Governor Signs Scanner Bill into Law
Just in time for Christmas, business owners and anyone who imports merchandise or equipment for commercial purposes, which go through customs new scanners, will be paying new fees for the use of ...Read more
Just in time for Christmas, business owners and anyone who imports merchandise or equipment for commercial purposes, which go through customs new scanners, will be paying new fees for the use of ...Read more
The customs scanners are scheduled to arrive in the territory towards the end of next month. While the original plan was to get six scanners, Chief of Customs Moetulu’i Fuiava Sipili tells ...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
Immigration Officers working after hours at the port and airport have not been paid overtime since 2013. Acting Chief Immigration Officer, Mrs. Fagamalama Fualaau informed US Department of Labor ...Read more
Police investigators are raising issue with what they perceive to be an overlap in jurisdiction and authority by the Chief of Customs into police work which in their view is undermining police ...Read more
In a follow up to our story earlier this week about customs confiscating 180 cartons of cigarettes which were undeclared: Chief of Customs Moetului Sipili Fuiava says for now they are ...Read more
The High Court has taken under advisement a motion by drug defendant Brian Benjamin Loma for suppression of evidence that the government collected when he was taken into custody. A customs dog ...Read more
Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale has taken issue with a story that KHJ News broadcast last week wherein customs and police officers said that the aggressive approach in the prosecution of ...Read more
Acting Commissioner of Public Safety Vaimaga Maiava says police have not been notified about a drug find at the airport two weeks ago. He says he inquired with the Criminal Investigations Division ...Read more
Pago Pago International Airport is normally quiet on a Saturday morning, but not last Saturday. There was singing, clapping, cheering when American Samoa’s delegation to the Pacific Arts Festival ...Read more