By Lagi Keresoma<\/p>\n
APIA, SAMOA – 11 NOVEMBER 2022:<\/strong>\u00a0The former Assistant Electoral Commissioner, Afualo Daryl Mapu is now serving a 1 year and 6 months prison sentence after he was found guilty of 6 charges that include the possession of narcotics and illegal firearms.<\/p>\n In passing sentence yesterday, Justice Tafaoimalo Leilani Tuala Warren deducted several months from a 3 years starting point based on the mitigating factors in favour of Afualo.<\/p>\n Then deducted 6 months for his personal circumstances, 6 months for the village penalty and another 6 months for his contribution to society. But she also noted concern over a Class A narcotics and firearms found in the defendant\u2019s home where he lives with his wife and children.<\/p>\n \u201cThe existence of glass pipes leads me to infer that he is a user. This drug commonly known as \u201cice\u201d which was found on him is highly addictive and destructive,\u201d said Justice Warren.<\/p>\n \u201cThe accused is convicted of possession of narcotics namely 1.6g of methamphetamine, and sentenced to 1 year and 6 months imprisonment,\u201d said Justice Warren.<\/p>\n She said that it was the norm for a custodian sentence when it comes to narcotics charges.<\/p>\n For possession of an unlawful 9mm pistol, a 22 pistol semiautomatic and a 357 magnum pistol revolver, he was convicted and sentenced to 9 months.<\/p>\n For an unregistered 12 gauge shotgun and a 22 rifle and semiautomatic, he was convicted and sentenced to 3months.<\/p>\n For the possession of unlawful 23 live rounds of ammunition, he was convicted and sentenced to 9 months and for possession of ammunition without a permit, he was convicted and sentenced to 3 months.<\/p>\n All the sentences related to firearms are to be served concurrently with the narcotics sentence of 1 year and 6 months.<\/p>\n She also made an order to deduct the number of days he was under police custody from the sentence.<\/p>\n Afualo’s lawyer Su’a Leone Mailo is appealing the decision and the appeal will be included in the next Supreme Court mentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA – 11 NOVEMBER 2022:\u00a0The former Assistant Electoral Commissioner, Afualo Daryl Mapu is now serving a 1 year and 6 months prison sentence after he was found guilty of 6 charges that include the possession of narcotics and illegal firearms. In passing sentence yesterday, Justice Tafaoimalo Leilani Tuala Warren deducted several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[182,181],"tags":[1780,59,1781],"class_list":["post-14729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-people","tag-court-afualo-senetnced-to-1-year-6-months-in-jail","tag-featured","tag-possession-of-narcotics"],"yoast_head":"\n