A former customs officer raised the alarm over a package containing drugs he’s alleged to have imported into the Island, his superior officer testified yesterday.Senior Customs Officer Colin Smith told Supreme Court he and Bromwin Thompson were working at the FedEx customs facility on Serpentine Road, when the incident occurred.Mr Thompson, of Granaway Heights, Southampton, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiring to import cannabis resin with Shannon Berkeley.The 41-year-old has also denied one count of possessing drugs with intent to supply and one count of official corruption.Mr Smith told the court that on May 20, 2009, he received a phone call from principal customs officer Kelly Trott regarding a package that was suspected to contain contraband.He said he immediately left his office and spoke with the defendant, who told him the package had already been highlighted for search.“He told me that the package had been X-rayed and the results at that time were inconclusive,” Mr Smith said.He then ordered the package to be searched further. Upon investigation, the package was found to contain a Mr Coffee machine, along with four rectangular blocks of cannabis resin.Following the search, Mr Thompson contacted narcotics officers with the police and wrote a report detailing the incident.Asked by defence attorney Charles Richardson if Mr Thompson himself had highlighted the package for search, Mr Smith said: “Yes he did.”Mr Smith said that Mr Thompson couldn’t guarantee that he would be the one to search the highlighted package.The court heard that the searched package was mailed from a Brooklyn address to Tio Pepe Restaurant in Southampton. In a statement read to the court, Tio Pepe owner Manuel Sequeros said he had no knowledge of the package or its sender.On July 17, 2009, Mr Thompson was arrested under suspicion of conspiring to import drugs to the Island. Officers later seized his BlackBerry and several electronic items from his home.Customs officer Wanda Francis also took the stand yesterday, describing an incident that took place on April 17, 2009.She said she was responsible for supervising the transfer of FedEx packages from the cargo jet to FedEx trucks, before sealing and locking the truck.On that day when she went to retrieve the keys the seals were missing.“I became aware that Mr Thompson was in possession of the seals and the keys,” she said. “I went back to the loading area where the FedEx trucks were. Mr Thompson was in the area.”She said Mr Thompson nonchalantly handed the keys to her.“It was very casual,” she said.The trial is expected to continue in Supreme Court today.