Pama Petia | |
Full Name: | Pama Raymond Petia |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1980 |
Height: | 6 ft 1 in |
Weight: | 250 lb |
School: | St Paul's Collegiate School |
Position: | Flanker / No. 8 |
Years1: | 2000 |
Clubs1: | Thames Valley |
Apps1: | 10 |
Points1: | 20 |
Years2: | 2003–09 |
Clubs2: | Hawke's Bay |
Apps2: | 29 |
Points2: | 10 |
Repyears1: | 2003 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 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]