The trial of a man who allegedly swallowed 66 pellets filled with cannabis and cocaine and brought them to Bermuda began in Supreme Court on Friday.

Jamie Edward Cox, 26, of Pembroke, faces four charges for the importation and possession with intent to supply of cannabis and cocaine on July, 20, 2003.

During his opening statement, Crown counsel Graveney Bannister told the eight-woman, four-man jury that Cox was stopped at the Bermuda International Airport where he was asked to take an x-ray as he was suspected of carrying drugs.

?(Cox) was asked by an officer but he refused to go. He had to forcibly be put in the Police car and at the hospital he declined to be seen by a doctor and he was arrested and cautioned. Afterwards, Cox asked to use the bathroom, excreting 34 pellets which were seized and documented by Police. Cox was released from the hospital and taken in Police custody,? Mr. Bannister said.

By the next day, Cox had excreted a total of 66 pellets that were seized and documented by Police, he said.

He said narcotics experts estimated the street value of the drugs to be $125,750.

The first witness to give evidence in the trial was Government analyst Dr. Desiree Lisa Allen. Dr. Allen said that 35 of the pellets she tested contained cocaine freebase (crack) weighing a total of 303.1 grammes.

Of these 35 pellets, 24 of them had a purity of 79 percent and 11 of them had a purity of 59 percent, she said.

Nine pellets of cocaine hydrochloride weighed in at 57.9 grammes with 73 percent purity. Twenty pellets of cannabis resin were found to weigh 145.9 grammes.

Two pellets did not contain a controlled drug, she said.

During cross examination, Cox?s lawyer, Victoria Pearman, questioned whether Dr. Allen had tested every pellet while trying to raise doubt to the purity percentages of the drugs.

Justice Charles-Etta Simmons released the jury until the trial reconvenes this morning.