Results for Police and Crime

The death of an eight-year-old girl in Nuku’alofa last week, an inquest has confirmed was a suicide. It is the youngest known suicide death in Tonga.

Three men are recovering in Vaiola Hospital after their car crashed into a power pole at Vaini on Sunday night, November 11.

Two men of foreign nationality, reportedly from New Zealand, were arrested and charged in relation to the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition confiscated on a yacht in Nuku'alofa. One has also been charged with indecent assault.

Tonga Police are investigating the theft of electronic goods valued at more than $10,000 pa’anga from a home in Ma’ufanga on October 19.

A woman is in hospital after injuring her leg when she was allegedly hit by a vehicle on Vuna Road, Nuku‘alofa, on Saturday night, October 20 after the televised Mate Ma’a Tonga match against Australia had ended.

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.

Four men have been charged with possession of methamphetamine this month, in four separate arrests on Tongatapu.

More than $20,000 pa’anga worth of various goods were reportedly stolen from the Langafonua ‘a Fafine Tonga centre, in Nuku’alofa last month.

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