methamphetamine
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Far North Mayor Moko Tepania has a blunt message for shop owners selling pipes for smoking meth — stop it now.
While methamphetamine is a banned class A drug with stiff penalties for dealing and possession, meth pipes are sold openly in vape stores, $2 shops and dairies...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Supreme Court of Samoa has rendered a sentence of up to 4 years and 6 months on Filipo Filipo for possession of scales and utensils, and importing 99 grams of methamphetamine (aisa) from American Samoa.
The 38 year-old Filipo had entered an earlier guilty plea to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sheehan Sam Seigafo, a former customs officer, has been convicted of bribery, attempted bribery of a public servant, importation of contraband and undeclared merchandise, and tampering with evidence. He was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison.
This case arises from...
Apia, SAMOA — (28 December, 2025) Police in the Independent State of Samoa have intensified their campaign against the spread of methamphetamine (meth), launching a series of coordinated raids that resulted in the arrest of 17 suspects — both men and women — between December 16 and 23.
Of the 17...
Apia, SAMOA — (December 15, 2025) A combined total of 6.173 kilograms of methamphetamine, smuggled from American Samoa, was intercepted by Samoa Customs officials in two separate operations at the independent state’s international air and sea ports over the weekend.
In a joint press release issued...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Customs officers have intercepted 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed inside a box of frozen chicken, after a targeted operation on Saturday uncovered the illicit shipment arriving from American Samoa.
In a statement, the Ministry of Customs and Revenue...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A courier for the American Samoa Power Authority, Chris Seui, has been charged after picking up a package from his personal mail at the post office that contained baggies of methamphetamine.
Seui is facing three criminal charges: possession of an uncontrolled substance (...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A transnational crime expert says New Zealand and Australia's status as the "cash cows" of the Pacific methamphetamine market is a driving factor in the drug crisis facing the region.
Jose Sousa-Santos, associate professor of practice at the University of Canterbury's...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — She asks us to call her Lala — a pseudonym — to keep her safe.
There's a lot on the line as Lala is heavily involved on a number of levels in Samoa's meth trade.
"It’s like everywhere, it's flooding the town, kids are taking meth," she tells us.
It's no secret that Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean on Tuesday voiced his deep concern over claims made by the Samoa Police that American Samoa is the primary route for methamphetamine entering the Independent State of Samoa, and that children are being used to sell the drug.
Tuaolo...