Container Still in Customs’ Custody
Police are still investigating the case of a container in which marijuana, and weapons were found during a customs search last week. The Criminal Investigations Division has been questioning the ...Read more
Police are still investigating the case of a container in which marijuana, and weapons were found during a customs search last week. The Criminal Investigations Division has been questioning the ...Read more
Samoa’s Supreme Court Judge, Lesatele Rapi Va’ai, has adjourned the sentencing of prisoner Lautiti Tualima to next month, after hearing an apology from the defendant. Tualima admitted ...Read more
An Australian couple who were brutally attacked on their honeymoon in Samoa have finally got justice after the man who was on the run from prison pleaded guilty to all charges, including rape. But ...Read more
It’s summer time and across the island there’s a lot of fundraising going on. Acting Commissioner of Public Safety Vaimaga Maiava is reminding sports teams, schools, churches and other ...Read more
Defendant Panapa Lolo, who has been in custody for causing trouble at home because he was medically unwell has returned home to his mother. In court today, Panapa intelligently and voluntarily ...Read more
A former police lieutenant, Poe Leapai, was handed a three month jail sentence today for obtaining money by deceitful means. With tears Poe Leapai pleaded for forgiveness. He pleaded for one more ...Read more
Cognizant of the fact that the majority of the workforce in the territory are Samoan language speakers, the US Department of Labor has translated important documents with information on laws, ...Read more
Chief Justice Michael Kruse said the court doesn’t have a hard job to do in deciding sentences; it only becomes hard when the decision making is cluttered with emotions. Kruse was speaking at the ...Read more
Twenty-one-year-old Michael Schuster has been sentenced to 28 months in jail and fined $5,000 for the stabbing death of his cousin Aiesi Natuitasina last August. The well-spoken, clean-shaven, ...Read more
There was a rushed Senate hearing yesterday on an administration bill leftover from the last session dealing with repayment of the American Samoa Economic Development Authority bonds. During the ...Read more