Twenty-Eight Months for Armed Robbery
Nineteen year old Faasii Aupaau will serve 28 months in jail in connection with an armed robbery earlier this year. He is to pay a $1,000 fine after he serves 6 months in jail. He must also find a ...Read more
Nineteen year old Faasii Aupaau will serve 28 months in jail in connection with an armed robbery earlier this year. He is to pay a $1,000 fine after he serves 6 months in jail. He must also find a ...Read more
A former employee of the American Samoa Power Authority was sentenced Friday to 7 years behind bars for embezzlement. Makerita Leituane, charged with misappropriating debit meter payments at the ...Read more
A 19 year old man was sentenced today for molesting a 12-year-old girl. Apelu Saito Lilo was sentenced to 28 months in jail and after he’s released he will serve a seven year probation ...Read more
A man from Samoa, Muaiga Siatiu, changed his plea to guilty at a hearing in the High Court on Friday Initially charged with four felony counts of child molestation, sodomy , deviate sexual assault ...Read more
A man convicted of second degree assault for attacking his wife with a machete was sentenced today to 20 months in prison. Chief Justice Michael Kruse recalled that while Ioane Gali used the handle ...Read more
Loimata Mika pleaded guilty today to second degree burglary in connection with an incident last year in Aua. The defendant faced charges of first degree burglary, 3rd degree assault and ...Read more
Chief Justice Michael Kruse was not happy to learn that the attorney of record for a case that was heard in High Court today, that of defendant John Tuupo, was a no show in court. The attorney Mark ...Read more
The $1 million lawsuit by Suitupe Misa against the Ministry of Police, Police Commissioner Fuiavailii Egon Keil and former Minister Sala Pinati will now head into a full court hearing. The lawsuit ...Read more
A question that Public Defender Douglas Fiaui fielded during a House hearing about challenges faced by his office was whether the Probation Office should be removed from the courts and made to ...Read more
In court news, a man facing sexual charges was sentenced today. Hilton Forlorn Muasau’s initial charges before he took the plea deal in July this year were rape, sexual assault in the first ...Read more