Police: Jailers let inmates go buy beer
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are suspected of letting inmates leave to go on beer and food runs.
Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua were charged this week with aiding the escape of a prisoner, permitting escape and public servant acceding to corruption.
A police search at Territorial Correctional Facility in July turned up beer in an inmate's cell.
Police say that while trying to find out how it got there, they learned the officers were sending inmates unsupervised to a nearby store. One inmate allowed out is serving 40 months for assaulting another man with a machete.
Court documents say an inmate told investigators he bought beer for another inmate and chips and cookies for Tua.
Aina and Tua were each held on $10,000 bail.
Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua were charged this week with aiding the escape of a prisoner, permitting escape and public servant acceding to corruption.
A police search at Territorial Correctional Facility in July turned up beer in an inmate's cell.
Police say that while trying to find out how it got there, they learned the officers were sending inmates unsupervised to a nearby store. One inmate allowed out is serving 40 months for assaulting another man with a machete.
Court documents say an inmate told investigators he bought beer for another inmate and chips and cookies for Tua.
Aina and Tua were each held on $10,000 bail.
damn, I gotta go to THAT jail next time I get drunk and act stupidly :)
Isn't drinking in their prison cells the most responsible place to drink the beer?
atleast they didnt steal the beer but purchase it instead :)
 @Nathan Galaviz They are starting to show signs of responsibility & law abiding behavior....
Check out this link. Looks like a pretty nice place to suck down a couple of brews and count the waves........
http://www.samoa.travel/
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What? No pizza?
 @WendyTeagarden the nerve!
I'll withhold judgement until I find out what kind of beer it was.
 @Kushfan Wutcha need Kush, my turn to buy......
@beernpizza @Kushfan  Could you pick up a Victoria's Secret catalog while you are at it? Put it on my tab. Thanks
 @Kushfan I think i have a stack of 'Nuns life'
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I'm gonna need a stack of them myself.
@Kushfan  Foster's. It's Austalian for beer, mate.
 @Kushfan Now that's funny!
Well at least the inmates won't rip the ex-jailers apart when they get thrown in there with them. Sounds like the ex-guards gave them pretty darn good treatment.
Wow. So the officers will now be joining the inmates.
@DeaconBugg But they have already made friends with "Bubba". Maybe he'll leave them alone.
@DeaconBugg Until they let themselves out for their own beer run
@AmFromHere The keys are being copied as we speak........