Misplaced Pages

Pama Petia

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Samoan rugby union player (born 1980) Rugby player
Pama Petia
Full namePama Raymond Petia
Date of birth (1980-08-24) 24 August 1980 (age 44)
Height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight250 lb (113 kg)
SchoolSt Paul's Collegiate School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker / No. 8
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2000 Thames Valley 10 (20)
2003–09 Hawke's Bay 29 (10)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2003 Samoa 1 (0)

Pama Raymond Petia (born 24 August 1980) is a Samoan former international rugby union player.

Educated at St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton, Petia played his rugby as a loose forward and was capped once by Samoa, against Namibia in Windhoek in 2003. He played with Thames Valley and Hawke's Bay.

Petia received a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for money laundering in 2021, after delivering $2 million in cash to a bikie as part of a West Australian drug-smuggling operation.

See also

References

  1. "Petia wants Magpie place back". NZ Herald. 9 April 2007.
  2. "Pama Raymond Petia". www.rugbyhistory.co.nz.
  3. "Ex-rugby player locked up over huge $2m cash drop-off". The West Australian. 26 June 2021.
  4. "WA Police seize $13.1 million in truck stop". The West Australian. 6 December 2020.

External links

Categories: