An alleged drug dealer made and received numerous calls from telephone numbers in Toronto, Jamaica and Bermuda, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

Leighton Horace Griffiths, 33 of King Street, Pembroke has pleaded not guilty to possessing the controlled drug cocaine with the intent to supply. He was arrested on July 1, 2005 when he went to the LF Wade International Airport to collect an air compressor containing 480.52 grams of cocaine — $144,500 street value.

Griffiths is represented by defence lawyer Mark Pettingill while Robert Welling is prosecuting for the Crown.

Mr. Pettingill continued his cross-examination of Detective Constable Wandol Thorpe yesterday by asking him if he had attempted to call Denise Robinson — the person who sent the package. He said "no".

He also asked the officer if he made any attempts to see if Griffiths was telling the truth when he said he was in Toronto for a family reunion.

Det. Con. Thorpe said he didn't have the names, addresses or telephones numbers of any of the defendant's family or friends.

The Crown presented three witnesses in the field of telecommunications — Ankeysha Place of M3 Wireless, Michael Leverock, chief operating officer of CellularOne and Karen Carlington, manager at TeleBermuda International.

Ms Place told the jury in her evidence there were numerous outgoing calls from the M3 Wireless cell phone number 336-2721 to 735-7077, 505-7077 and 296-9030 between June 16 and July 1, 2005.

The calls lasted only a few seconds most of the time.

She also said there were international outgoing calls on the phone records to a number in Toronto.

Ms Place was unable to say who made any of the calls or where they were made.

Mr. Leverock told the court a contract cell phone with the number 735-7077 was activated on June 25, 2005 by Wilton Woolridge — the man whom the defendant claims sent him to pick up the package.

Another phone, 732-5162 was a pre-paid cellular phone.

The witness explained a pre-paid phone is when a customer buys call time and pays as he or she goes. The only information they are required to give is their name, address and identification.

A contract cell phone is when a customer buys a set plan and has a monthly bill to pay. They are required to give the company their name, address, bank account numbers, employment or home number and sometimes other information.

Ms Carlington said the only records she had were either incoming and outgoing long distance calls or calls made by a Bermuda cell phone overseas.

She told the jury there had been numerous calls to a Jamaica and Toronto number from 336-2761. She also told the court she couldn't say where the calls were made or who made them.

The trial continues today.