Deborah Wallata Cole, who is charged with importing seven pounds of cannabis into Bermuda, said her younger brother may have set her up.

In her second full day of testimony, the court heard how Cole and her mother arrived at the Baltimore-Washington International airport laden with 13 pieces of luggage between them and were told to leave some behind.

Cole, 21, of Hollis Avenue, Queen's, New York, is accused of conspiring with others to import cannabis valued at $160,000 into the Island between September 15 and 17 1994.

She is also charged with importing the drug on September 17.

Cole's mother, reggae superstar Judy Mowatt, performed last year at the Culture Shock reggae concert in Somerset.

The court heard that Cole and her mother had too much baggage when they arrived at the Airport on September 17.

But Cole said she still offered to help her brother and checked in a suitcase for him even though she already had some seven bags and was way over the flight limit.

She said the grey and black suitcase that was seized at the Airport in Bermuda may have been the same one that she checked in for her brother.

"He lifted it onto the scale at the Airport,'' she explained. "I glimpsed at it. But I didn't take note of it.'' After her bags were checked in -- she took three of the seven bags to Bermuda -- she said the clerk gave her claim tags for each bag and that is how her brother's suitcase had her name on it.

She said the other pieces were taken to New York because she only intended to spend one night in Bermuda and would have picked them up on her return.

Cole was unable to explain why she had no ownership tags for the four bags she claimed were sent to New York.

Once on the airplane, Cole said she gave the three claim tags for the bags she took to Bermuda to her brother so that he could get his own bags.

A grey and black suitcase was left unclaimed at the airport. When Bermuda Police and Customs officials opened it they found 10 packages of cannabis wrapped in plastic and duct tape.

The drugs were hidden in some sheets and a comforter and wrapped in fabric softener.

Cole has denied any knowledge of the drugs, although in a Police interview after her arrest she said that she bought three sets of sheets and a comforter and gave two of the sheet sets and the comforter to a friend called Denise Davenport.

Davenport then packed a suitcase and brought it to her on September 17 at the Baltimore airport.

However, Cole said she made up that entire story because she was scared although she was unable to say how this story would have helped her to lessen the trouble she had found herself in.

Cole also told Police that Davenport, who lives in Los Angeles, told her she had visited Bermuda for Spring break and brought drugs in.

But Cole maintained that this too was also untrue. Crown counsel Mr. Philip Storr alleged that her "story'' about Davenport was a true admission of guilt and he said a used airline ticket stub that was found in her handbag demonstrated this.

The ticket which was dated September 16, 1994 recorded a journey from Cincinnati through Denver to Los Angeles. Police found the carbon copy portion in her handbag which suggested that it had been used.

Mr. Storr charged that Cole used this ticket to go to Los Angeles and picked up the drugs.

Cole said that she was supposed to pick up 48 T-shirts in Denver and 120 vests in Los Angeles but she did not make the trip because her mother paged her at the airport and told her the trip was no longer necessary although she had checked in.