The trial continued yesterday of the cruise ship worker accused of importing $60,000 worth of cannabis on the Horizon on May 6.

Magistrates' Court heard Brentley Flynn, 26 of St. Anne's in Jamaica make allegations of threats and promises by a white male Police officer when he took the stand.

Flynn alleges that on the night of May 6, after he had been arrested when drugs were found hidden in his cabin aboard the ship, he asked for Det. Con. Denise Downey, who had interviewed him earlier that evening, and instead of her a white male officer came.

Flynn claims that this officer is the same one who told two other officers to arrest him and the three other suspects on the ship.

Flynn told the court that this officer came up to his cell and told him he could talk to him and he was taken to an interview room where he said he was concerned with what he was being charged with.

He claimed the officer asked him if he had any information about the drugs and then threatened him with 20 years behind bars when he refused to say anything.

He claimed the officer asked him if he had kids and, when he replied yes, told him that he would not see them again until they were 20 years old.

Flynn said the officer then offered to help him if he would give him a statement. Flynn said he was told that if he did this no evidence would be brought against him in court.

The officer also said that the drugs that were seized mean nothing to him and if Flynn could give him some cocaine or heroin then it would be better for him, the defendant said.

Flynn told the court: "I told him I don't know nothing about no drugs. I didn't give him any more information about drugs. I couldn't help him."

Flynn told the court that the Officer then took him back to the jailer and came back for him in the morning. When he repeated that he had nothing to say he was sent back to his cell.

Flynn claimed he then asked the jailer if he could see Det. Con. David Bhagwan and Det. Con. Jamiko Tucker who arrested him.

When Magistrate William Francis asked why he wanted to see them, he said: "Nobody wants to get 20 years for something they didn't do."

When he met with them, Flynn claimed he said: "I told them that I wanted to come clean with them, to tell them what I know. So I told them what I knew compared to what they found."

Det. Con. Bhagwan, a narcotics officer who works in conjunction with the Customs Office, denied any knowledge of a white officer visiting Flynn and said: "This is the first time I am hearing about this."

But later in cross-examination he said: "It could have been anyone, because the jailers shift changes three to four times a day."

He also admitted to there being a white officer, Det. Con. William Patterson, but he said: "He was not a part of the investigating team, he was part of the cruise ship team."

Det. Con. Bhagwan also told the court that he and Det. Con. Tucker had interviewed Flynn on May 7 and May 8.

Det. Con. Downey told the court that she interviewed Flynn in the presence of Customs Officer Wanda Francis.

Mr. Mussenden asked her where the white cloths like the ones the drugs were found in were in Flynn's cabin.

She told them they were in a drawer but could not confirm whose drawer it was.

Mr. Mussenden asked if she was aware of the results of any fingerprint tests that might have been taken on the ship and the drug parcels when they were found and she replied no.

The trial was adjourned until today.