A trio of accused drug dealers operated out of a guest house room in St. George's, a jury was told yesterday.

The trial of Robert Damon Green, 28, Sydney O'Neil Gibbons, 43, and Ronald O'Neal Beach, 33, began yesterday morning in Supreme Court.

The men are charged with possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and possession of cocaine on June 1.

Beach is also charged with possession of heroin with intent to supply.

They deny the charges.

The court heard from Crown counsel Robert Welling that officers executed a search warrant at 7 a.m., Friday, June 1 at a guest room in Aunt Nea's Inn, in St. George's.

When they entered the room, officers found Gibbons on the bed, Beach on the couch and Green naked in the bathroom trying to escape from a small window, the court heard.

In the untidy room, officers found clothes strewn about, a melted ice cream packet, a red package of Skittles partially opened, pieces of garbage, plastic sandwich bags with the corners cut off and a Rizzla packet.

There were also regular plastic sandwich bags, scissors, drinking straws, bits of cardboard paper and two wooden stirring sticks.

In the bathroom, there was a pink packet of what appeared to be Skittles and two homemade cigarettes, one partially smoked, the jury was told.

During the arrest, Green, of DeSilva Close, Pembroke, began to struggle with the officers after they assisted in clothing him and took the pink packet of Skittles and shoved them in his pants.

When the officers were taking them out of the room, Green began to move around and the packet and $4,000 in cash fell out of his pants.

In the packet of Skittles were brown wrappings and white rocks which turned out to be 28.7 grams of the controlled drug crack cocaine worth $9,000 street value and 12.87 grams of the controlled drug heroin worth $9,000 street value, the court was told.

At the Police station while searching Beach, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, officers found brown wrappings in the tongue of one of his shoes which was 1.76 grams of heroin worth $1,500 on the streets.

Crack cocaine residue was found on the scissors and sticks found in the guest room. The two homemade cigarettes also contained crack cocaine.

Mr. Welling told the court that although nothing was found on Gibbons, of Harlem Heights, Hamilton Parish, it doesn't mean he was not a part of the team.

Green is represented by Llewellyn Peniston while Rick Woolridge represents Beach and Gibbons.

Crown counsel Nicole Smith will be assisting Mr. Welling.

The trial is due to continue this morning with Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves presiding.