Woman, 32, arrested with 10.2g cannabis, 31 seeds and 95 rounds in Liahona
A 32-year-old woman from Liahona, Tonga, was arrested on 10 April 2019 after police found 20 packs of cannabis weighing 10.20 grams, 31 cannabis seeds and 95 rounds of live ammunition in her vehicle. She was charged with possession of the drugs and ammunition and remanded in police custody to appear in the Magistrates Court.
Police in Tonga arrested a 32-year-old woman from the Liahona area on 10 April
2019 after finding cannabis and live ammunition with her.[1]Officers seized
the cannabis, 31 cannabis seeds and the ammunition from her vehicle.[2]The 20
packs of cannabis weighed 10.20 grams in all.[2]
Deputy Police Commissioner Pelenatita Fe’ao Vaisuai said the accused had been
charged with possession of the illicit drugs and ammunition.[2]The woman was
remanded in police custody to appear at the Magistrates Court at a later date.[2]
Vaisuai commended Houma’s Community Patrol Volunteers for their vigilance and
for working closely with police in the arrest.[2]The commissioner said the
trust and confidence of communities let police work with them to hold to account
people involved in supplying and distributing illicit drugs.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The submitted Matangi Tonga page is paywalled after its opening sentence; the details of the seizure and charge come from the newspaper's own print view of the same article.
The sources give no weight for the 31 seeds separately and no street value for the cannabis.
The 20 packs are described as 10.20 grams in total, a small quantity consistent with personal possession; the sources give no indication of intended distribution.
The sources do not say whether Houma's Community Patrol Volunteers spotted the woman or the vehicle, only that their work with police led to the arrest.
No plea, bail decision, trial date or sentence was reported, and the woman was not named.
The sources say the 31 seeds were seized, not destroyed; they are counted under the tracker's plants and seeds fields, and no opened source says what happened to them afterwards.
Tonga Police arrested a 43-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy after tracing reported cannabis distribution near a school to a home in Ha'ateiho. Officers seized three cannabis plants weighing 2,300 grams, four rounds of ammunition and drug utensils, and both suspects were charged with possession of illicit drugs.
Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 3Cannabis 2.3 kg
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.
Tonga Police arrested and charged two men with possessing cannabis and a utensil during a routine road-stop on 6 June 2022. The announcement came three days later in a brief police notice published by Matangi Tonga, which released no weight, place or court details.
Tonga Police and soldiers arrested four people at a COVID-19 lockdown checkpoint in Poutaha, Tofoa, on 30 March 2020. Officers seized a total of 639.68 grams of cannabis in the vehicle stop and a follow-up house search.