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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who unlawfully entered a house at night and attempted to rape a 15-year-old girl last year was sentenced to 28 months in prison, as a condition of a 7-year probation sentence. William Otto, 24, was initially charged with second-degree burglary and first-degree...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —  Chief Justice Michael Kruse told the government attorney during Tolupo Hodges Jr. hearing last week that maybe this is the right time to ask the Fono to tidy up the statute concerning probation revocations. Hodges Jr. was scheduled to appear in court last week for his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the co-defendants in the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) case has pled guilty. Aviu Asofa Titio, 20, admits that on June 8, 2016 while detained at the JDC, he threatened one of the government’s key witnesses who was also detained at the JDC — to stop her from...
Chief Justice Michael Kruse [SN file photo]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 24-year-old man who was given a second chance by the court to redeem himself by attending drug and alcohol counseling to help with his problem is back in jail. Methodist Kuka Mika appeared in High Court last week for a preliminary examination (PX) for violating...
Outside of American Samoa High Court building.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The woman accused of stealing a special fine mat (afuelo) — used to cover coffins —from another woman and then selling it to a Tongan man for $300 to buy food for her children, has pled guilty. The government charged Sauleli’a, also known as Li’a Amituana’i in two...
Chief Justice Michael Kruse [SN file photo]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 19-year-old male who was accused of burglarizing - with several juveniles - a store in Tafuna, told the court he didn't keep any of the stolen items, just the cash. Vilitoni Vi was initially charged with first degree burglary and stealing - both class C felonies - in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —  Armed detectives of the Department of Public Safety- Vice & Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant on two homes in Pago Pago last week, confiscating drugs, drug paraphernalia and cash. Three individuals — two men and a female — were arrested as a result. They are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the High Court sentenced Sefulu Maifea last Friday to 28 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), as a condition of a 7-year probation term for embezzlement, he once again appeared in District Court yesterday morning for a Probation Revocation hearing...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 21-year-old man accused of selling marijuana joints at the cannery last year has pled guilty. Detectives from the DPS Vice & Narcotics Unit arrested Paulo Paulo Jr. on Sept. 22, 2017 after receiving information from StarKist Samoa employees that a man was selling...
Former Customs Office supervisor, Sefulu Maifea making his way to the TCF van after he was sentenced by the court to serve 28 months in jail for stealing over $11,000 from the American Samoa Government. [photo: AF]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The former Customs Office supervisor who breached the trust of the American Samoa Government (ASG) when he embezzled over $11,000 he was supposed to deposit with the Treasury Department — is going to jail. Sefulu Maifea was sentenced by the High Court last week to serve...

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