A Supreme Court jury will begin deliberations today to decide if a 42-year-old Warwick man is guilty of importing over $100,000 worth of cannabis.

Terrance Vancouver Caines, of Tribe 2 Road, denied importing over 2,000 grams of cannabis in reel-to reel containers on July 27, 2004.

Caines took the stand early yesterday morning and told the court he had no idea the two reel-to-reel containers he brought into Bermuda contained 2,000 grams of cannabis.

The drugs were discovered at the Bermuda International Airport when a Customs officer X-rayed the containers.

Caines, who said he is a ?universal truth revealer and entrepreneur?, told the court that while on a trip in Jamaica he recorded nature sounds to use during spiritual presentations.

He needed to transfer the sounds from a tape recorder to his reel-to-reel tapes and came across a man named Sugar who put him in contact with a man named Bass Clef who could transfer the sounds

Bass Cleff took the tapes from Caines, the only time the two men met, and said he would do the work at his office, which is a trailer with stacks of similar reel-to-reel containers.

A week later Caines called Bass Clef and discovered that the work had not been done.

He told the court that he asked Bass Clef to return the items because he was leaving the country in a few days.

The containers were couriered to Caines and he brought them with him to Wales where he stayed for six months.

He told the court he did not thoroughly inspect the containers during those six months because no work had been done to them and he had no reason to suspect they contained drugs.

?I am not suggesting that Bass Clef is a drug dealer, but someone made a mix up,? Caines said.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill disputed this version of the events during her closing arguments.

She questioned why Caines brought containers he hadn?t touched in months, with nothing recorded on them, to Bermuda for his two week stay.

She also argued that his request to use the bathroom the minute containers were placed on the X-ray machine was fuelled by his knowledge of the containers? contents and not a weak bladder. Ms Dill further attacked Caines? story when she said: ?Do you really think that a business man who traffics drugs is going to send over $100,000 of weed to a man and he doesn?t know if he?s going to get money for it??

Larry Scott, who is representing Caines, began his closing arguments by telling the jury that Caines acknowledges he imported drugs into Bermuda and that they were in his possession.

Mr. Scott said this does not prove guilt because Caines had no knowledge that he was importing drugs.

He questioned why the Crown?s case lacked any finger print evidence which could have helped determine if Caines knew of the containers? contents.

He told the jury that Caines was not required to prove his version of the events and that it was up to the Crown to debunk it, which in his opinion they had failed to do. vHe cautioned the jury that if there was any doubt in their minds of Caines? guilt, ?it is better a guilty man go free than an innocent man be found guilty?.

Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons will give her summations this morning and the jury will begin their deliberations.