Results for cannabis

Five men who were arrested on November 15 after illicit drugs and a pistol were seized in a vehicle during a police routine traffic stop on Hihifo Road and at a property in Fangaloto, appeared at the Fasi Magistrate's Court on November 26.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, November 7 after being found in possession of a firearm, ammunition and cannabis at a road in Sopu.

Thirty-seven cannabis packets and cannabis branches were seized from a home at an area called Hauloto, situated near Liahona in Tongatapu on October 17.

There are now seven accused charged in relation to the seizure of 2665 cannabis plants from a bush allotment in Mataika, Vava’u on September 24, Tonga’s largest cannabis bust to date.

Ninety-six packets of cannabis and cash were seized in the arrest of 10 people in Malapo, eastern Tongatapu on Saturday, September 22.

Vainikolo Selu, a serving prisoner, was sentenced to an additonal two-years 10-months imprisonment, after being convicted of possessing methamphetamine and cannabis, which he smuggled into Hu'atolitoli Prison in November last year.

A 48-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the seizure of 46 cannabis plants from a bush allotment in ‘Eua on Monday, August 13.

A search warrant carried out by police was found inadmissible and excluded from evidence to be called in an illicit drug trial at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa, because the search was carried out in an unlawful manner.

Two men have been charged after they were arrested in possession of methamphetamine and cannabis at a home in Sopu on July 11.