Results for Police and Crime

Tonga Police are investigating a counterfeit money circulation after a counterfeit $20 pa’anga banknote was reported by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga.

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.

A four year-old boy died last night 7 February after sustaining serious injuries from a road accident on Saturday, 6 February at Tu'anekivale in Vava'u.

A 36-year-old Chinese man is in Vaiola Hospital with multiple injuries after he was violently beaten up by four persons also of Chinese origin during an alleged housebreaking at his home in Pili, Tongatapu on 19 January.

Since a Tonga Police Task Force investigation began in August last year, 11 people have been charged in relation to alleged fraudulent activities over the issuing of Tongan passports. While the investigation continues in Nuku'alofa, the Police Commissioner Stephen Caldwell said today that public speculation was "unhelpful" and he called for restraint in public commentary through the media in order to allow a fair trial of the accused.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged with injuring two women, one of them seriously, whom he allegedly shot during a confrontation at Vaipua Bridge in Vava'u, early Saturday morning, 23 January.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to death of a 36-year-old man whom he allegedly stabbed during an incident in Fua’amotu on Sunday night, 17 January.

Tonga Police are still searching for two men who robbed a Chinese shop in Fasi on Saturday night, 9 January, allegedly using an air gun.

Police are searching for two men who robbed a Chinese shop in Fasi on Saturday night, 9 January, allegedly using an air gun.