A Supreme Court jury heard that 57 identifiable fingerprints were found on several heat-sealed bags laced with drugs, which a Canadian woman is accused of importing in June of last year.

Detective Constable Natalia Smith of the Bermuda Police Service said evidence of the fingerprints had been sent to a fingerprint expert for analysis.

Sandra Marrero-Guzman, 37, has denied conspiring with others to bring cannabis into Bermuda and possessing cannabis with intent to supply on June 20, 2025.

When the trial continued yesterday, Ms Smith, who is attached to the forensic support unit of the BPS, detailed her duties on June 26 last year when she was tasked with photographing evidence in the case.

The jury was shown photographs of several items, including a black hard-case suitcase that contained 29 heat-sealed packages, Ms Marrero-Guzman’s Canadian passport and a boarding pass in the defendant’s name.

A monetary form, which gave a breakdown of $2,320 in Canadian currency seized from the defendant, was among items Ms Smith photographed.

She told the jury that the heat-sealed packages were processed for analysis and in the process, the fingerprints were observed.

Questioned by Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe about the nature of the fingerprints, the witness was unable to say if the prints belonged to different people or how many people they belonged to.

She said she submitted the photographs to a forensic expert for analysis.

In agreed facts presented to the court, Jamal Bridgewater, for the Crown, said the prints were analysed but did not match Ms Marrero-Guzman.

He said they were sent to Interpol by Canadian authorities using the automated fingerprint identification system.

Yesterday, Detective Sergeant Courtney Downey, a digital forensic expert, told the court that he analysed the contents of two iPhones that belonged to the defendant.

He said the information in one of the phones contained an e-mail which helped him to understand “the lifestyle” of the defendant.

“I found conversations of people, who in my opinion were looking for sex,” he told the court.

He was also questioned by the Crown about a conversation of a sexual nature on the phone that included the abbreviation MSOG, which Mr Downey told the court meant “multiple shots on goal”.

The court heard that in a WhatsApp conversation, someone named “Anton” stated “Let me make you some real money” in a message on the defendant’s second iPhone.

In the rolling conversation, which spanned several days, Anton mentioned “a quick trip down to the islands” while arranging to meet the defendant.

In another message to the defendant’s phone, Anton said: “We have to talk about the job to make $7,000”.

Detective Constable O’Neil Swaby continued his testimony and related aspects of an interview with the defendant.

Earlier he told the court that he was called to the LF Wade Airport on the afternoon of June 20, 2025, where customs officers informed him of their findings when the defendant was stopped after arriving on an Air Canada flight from Toronto.

Mr Swaby conducted an investigation, which included confiscating Ms Marrero-Guzman’s passport, luggage and plane ticket.

He interviewed the defendant which was recorded and shown to the jury.

Under cross-examination by Susan Mulligan, for Ms Marrero-Guzman, he recalled the defendant saying “I did not do that” when it was put to her that the items seized from her could have her DNA or fingerprints.

He also said the defendant provided the password to two seized phones. The trial continues.

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