FB pix lead to weed arrest

Illegal enterprise: One of the pictures circulating online of the marijuana field in Ngunzun township near Mandalay. — AFP

Yangon: Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay.

Pictures of the fields of weed started circulating on the platform last week – a rare sight online in a country where police photos of seized heroin and methamphetamine are far more common.