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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Loe Iopu is held on bail of $10,000 on drugs charges in relation to a police raid in Pago Pago earlier this month.
Iopu is one of the six defendants charged from the raid and he appeared last week before the court. The other co-defendant’s are Meriko Lomu, Desmond Tupa’i...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government’s case against a 27-year-old from Tafuna, who is one of the two defendants in an assault case that surfaced last year is going to trial after both sides failed to reach a solution.
Tafagamanu Vaili is facing one felony count of assault in the first degree...
Apia, SAMOA — A police constable in Samoa, Lefiu Aiga Fono, has appeared in court on charges of murder and manslaughter following the death of man in a stone throwing incident at Faleasi'u village early this year.
Another man, who is a relative of the accused, has also been charged.
The policeman...
![The body of the man found at Savalalo. [Photo: Facebook]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/images%7Ccms-image-000041570.jpg?itok=wf-anXeT "The body of the man found at Savalalo. [Photo: Facebook]")
Apia, SAMOA — A man in his 40s was found dead behind the Savalalo fish market on Saturday morning.
Witnesses told the Samoa Observer the man was found with only his under garments.
One of them, Sina Ulugia, said there were no visible injuries.
They suspect that the man drowned.
Phone calls and...