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Monday 22 December 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Ashok Kumar (58) is serving seven years in prison for one count of trafficking in person, when he lured a 36-year-old woman from Fiji under the pretence of a potential hotel employment opportunity in Nuku’alofa, last year.
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Wednesday 17 December 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Piisi Finau (31) was found guilty on four counts that included dangerous driving, when he crashed a Range Rover into a power pole causing the deaths of two of his passengers and injuring another two, at Nualei in 2022.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Christopher Tupe (20) is serving one year and four months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm, when he attacked a 25-year-old complainant with a machete, after a fist fight at a bar in ‘Eua earlier this year.
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Thursday 11 December 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Siokatame Kupu (28) is serving six months in prison for possession of drugs utensils found on him in a police drugs operation at Matangiake earlier in May. He had just been released from prison before being sent back to prison for this offence.
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Wednesday 10 December 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A former senior customs officer, Mosese Katoa (58), is serving two years in prison on charges that included the importation of  prohibited goods. When firearms concealed in a crate arrived in Tonga in 2023 he also attempted to bribe another Customs Officer to avoid the scanner.
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Thursday 30 October 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Ursula Primrose Havili (34)  is serving one year’s imprisonment after being found guilty on numerous counts of obtaining $52,550 by false pretences from six customers that she would order their vehicles from Japan, in a web of deception.
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Thursday 30 October 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Repeat offender, Siosaia Lata Funaki, is serving five years and five months, in prison after pleading guilty to three counts that included theft of meat from a business in Ma’ufanga and armed robbery of a foreigner, who was punched in the mouth before his iPhone and money were stolen.
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Monday 15 September 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Siaosi Kalonihea (31) is serving two years and two months imprisonment, while his wife Louena 'Akau'ola (29) is serving one year in prison for possession of illicit drugs, after methamphetamine was seized in Lomaiviti last year
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Friday 12 September 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Sione Lapu’aho (56) is serving 10 months in prison for possession of 130.35 grams of cannabis at Fatai in February this year. He admitted that he was intending to supply the cannabis to others, when he was questioned by police.
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Thursday 11 September 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Nofo Lata He Lotu Fasi (29) is serving two years and four months imprisonment for three counts of serious housebreaking and theft of over $200,000 cash and loud speakers from a warehouse belonging to Luna'eva & Sons Company Limited in Malapo in February this year.
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Wednesday 10 September 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Anita Toutai’olepo (45) was sentenced to life imprisonment for the importation of 81.64 grams of methamphetamine, discovered inside a coffee bottle with a plastic-wrapped package in a drum shipped from her father in the United States in 2024.
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Monday 18 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
‘Ofa Tokelau, aged 53, is currently serving a six-month prison sentence for fraudulently obtaining $17,000 pa’anga. He deceived a customer by taking payment for a car that was never delivered.
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Friday 15 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fine Tevita Fifita (31), who is currently serving life imprisonment for the unlawful importation of 1157.4 grams of methamphetamine, was further sentenced on two charges of bribery after he offered money to a Police Officer and a Customs Officer in an attempt to conceal the illicit items imported.
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Monday 11 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Viliami Tukumoe’atu (28) is serving one year imprisonment for reckless driving under the influence of alcohol, causing the death of his father in Makaunga in January this year. The accused was driving at up to 140 kilometres per hour, when he struck an oncoming vehicle, lost control and crashed into an electric pole. “In passing sentence, you do not need me to tell you what this tragedy has unfolded,” the Lord Chief Justice said in passing sentence.
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Wednesday 6 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Penisoni Tu’ifua Angilau (37) was found guilty of four charges that included supplying 534.53 grams of methamphetamine to his second cousin to pack the illicit drug at her residence in Lomaiviti.
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Monday 4 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
‘Oto Langafo’ou Loloa (35) is serving 18 months in prison for two charges that included possession of 1238.71 grams of cannabis leaves and seeds, after police were informed that he was selling from his residence in Fua’amotu.
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Monday 4 August 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Saione Funaki (19) received a suspended sentence for common assault when he punched a 16 year old on the mouth, causing him to loose consciousness, when he was walking back to Nukuleka, after a social gathering in Makaunga on eastern Tongatapu.
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Wednesday 23 July 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
‘Aisea Pese Havea (42) is serving one year and eight months in prison for cultivation of cannabis plants seized at a home in Ha’ateiho by police officers, who were led there by a student who was reported to be in possession at Tonga College. 
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Tuesday 22 July 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Sione Kei’aloha Langi (31) and Viliami Pongi (42) were jailed for charges including serious housebreaking and theft of goods worth $20,440 from a business in Veitongo.
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Saturday 19 July 2025

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Penisimani Foukimoana Koli Moa (33) was imprisoned for one year and eight months, after he entered the Emerald Hotel and pointed a .22 pistol at the forehead of an employee. “The defendant foolishly thought it appropriate to carry in his trouser pocket an unlicensed .22 pistol, while out drinking,” stated the judge.
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