cannabis at Supreme Court.

Kenita Furbert is charged with importing and possessing the cannabis on February 3 after arriving at Bermuda International Airport on a flight from Atlanta.

And in a related charge, Furbert changed a plea to guilty in mid-trial on for damaging a water pipe in the ladies restroom of the Airport Police Station.

Customs officer Kenneth Simmons told Puisne Judge Norma Wade Miller that he examined Furbert's luggage around 4.30 p.m. that day.

Later X-rays of two bottles of body wash, and two of hand lotion showed cannabis hidden inside.

Mr. Simmons said that when Furbert saw numerous images inside three of the bottles she said: "What could that be? I stayed with some friends. How could someone do that to someone else, put something in their luggage?'' He said Furbert claimed to have bought the 13 ounce bottle in Bermuda and the other three in Orlando, Florida, and one of them at 1 a.m. that morning.

Mr. Simmons said he probed the bottles with a sharp instrument and when he touched a solid object, Furbert said: "You can have what's in there. But I just want the body wash and lotion.'' Furbert, of Camp Hill Road, admitted that she packed her luggage that morning and had bought the items for her mother and grandmother as gifts.

Mr. Simmons said that later that evening, he went to the airport police station to find the women's restroom had flooded.

He also testified that the next day he and a policewoman went to the Co-Ed Facility to take Furbert to Police Headquaters to be interviewed.

He said they were shown two cells, one of which was flooded with water and had writing on the wall and the other only had writing on the wall.

He added: "The writing looked and smelled like human faeces. She was in the second cell.'' After legal arguments, Furbert changed her plea to a charge of causing wilful damage to a water pipe.

Mrs. Justice Wade Miller later told the jury she would direct them to find Furbert guilty of the charge.

She added they would only deliberate on the importation and possession charges.

Mr. Simmons said that Furbert remained silent throughout a four hour questioning period at Hamilton Police Station on February 4.

Under cross-examination by Furbert's lawyer, Archibald Warner, Mr. Simmons said she only nodded her head when she was asked if she understood her rights.

Expert witness Det. Con. Alickson Severin, a narcotics officer, testified that the street value of 192 grams of cannabis would be $9,600 if sold in half gram amounts and $3,600 if sold by the ounce.