Chair of the Pacific Transnational Crime Network says drugs in the Pacific traced to South America
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —The Chair of the Pacific Transnational Crime Network (PTCN) — who is also Samoa's Police Commissioner, Auapa'au Logoitino Filipo — reports that the smuggling of



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