Samoa drug raids reach 20 this year, as countrymen caught up in gang hit

Samoa drug raids reach 20 this year, as countrymen caught up in gang hit

Samoa police conducted 20 drug raids in five months, charging 55 people, as two Samoans confessed to a gang-ordered killing in Vietnam reportedly contracted for NZ$1.5 million by the "Coconut Cartel." Australian Federal Police report 17 tonnes of illicit drugs seized across the Pacific since January—over three times the 2025 total—prompting a new joint strike force in Colombia to counter the expanding transnational syndicate network.