The passenger in a car pulled over by police for speeding is now facing charges of unlawful possession of drugs and paraphernalia.
Samoa News reports that 40-years-old Anetone Solomona had waived his right to a preliminary hearing in District Court, and his case has been bound over to High Court.
He is charged with one count of unlawful possession of meth and his bail is set at $5,000.
The government claims that on the early morning of October 19th, police pulled over a vehicle at Iliili for speeding.
A woman was at the wheel while Solomona and another man were sitting in the back seat.
As an officer was speaking to the driver, he noticed Solomona push something under his seat.
When Solomona removed his hand, the officer saw cut up straws lying on the floor where Solomona was sitting.
Police asked the three people in the vehicle to exit that the female driver and other male passenger obliged but Solomona resisted, saying he needed to go to his church choir practice.
Eventually he agreed to go to the Tafuna Police Station.
Solomona told officers he didn’t know anything about the drugs.
A police search found on the floor a small pouch containing a clear glass pipe with white crystalline substances and 7 empty stamp-sized baggies, and 3 empty medium-sized baggies.
The white crystalline substance tested positive for meth.
Two small stamp-sized baggies containing a white crystalline substance were inside his pants, which he said he bought with the baggies containing meth from a friend at the market. He said, the glass pipe didn’t belong to him.
Police didn’t find anything on the woman and other male passenger when they searched them.
They were both released after questioning pending further investigation.
