A Supreme Court jury heard a man charged with possession of drugs was a good employee.

Michael Euguene Parsons, known as Mikie, has pleaded not guilty to handling $22,000 of cocaine in an increased penalty zone with intent to supply, on October 6, 2005.

Parsons is represented by defence lawyer Craig Attridge while Robert Welling is for the Crown.

The Crown alleges Parsons — a former DHL courier— dropped off a package containing cocaine at QuoVadis Ltd. addressed to someone who did not work there and came back the next day to pick it up.

The defendant’s former supervisor, Zina DeRosa told the court he was a fast learner.

“He was a good worker, very organised and would assist other workers,” she said.

She said he was trained by a Juan Manuel, a manager from Colombia. Even though she said Mr. Manuel wasn’t very organised, Parsons was a model employee.

Ms DeRosa told the court she didn’t know anything about the delivery to QuoVadis because the couriers scan in their own packages when they come in. The witness said she never received any phone calls about the delivery either.

“I learned about Police involvement when I couldn’t get Mikie on the radio,” she said.

Karen Carlington, Customer Service Manager at TeleBermuda International told the jury a call was placed from a Bermuda cell phone number to a landline in New Jersey, the same state the package came from.

Ms Carlington said the call was placed on October 5, 2005 and lasted exactly one minute.

She explained the computer logs each call that is made creating a record.

Mr. Attridge asked the witness if she could say that the call was made by the owner of the phone. She said no.

“Can you tell me if that call was made with permission from the owner of that cell phone?” he asked. She also said no.

Det. Con. Windol Thorpe was one of the officers who arrested Parsons.

He said he went to QuoVadis on October 5 and received the DHL package. He told the court it contained a white binder with software pages and the cocaine. He took the package to the Police narcotics department and brought it back to QuoVadis the next day.

Det. Con. Thorpe said he was positioned close to the entrance but out of sight. He saw the defendant pick up the package from a desk and then move over to collect his papers.

“I identified myself and informed the defendant the package he collected contained cocaine and arrested him under suspicion of possession of the controlled drug cocaine. He said, ‘What have I done wrong? I’m just doing my job’.”

Det. Con. Thorpe told the court he took Parsons to the Hamilton Police station and took a statement.

He said the defendant was read a record of the statement and agreed with it. The trial continues.