Four men have been arrested and charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the taxi driver who was threatened and stuffed in the trunk of his taxi last weekend.

One is 19 years old, while the others are in their 20's. 

This was confirmed by Police Superintendent Auapa’au Logoitino Filipo.

“They were arrested and charged today (yesterday) with aggravated robbery and that is all I can say.” 

Last week, Auapa’au said the taxi driver picked up four men from Malifa to take to Vaoala. 

“When they reached Vaoala, the four men assaulted the complainant and put him inside the boot of the taxi."

“They then roamed around the whole night in the complainant’s taxi.” 

This was while the elderly driver was in the boot of the vehicle.

 “The taxi was found at Toamua by a young man,” said Auapaau.

“The young man opened the boot and found the 64-year-old inside. The four men were nowhere to be found.”

The victim has been identified as Ioasa Moors. Last week, the Samoa Observer visited Mr. Moor’s home at Vaivase-uta, he wasn’t home. 

His niece, who gave her name as Sila, said her uncle had his phone stolen on the night of the incident.

She said the family is grateful that Mr. Moors is alive.

“He usually comes home around midnight but on that night, he didn’t come home,” she said. “My mother was waiting for him and we kept calling his mobile phone but it just went straight to voicemail."

“Our family couldn’t sleep because it’s so not him to not come home. We waited but he never showed up until Sunday morning, about 7 o’clock that’s when he came home.”

Sila said her uncle came home and they could see he was exhausted. That’s when he told them what had happened.

“My uncle said he picked up four men and they looked young at around 7pm on Saturday. They told him that they wanted to go to Vaoala."

“He said when they got to Vaoala, that’s when these four men threatened him and told him to get inside the boot. So he did exactly what he was told because he was scared for his life."

“He said when he was inside the boot, the whole time all he could think of was his family and his children.”

Sometime later that night, he heard that the car had stopped.

“That’s when he started knocking on the boot with the hope that a Good Samaritan will help him and it did happen."

“My uncle said when the boot of the car opened, he saw a young man and so he got out and he saw the time was 5 o’clock in the morning.”

According to Sila, her uncle was very lucky.

“The men didn’t ruin anything in the car but they took his phone as well as the taxi’s turn in of more than $300.”

Sila said the taxi does not belong to his uncle. He works for the Owner.

She said his uncle is working again.

 “He’s not here because he went to drive around because he needs to make up for the money that was stolen last week.”

In the meantime, Sila said they are just happy her uncle is okay.

“Incidents such as this end badly, but we are very thankful that my uncle is okay,” she said. “He’s just doing his normal duties now because he also helps out with our family in terms of financial support. We told him that he has to stop what he does, but he said no because he has been a taxi driver for so long."

“It’s what he is good at and despite his age, he is the kind of person who does not want to stay home. He believes staying home will only make him sick and that he is not old."

“The people who behave like this are cowards, they are good for nothing,” she said.