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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]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Maifea_0939.jpg?itok=_jvE2Fmd "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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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An elderly woman from Pago Pago has being charged with one count of tampering with a witness, a class D felony, punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years, and a fine up to $5,000, or both.
Mao Uele, who is out on a $5,000 surety bond made her initial appearance before...
![Afa Fuimaono outside of the Court after he was sentenced last Friday for using a machete to strike another man three times during a land dispute in December of last year. During sentencing, Chief Justice Michael Kruse pointed out that sadly the land belongs to neither men — yet the incident has had such a negative impact on both men's lives. [photo by AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Afa%20Fuimaono_0940.jpg?itok=1RGokuBt "Afa Fuimaono outside of the Court after he was sentenced last Friday for using a machete to strike another man three times during a land dispute in December of last year. During sentencing, Chief Justice Michael Kruse pointed out that sadly the land belongs to neither men — yet the incident has had such a negative impact on both men's lives. [photo by AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “There are many non violent ways to mediate disagreements that can occur from land disputes in American Samoa, and a machete is not one of them.”
This was the statement assistant attorney general Woodrow Pengelly gave to the Judges during the sentencing of a 48-year-old...
![Marty Tanielu has been sentenced to 5 years probation for two separate drug cases. He stole from his mother to buy drugs. [photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Marty%20Tanielu_0213.jpg?itok=o-SPbaBl "Marty Tanielu has been sentenced to 5 years probation for two separate drug cases. He stole from his mother to buy drugs. [photo: AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An American Samoa man who stole his mother’s belongings, then sold them to get money to buy methamphetamine (ice) told the court he is truly remorseful for what he did, and he wishes he had a chance to apologize to his mother and have her forgive him.
Marty Tanielu, who...
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Pago Pago, American Samoa — An over-stayer who is serving a 28-month jail term at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) was in High Court last week for a probation review hearing.
Loimata Mika, 28, entered American Samoa on a 7-day visitor's permit in 2016. He was in the territory illegally...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Associate Justice Elvis P. Patea has ordered the sponsor of a man from Samoa who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend to come forward and fulfill his responsibility under ASG Immigration laws, by paying the defendant’s return airfare to Samoa and restitution...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 55-year-old man from Leloaloa was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Nu’uuli after allegedly raping and molesting a 10-year-old girl several times. According to court documents, the man is alleged to have given the girl money each time after the alleged sexual encounters...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of assaulting his girlfriend is facing three counts of third degree assault and one count of public peace disturbance — all misdemeanors.
Besides allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, Aveia Levasa is also accused of assaulting a cousin who was trying to...