An arrest has been made in relation to four armed robberies at Chinese shops in Houmakelikao, Kapeta, Tofoa and Maúfanga that began Saturday 9 January 2021. Tonga Police said they were called to respond to incidents involving two men wearing masks who entered the shops armed with a machete and a piece of metal.
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Tuesday 12 January 2021
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Nuku'alofa

Wednesday 5 December 2018
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A 16-year-old boy who assaulted and robbed a Chinese shopkeeper in February this year was discharged without conviction by a Supreme Court judge on November 26 in Nuku'alofa who considered that: “a conviction for such a serious offence as robbery will be far more detrimental than the injury and theft he committed to the complainant."

Wednesday 24 October 2018
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A break in at a home in Ma’ufanga targeted valuable Tongan mats worth more than $3,000 pa'anga on October 15.

Wednesday 3 October 2018
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A robbery at a home in Hala’ovave in Tongatapu targeted valuable Tongan mats and other handicrafts.

Wednesday 27 September 2017
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Chalice and altar wine were among other holy communion supplies that were stolen from the Basilica of St Anthony of Padua in Nuku’alofa, on September 22.

Thursday 14 September 2017
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A male suspect was arrested by police for allegedly beating up and robbing a 32-year-old man of Asian origin on September 5, at Pea. Police are seeking a second man who was involved.

Wednesday 14 June 2017
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Four male teenagers have been arrested and charged in relation to an armed robbery at a Chinese shop in Tofoa on Saturday night, June 10.

Monday 15 May 2017
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Tevita Vaka (28) is serving an accumulative sentence of 12-years imprisonment for a series of violent robberies in 2015-16 in Nuku'alofa. A Supreme Court judge who viewed "the callous, ruthless nature of the offending" said this was a deterrent sentence to protect people from being the victims of predatory criminal acts in their homes.

Wednesday 5 April 2017
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Two men have been arrested and charged with theft, after snatching a purse from a Chinese shop owner in Nuku’alofa on 1 April.

Monday 6 March 2017
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A 39-year-old woman in the US, Zoranna Mapapalangi (reportedly of Tongan ethnicity), has been sentenced to 6 years imprisonment by a Californian court for the robbery and elder abuse of a 75-year-old woman. Zoranna was sentenced last Tuesday, March 28.

Wednesday 8 February 2017
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A 21-year-old man of Tongan descent, James Afuakimoana Tamoua, has been arrested follwing an armed robbery and police chase in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday. The accused along with a 15-year-old boy are accused of robbing a shop and holding up the store clerk at gunpoint.

Wednesday 1 June 2016
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Two men have been arrested and charged with a laptop robbery that injured a shopkeeper on By-Pass Road in Pahu on Saturday evening, 28 May.

Wednesday 4 May 2016
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A man who threatened and robbed a taxi driver of around $300 cash in Fangaloto, Tongatapu on Friday night 29 April is being sought by Tonga Police.

Thursday 11 February 2016
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The life of a Korean couple in their late 50s, the Lees who have called Tonga home for the past 24 years, was shattered when their house was broken into in January and again last week when they were attacked and robbed as they returned home in the evening at Kolomotu'a.

Friday 22 January 2016
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Burglars stole Tongan handicrafts worth around $5,800 pa'anga from the Catholic Women's League centre at Ma'ufanga on Tuesday night, 19 January.

Monday 11 May 2015
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Four men have received prison terms for offences related to a home invasion in Sopu on June 10, 2014, where a woman was robbed, tied up and raped. Two other men have received suspended sentences for their roles in the housebreaking

Monday 17 November 2014
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Two men were arrested after a prison warden's son was attacked with a machete during a robbery inside a warden's home at the Hu‘atolitoli Prison compound in Vaini on Sunday November 9.

Thursday 10 July 2014
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Five men have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery in relation to a robbery at a home in Sopu on 11 June, where a woman occupant was allegedly raped.

Friday 13 June 2014
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A Police investigation continues into the housebreaking, robbery and rape of a Tongan woman at her home in Sopu in the early morning of Wednesday, June 11.

Wednesday 11 June 2014
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The Tonga Police are hunting four to five male suspects who broke into a home in Sopu early this morning and tied up the occupant, a woman in her 40's who was home alone. One of the men is alleged to have raped the woman during the robbery.
