{"version":1,"id":"to","name":"Tonga","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/to/","count":3,"totals":{"reports":3,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":2,"raid":0,"arrest":1,"prosecution":0,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2025-01-06","reports":[{"id":"tonga-hauloto-drug-arrests-2025","code":"CET-H2FAQS","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tonga-hauloto-drug-arrests-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/H2FAQS/","date":"2025-01-06","country":"to","country_name":"Tonga","place":null,"coordinates":[-20.416,-174.8],"precision":"country","type":"arrest","also":[],"title":"Tonga police arrest six people with small amounts of cannabis and methamphetamine","summary":"In two raids on a bush allotment at Hauloto on 2 and 6 January 2025, Tonga Police arrested six people. In the first they seized 21 packs of cannabis weighing 8.17 g and five packs of methamphetamine; in the second, two packs of cannabis weighing 1.54 g and 27 packs of methamphetamine.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"tonga-hauloto-drug-arrests-2025","sources":[{"title":"Tongatapu couple among six arrested with meth, cannabis (9 January 2025)","url":"https://kanivatonga.co.nz/2025/01/tongatapu-couple-among-six-arrested-with-meth-cannabis/","publisher":"Kaniva Tonga","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"tonga-vavau-cannabis-bust-2018","code":"CET-VM5AR3","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tonga-vavau-cannabis-bust-2018/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/VM5AR3/","date":"2018-09-24","country":"to","country_name":"Tonga","place":null,"coordinates":[-20.416,-174.8],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Tonga seizes 2,665 cannabis plants in Vava'u","summary":"Police seized 2,665 cannabis plants at Mataika in Vava'u on 24 September 2018 and charged seven people. Media called it Tonga's largest cannabis bust at the time, though a 2017 raid at Matahau had found 3,894 plants.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"tonga-vavau-cannabis-bust-2018","sources":[{"title":"Seven in court on Tonga's biggest cannabis bust (2 October 2018)","url":"https://matangitonga.to/2018/10/02/seven-court-tongas-biggest-cannabis-bust","publisher":"Matangi Tonga","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"tonga-matahau-cannabis-plantation-2017","code":"CET-BMMX3P","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tonga-matahau-cannabis-plantation-2017/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/BMMX3P/","date":"2017-05-04","country":"to","country_name":"Tonga","place":null,"coordinates":[-20.416,-174.8],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Tonga seizes 3,894 cannabis plants at Matahau","summary":"Police seized 3,894 cannabis plants from six bush allotments at Matahau and Fou'i on 4 May 2017 and arrested eight men. Four were sentenced on 7 June 2018. It appears to have been larger than the Vava'u bust that media later called Tonga's biggest.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"tonga-matahau-cannabis-plantation-2017","sources":[{"title":"Eight accused in drug bust kept in custody (9 May 2017)","url":"https://matangitonga.to/2017/05/09/eight-accused-drug-bust-kept-custody","publisher":"Matangi Tonga","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Cannabis cultivator and teen assistants jailed (7 June 2018)","url":"https://matangitonga.to/2018/06/07/cannabis-cultivator-and-teen-assistants-jailed","publisher":"Matangi Tonga","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}