Details emerged in court yesterday of an alleged plot between a customs officer and the other man accused with him of conspiring to import drugs.The trial of Bromwin David Thompson, 41, continued with the testimony of a police analyst who examined text messages between phones used by the two men.Mr Thompson, of Granaway Heights, Southampton faces two counts of conspiring with Shannon Berkeley and others to import cannabis resin. He is charged also with one count of possessing cannabis with intent to supply on May 20, 2009, and one count of corruptly receiving or obtaining money.Mr Thompson denies all charges.Crown counsel Nicole Smith told the court that Mr Thompson, who was promoted to the rank of customs officer in 2005, was tasked with the interception of illicit goods. He was transferred in July 2007 to the FedEx facility on Serpentine Road, where his primary role was to examine and release goods to FedEx. He was arrested for conspiracy to import on July 17, 2009.Reading from a statement of senior immigration officer Ron Davis, Ms Smith first listed trips made by the defendant from LF Wade International Airport. Running from an August 2008 return from Philadelphia to a May 2009 return from New York, the evidence covered eleven separate trips to the US.Ms Smith also read evidence attesting to transcripts of texts and phone calls made on Mr Thompson’s cell phone, which were retrieved from computers of Digicel and M3 Wireless networks, as well as the Bermuda Telephone Company.She presented evidence that between December 31, 2007 and July 6, 2009, there were frequent monthly contacts between the two men. In particular, a statement from a UK criminal intelligence analyst Jacqueline Day said that in June 2010, she was asked to analyse text messages relating to packages containing drugs, which had been seized by police.Ms Smith read from the statement that Mr Berkeley’s number had been used to communicate with numbers overseas, while the phone used by Mr Thompson did not send any texts to international numbers. It had been used for texting with Mr Berkeley’s phone.According to Ms Day’s statement: “It can be inferred that Mr Berkeley was involved with organising package deals with overseas suppliers, and passed information to Mr Thompson, who was in a position to monitor the delivers of the packages.”Senior police intelligence analyst Hugo Benziger then took the stand and, questioned by Ms Smith, said he had been asked to examine texts between the two men’s phones.On May 30, 2009, a Warwick address was sent from Mr Berkeley’s phone to an apparently overseas number, giving the address of a Raymour Trott. Another text on May 18 gave the address of the Paradise Gift Shop in St. George’s, while a May 19 text gave the Southampton address of the Tio Pepe Restaurant.Mr Benziger said that a May 20 text from Mr Berkeley’s phone to Mr Thompson’s phone said “New one sent yesterday” and included a package number with the restaurant’s name. A later text gave a seven-digit number which Mr Benziger said he inferred was a Bermuda telephone number. A later text sent back from Mr Thompson’s number read “Throw that SIM away before you go. If you good, get a new one for you. Don’t want them take that if you don’t make it.”Under cross examination by Mr Thompson’s lawyer Charles Richardson, Mr Benziger agreed that the name “Paradise Gift Shop” had never been sent to Mr Thompson’s own phone, and that text message information could not be stored within the SIM card of a cell phone.The trial continues today.