Ex-employee of AG’s Office Charged
A former employee of the Attorney General’s Office, Loimata Savea, has been charged with stealing, embezzlement and public servant acceding to corruption for allegedly receiving money from a ...Read more
Crime
Man Charged in 2016 Machete Assault
A 50 year old man has been charged with first and third degree assault for allegedly attacking his brother with a machete back in 2016. Timote Afemui made his initial appearance in District Court ...Read more
Former Employees of Samoa Sports Lotto Charged
A number of former employees ofhow many covid have now been charged for fraud and theft as servants. A public notice published by Samoa Sports Lotto, said staff had been referred to police ...Read more
Call to Prohibit Alcohol on Repatriation Flights
Samoa’s Police Commissioner has called for a ban on alcohol being brought in by passengers arriving on the repatriation flights from New Zealand. TV1Samoa reported the call from Fuiavailili Egon ...Read more
Homeland Security investigates drug bust in Samoa
Members of the public have expressed alarm to news of the drugs that were intercepted by Samoa customs at Faleolo Airport. They were found on a 24 year old Vietnamese woman who was traveling to the ...Read more
Business owner spends weekend in jail
A local businesswoman spent the weekend in jail for third degree assault in connection with an incident last year in which she slapped her son’s now ex- girlfriend. Tulagafou Nofoagatoto’a, ...Read more
Territory bound woman busted in Samoa
Customs officers in Samoa intercepted pills containing heroine and cocaine from a Vietnamese woman traveling from Singapore via Fiji to American Samoa. The woman landed in Samoa on Sunday Samoa ...Read more
Court says CBD oil is illegal
The High Court has ruled that possession of the chemical cannabidiol or CBD is illegal in American Samoa under the territory’s drug laws. The ruling by Associate Justice Fiti Sunia, Associate ...Read more
Escapee still on the run
The manhunt continues for escapee Thomas Siaumau. Sources tell KHJ News that guards at the Territorial Correctional Facility first became aware that Siaumau was not in his cell on Wednesday night. ...Read more
Thomas Siaumau escapes from TCF
Thomas Siaumau, who is serving a 30-year sentence for shooting at a police vehicle with an officer behind the wheel, has escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility. It’s believed that ...Read more
