Results for Police and Crime

A man in his 20s has been charged with grievous bodily harm after he allegedly assaulted his wife on Monday, 20 July at Popua. The couple are visiting Tonga from the United States.

Sioeli ‘Aholelei Finau (24) a soldier with His Majesty’s Armed Forces is the victim who died after he was allegedly stabbed with a knife during an incident in the Central Business District on Saturday night, 11 July.

The bodies of two friends who drowned at a beach in Veitongo on Saturday 11 July when one tried to save the other in strong currents - have been recovered.

A 32-year-old local man was found dead from gunshot wounds outside the Treasure Island Resort on ‘Eueiki Island in Vava’u on Saturday evening, 6 June.

Tonga Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into the fence of the Royal Palace in Nuku’alofa, this morning, 5 June.

A 58-year-old man has been charged with grievous bodily harm for allegedly shooting and wounding two of his relatives at a plantation in Lavengatonga, Tongatapu, on Friday 29 May.

Rev. Sioeli Finau (63) from Nukunuku is the fisherman who remains missing since heading out to Malinoa Island, off Tongatapu on Monday, 11 May. Police are appealing to fishing boats to report any sightings of him and the missing 25ft boat.

Three men who were found dead in different plantations in Tongatapu and Vava’u in early May, are reported to have died from heart attacks, said a police spokesperson in Nuku'alofa today.

A 71-year-old mother Tevunga Vaea, her daughter and daughter-in-law died in a tragic car crash on Saturday night 9 May, in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.