Pama Petia

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.[1] He played with Thames Valley and Hawke's Bay.[2]

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.[3][4]

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.