A jury heard evidence yesterday of the movements of a former police officer on the night of an alleged smuggling operation, along with those with whom he allegedly conspired.

The Supreme Court saw CCTV footage showing a truck linked to two people, who have admitted charges related to the conspiracy, travel to the area of a public dock in the early hours of November 14, 2023.

Minutes after the truck arrived in the area, GPS on Jonathan McAlpine-Talbot’s police-issued radio showed the communications device at the same public dock.

The truck later left the location at about 3.33am, with the GPS showing the radio and a private car following 35 seconds later.

The truck was later seen arriving at a garage in St George’s, where a black bucket was removed from its flatbed and taken inside, where the men were seen to remove heat-sealed packages containing firearms.

Mr McAlpine-Talbot and Ezekiel Swan have denied allegations that they conspired with others to import and supply firearms and ammunition between an unknown date and November 14, 2023.

Both men have also denied allegations of conspiring to import and supply controlled drugs between an unknown date and December 2, 2023.

Mr McAlpine-Talbot, a former sergeant in the Bermuda Police Service, also denied a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice by improperly sharing information into the investigation of the murder of Wilfred Outerbridge Jr.

Ryan Resendes, Jonathan Mello and Jose Puga have pleaded guilty to offences linked to the alleged plot.

As the trial continued yesterday, Sergeant Mark Raposo told the court that he had collected CCTV footage from several locations as part of the investigation, along with GPS records of Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s police radio.

He showed the jury portions of CCTV footage from a St George’s garage, which he said was owned by Resendes’s family, showing individuals he identified as Resendes and Mello placing an engine in the back of a white truck and leaving on the afternoon of November 13.

Separate CCTV footage showed Mr McAlpine-Talbot arriving at Southside Police Station shortly before 8pm on November 13, leaving about an hour later.

Mr Raposo said Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s radio showed him travelling to The White Horse Pub, where there was a record of an “annoyance incident”.

He then travelled to the Causeway, where he remained for about an hour, before travelling to Gates Fort, then Fort St Catherine’s, Alexandra Battery and Gates Fort again.

At each location, Mr Raposo said, the records show the device travelling to “view points” at walking speed.

Mr McAlpine-Talbot later returned to Southside Police Station, with the radio seen in his hand, but he left the station at about 12.55am with the radio then travelling to an address in St David’s.

At 2.47am, he travelled to the area of St David’s Road and Pepper Hall Road, where he remained stationary for three minutes before travelling towards Kindley Field Road.

CCTV footage showed a police car travelling on to Kindley Field Road at 2.59am, with a white truck matching that used by Mello and Resendes travelling nine seconds behind it.

The truck was seen to approach a public dock in Hamilton Parish at about 3.09am, while Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s radio travelled to an address in Smith’s, before travelling east on South Road in a private car.

At 3.33am, the truck was seen to leave the area, with the private car travelling 35 seconds behind it.

The truck was recorded travelling into St David’s and then towards St George’s about 12 minutes later, arriving at the garage at about 4am.

At that time, Mello and Resendes exited the vehicle and removed a black bucket from its truck bed.

Mr Raposo said that footage from inside the garage, also shown to the jury, showed the men remove a series of heat-sealed packages containing firearms.

Meanwhile, Mr McAlpine-Talbot travelled back to the Smith’s address, and then back to Southside Police Station in his police car.

Mr Raposo also told the court that as part of the investigation, he seized Mr Swan’s phone from him when he was arrested at LF Wade International Airport on January 12, 2024.

Mr Raposo said that on the device he found a series of videos, which were dated as being from October 2023, while Mr Swan was in the United States.

The videos showed an array of cannabis and THC products along with firearms and ammunition.

In one video a voice, which Mr Raposo identified as being Puga, was heard to say “look at what’s coming to the island” while showing jars of cannabis product.

A box labelled “Spooky Season” was then opened to reveal a firearm equipped with a laser sight, with Puga stating that he would clean the weapon to remove fingerprints.

Mr Raposo, meanwhile, said he recognised Mr Swan’s voice along with Puga’s in another video showing some of the THC items with the “Spooky Season” box visible.

He said that he could not confirm the source of all of the videos, but noted one of them appeared to be recorded on Mr Swan’s phone using the Snapchat app and uploaded.

Under cross-examination by Jerome Lynch KC, for Mr McAlpine-Talbot, Mr Raposo accepted that while he had looked for it, he did not see the black bucket before the truck arrived in St George’s.

Questioned by Victoria Greening, for Mr Swan, Mr Raposo accepted that her client’s DNA and fingerprints were not found on any of the recovered contraband and there was nothing to suggest he was physically present during any of the activities on November 13 and 14.

He also accepted that he could not confirm the source of all of the videos and agreed that people can have videos on their phone for a variety of reasons.

The trial continues.

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