Drug accused gave Police false address
Albert Omar Peyton gave a false address to Police when he was arrested at the Bermuda International Airport, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
And he did not know the full name or the address of the woman to whom he was supposed to deliver the baby products.
Peyton, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, is charged with importing cocaine worth $243,166 into Bermuda on May 22, 1996 and possessing the drug with intent to supply.
Peyton told Police that he was carrying some baby products -- pampers, baby oil and two bottles of Johnson's baby powder -- for a woman called Sharon.
When questioned further he was unable to tell Police her last name or her address.
Det. Sgt. Andrew Boyce who conducted an interview with Peyton moments after two bags of cocaine were found inside the bottles of baby powder, said the accused told him that Bermuda was a small place.
Moreover he said Peyton told him that John Williams, the man who he would be living with at 36 Hermitage Road, would also assist him.
But former Government cartographer Catherine Gosling testified last Wednesday that 36 Hermitage Road did not exist.
From an Ordnance Survey map of the area, Ms Gosling pointed out that the Land Valuation Office records had no record of a house numbered 36 on Hermitage Road.
In fact the highest numbered house of Hermitage Road was number 30.
Peyton's trial finished its third day yesterday and continues on Monday. Last December, a Supreme Court jury was unable to reach a verdict after the four-man, eight-woman jury deliberated for four-and-a-half hours.
Chief Justice Austin Ward then ordered a retrial which started on Wednesday.
In a statement to Police, recorded on May 23, 1996 Peyton told Police detectives that he had been given $1,000 in the United States and told to drop off some baby products to a person in Bermuda.
And he admitted that he knew that there were drugs hidden among the baby products.
At the Airport, a Customs officer found two bags of cocaine hidden inside two bottles of Johnson's baby powder when he searched Peyton's duffel bag and he was arrested.
When the contents of the two plastic bags were analysed, the cream coloured powder was found to be 980.3 grams of 63 per cent pure cocaine.
Peyton agreed to cooperate with Police and made several attempts to deliver the drugs to his Bermudian contact at the Sandpiper Guest House without success.
The case continues on Monday morning before Mr. Justice Ward. Charlene Scott appears for the crown. Elizabeth Christopher and Renee Foggo appear for the accused.
