Three arrested with 100 cannabis packets at a Ngele'ia home
Tonga Police arrested two men and an 18-year-old woman at a house in Ngele'ia on 21 November 2018 and seized 100 packets of cannabis weighing 75.44 grams, already packed for distribution. All three were charged with possession and held to appear in the Fasi Magistrate's Court.
Three people were arrested after police found 100 small packets of cannabis,
already packed for distribution, at a home in Ngele’ia on 21 November 2018.[1]Tonga Police’s Drugs Enforcement Taskforce, with police dogs, executed a search
warrant at the home early in the morning of that day.[2]Officers seized75.44
grams of cannabis in the 100 packets, the police statement said.[2]The three
were two men from Ngele’ia aged 31 and 22 and an 18-year-old woman from Fahefa.[2]
The two men and the woman were charged with possession of the illicit drug.[3]All three were in police custody to appear at the Fasi Magistrate’s Court on 27
November 2018.[2]Acting Chief Superintendent Tevita Vailea of the Central
Police Station said police would keep working with the community to prevent the
harm illicit drugs cause and asked anyone with information about drug offending
to contact the nearest police station or ring 23417 or 922.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The live Matangi Tonga page shows only its lead sentence behind a subscription notice; the full text with the weight, ages and court date was read on the site's print view and corroborated by Nepituno.
The Nepituno account is credited to Tonga Police and reproduces the police statement, so it is not fully independent of Matangi Tonga's account.
No court outcome after the 27 November 2018 Fasi Magistrate's Court mention was found.
The cannabis weight is given as 75.44 grams; no street value was published.
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