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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 1, 2024, the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) received a call regarding a hit and run accident in Mesepa, involving a vehicle and a motorcycle.
The suspect — Pati Lafaele, the alleged driver of the vehicle — was arrested and charged with the following:
Count 1:...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 29, 2024, Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) received several calls from concerned neighbors regarding a peace disturbance near their apartment complex in Ottoville. A woman was apprehended when police officers discovered an intoxicated minor vomiting in her house...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 27, 2024, a woman reported a man for sleeping at her house without her consent who then threatened her with a golf club for not feeding him.
Fa’atau Kome was arrested and charged with the following:
Count 1: Private Peace Disturbance — a class C misdemeanor...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 28, 2024, a woman contacted Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) to report a man who allegedly broke their sliding glass door in the front of their home in Fagaalu.
Tino Tapua’ialupe was arrested and later charged with the following:
Count 1: Property Damage in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 12, 2024, the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) received multiple calls from individuals at Faleniu reporting a fight that had broken out over a land dispute. It was revealed that gunshots were fired.
When police officers arrived at the scene in Faleniu, it was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 13, 2024, Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) received a call from a female reporting her uncle had allegedly assaulted her.
The defendant was arrested and later charged with the following:
Count 1: Private Peace Disturbance — a class C misdemeanor punishable by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 6, 2023, at about 9:00pm, the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) received a call from a distraught father seeking assistance regarding a fight that broke out at his home in Seetaga between his two sons — Apelu Vilisinimisa and Pati Taaloga.
Both were charged with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 13, 2024, a man contacted the Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) to report that one of his co-workers, Junior Sootaga had allegedly assaulted him at their workplace in Fagatogo at the Harbor Maritime facility.
The defendant was later arrested and charged with the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At about midnight on January 10, 2024, a woman contacted the FPS regarding an alleged assault on her by her husband at their home in Amouli. The woman who was five months pregnant at the time, claimed to have been hit on the head with an electric fan by the defendant....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 8, 2024, at about 2:10pm as police officers conducted their routine patrol after schools were released, “bystanders waved down the officers and yelled out that the kids were about to fight.”
Police officers then noticed a male individual, who is well-known to...