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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — District Court Judge, Fiti Sunia has granted the defense’s motion to reduce the bail amount for the employee of the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), who is accused of providing forged commercial driver’s permits to several local drivers from $10,000 to $5,000.
Matthew...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An employee of the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), a division of the Department of Public Safety (DPS), who is accused of providing forged commercial driver’s permits to several local drivers was arrested this week.
Matthew Tafua made his initial appearance before...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 38-year-old taxi driver accused of assaulting his wife while he was extremely intoxicated told the court that he is sorry for his actions and he will never do such things to his wife and children again.
The defendant was initially charged with public peace disturbance...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 51-year-old man from Alofau who was walking around with a machete in hand was arrested Monday.
Siaosi Uiese made his initial appearance in District Court yesterday morning before Judge Fiti Sunia. He is charged with private peace disturbance.
Sunia established a 'no...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than $10.42 million remained unexpended for fiscal year 2018 under the Governor’s Special Programs, according to the program’s FY 2018 financial report dated Sept. 17th, outlining the year-to-date balance of the projects to be funded under the current fiscal year....
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata voted on a series of ten bills marked up and passed by the Natural Resources Committee, and notably, co-sponsored and supported a bipartisan bill sponsored by Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) to designate Pacific World War II sites in Hawai’i as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 2018 Love Thy Neighbor project to help families in need is underway.
This is the second year for the program that kicked off last year with a Canned Food Drive Project to help the 1,850 furloughed employees of StarKist.
Project organizer Tapumanaia Galu Satele Jr....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the four DPS officers accused of illegal activities and misconduct at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) told the court yesterday that the allegations against him are true.
Okesene Alo, who is charged in two separate cases, appeared in High Court yesterday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Hawaiian Airlines passenger who entered American Samoa on May 22, 2018 in possession of an unlabeled bottle containing an active chemical in marijuana is now officially charged.
Brandon Peterson made his initial appearance before District Court Judge, Fiti Sunia...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — District Court Judge, Fiti Sunia yesterday ordered a young man to find a place to live, to avoid future problems between him and his father.
Donovan Fruean was arrested Monday night from his home in Leloaloa, after police assistance was sought by his father, who accused...