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Pati Lepou

Pati Lepou (left), Joseph Iakopo (right)
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two inmates convicted of escape from confinement — a second time — while serving their sentences received a huge break from the High Court last week when Chief Justice Michael Kruse ordered that their new sentences would run concurrently with the detention that they’re...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The third co-defendant allegedly involved in the case where a Correctional Officer (C.O) at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) and a woman were arrested and charged last month on the allegation that they helped each other to smuggle a large quantity of illegal...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The separate cases of a mother and her son have been continued until May of this year after they entered not guilty pleas to the charges against them. Josephine Siaumau-Gauta and her son Solomona Gauta appeared in High Court this week for arraignment, after they waived...
TCF — Territorial Correctional Facility
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Correctional Officer (C.O) at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) was arrested last week on the allegation that he helped to smuggle a large quantity of illegal drugs and cell phones into the TCF. The government alleged that a woman (her named was mentioned in...
(left-right) Elliott Siaumau Jr, Thomas Siaumau, Pati Lepou, Gabriel Tinae
  Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government’s case against four inmates at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) accused of escaping from confinement last month has been bound over to High Court, — for arraignment this morning — after District Court Judge Elvis P. Patea found probable cause...
Territorial Correctional Facility, TCF
Pago Pago, AMERIAN SAMOA — An inmate who is serving a 20-year sentence for escaping from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in January 2010 and assaulting an ANZ security guard is charged with escape from confinement — again. The government claims that Pati Lepou allegedly escaped from the...