Jurors were shown pages of phone records linking two men charged with a conspiracy to smuggle guns and drugs with those who have already admitted involvement.

The Supreme Court heard that evidence of hundreds of WhatsApp calls and Snapchat messages were found on phones seized in the case, including communications on the night of the 2023 importation.

Records also showed that a phone belonging to Jonathan McAlpine-Talbot, a former sergeant with the Bermuda Police Service, contacted that of Ryan Resendes hours after Jonathan Mello was arrested.

One message sent from Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s phone stated: “Even told them they were coming. Just didn’t know when.”

Another message sent from Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s phone said that he hoped Resendes’s “spot is clean”.

Resendes responded that “it” was not inside, adding that he didn’t want to check outside because he was concerned that he might “have eyes on him”.

On that same day, the court heard that Mr McAlpine-Talbot was recorded logging on to the police computer system on his day off and searching who was in police custody.

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 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.

Resendes, Mello and Jose Puga have pleaded guilty to offences linked to the smuggling plot.

Earlier in the trial, the jury saw CCTV footage showing Mello and Resendes travelling between St George’s, St David’s and a public dock, while GPS records from Mr McAlpine-Talbot’s police radio showed him travelling to the same public dock at the same time in the early hours of November 14, 2023.

Less than an hour later, CCTV recordings from a St George’s garage, owned by Resendes’s family, showed Mello bringing a black bucket into the garage and removing alleged firearms from the bucket.

The court heard that police executed a search at the garage on December 2, 2023, and discovered a black bucket containing several items in heat-sealed packages, including firearms, near the tree line of the property.

As the trial continued, the court heard that a series of phones had been seized during the investigation and analysed.

Among the devices were three phones associated with Mr McAlpine-Talbot, including his police-issued phone and two personal devices.

The court heard the police phone contained very little personal data, but GPS on the device showed its movements on the evening of November 13 and the early morning of November 14.

The second phone showed a long history of communications between Mr McAlpine-Talbot and both Mello and Resendes, including a series of calls on November 13 and 14.

Another of the seized phones was activated on December 15, 2023, and was used to download a tracker detector app soon after.

The phone was later used to search online if police can listen to WhatsApp calls and if you can “leave weed in cold weather”.

Meanwhile, Mr Swan’s phone showed a series of messages between him and both Mello and Puga, with the jury shown three videos on his phone depicting a firearm.

The first two of the videos, which had already been shown to the jury, were created on October 20, 2023, while the third — which showed a firearm being held close to a person’s lap — was dated November 20 that year.

The phone also included a photograph of a handwritten note with Puga’s name and an address in Dana Point, California.

The court further heard that Mr Swan’s phone connected to wi-fi in California between October 19 and 23, 2023.

However, the court heard that Mr Swan’s phone did not have any contact details for Mr McAlpine-Talbot.

The trial continues.

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