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Joe Togitogi
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The four inmates accused of escaping from custody appeared in District Court for their initial appearance.
The four inmates include Joe Togitogi; Ryan Toga Pite; Joseph Iosefa Iakopo and Asofa Titio, and are each charged with one count of escape from confinement, a class...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police brutality and inhumane treatment inside the prison walls are some of the reasons why prisoners escape from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in Tafuna.These were the words from the three inmates who were convicted by the court for escaped from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Halfway through his Change of Plea hearing last Friday, Joe Togitogi seemed confused and therefore, Chief Justice Michael Kruse continued the matter to Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.
Togitogi, 25, is a defendant in two separate cases, for which he is facing charges of escape...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the four inmates charged for escaping from confinement in January is going to jail. Timata Naea, 21-years-old, was ordered by Acting Associate Justice Elvis P. Patea to serve 28 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of his 7-year...
![A look inside a cell at the new prison facility at the Territorial Correction Facility (TCF) in Tafuna. [photo by AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/TCF%20new%20cell_0321.jpg?itok=E8rLHx1u "A look inside a cell at the new prison facility at the Territorial Correction Facility (TCF) in Tafuna. [photo by AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The beating and abuse of two inmates who escaped twice from prison this year is allegedly continuing inside the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in Tafuna.
Samoa News received numerous phone calls last week — straight from some of the inmates inside the TCF,...