Results for Police and Crime

Tonga Customs has joined the Pacific Dog Detector Program and welcomed its first certified dog handler, Customs Officer 'Amini Fonua and his detector dog detector "Fred" from New Zealand.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the seizure of 27.76 grams of methamphetamine at Ma'ufanga on 12 May.

Three people have been arrested in two separate drugs busts that seized methamphetamine and cannabis on Tongatapu this week.

An 82-year-old grandmother and her five-year-old grand-daughter died in a house fire at Tofoa on Saturday morning, 6 May, Tonga Police reported.

Tonga Police attended a Pacific Forensic Working Group meeting consisting of 11 forensic police leaders across the Pacific in Canberra last week.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 44-year-old man in Lapaha on eastern Tongatapu earlier this month.

Siale Havea (45) of Houma remains missing sea since he first went out diving or underwater fishing at Fahefa, Tongatapu on Friday night, 31 March. A Police Search and Rescue continues, however an aerial search of the Houma coastline by a police drone has not discovered anything to date.

A 31-year-old man from Ha'asini was arrested after a police pursuit, after he was alleged to have been distributing illicit drugs. Two others, including a 14-year-old teen were arrested later.

A 25-year-old man was arrested in relation to the seizure of illicit drugs, including 1.81 grams of methamphetamine at a bush allotment, on 23 February.