A detective who investigated an alleged conspiracy to import cannabis to Bermuda has told how he seizedtravel documents and items including $22,000 in Jamaican currency from one defendant?s home. Four men ? George Leonard Lambert, 53, Gladwyn Sherwyn Simmons, 54, Ricardo Michael Tucker, 31, and Tristan La-Van Codrington, 30 ? stand accused of the conspiracy.

Det. Con. Ihab Azab told Supreme Court yesterday how, on March 12 2004 ? following a visit the previous day to the Yacht Reporting Centre in St George ? another Police officer handed him a number of documents, including passports in the name of Codrington and Tucker, and a bill of sale for a yacht named .

He was also given customs documents from the Turks and Caicos government and a boarding report from the US Coast Guard dated February 19 2004. He said he secured these in the Police narcotics office.

The prosecution contends that the picked up what Crown Counsel Carrington Mahoney describeds as ?the cargo? somewhere in the vicinity of Haiti during a trip from Florida to Bermuda.

Mr. Mahoney has told the jury that when Police boarded the yacht on March 11 2004, and found a piece of duct tape with cannabis residue on it.

He said that ?similar? tape was found at Lambert?s home in Scaur Hill Lane, Sandys, on March 13, along with plastic buckets and an electric saw with cannabis residue on them and a large amount of ?cannabis sawdust?.

In his evidence, Det. Con. Azab outlined the Police operation on March 13 which led to the seizure of the buckets and saw, plus a travel bag with a number of documents inside.

These included internet print-outs of a boat he believed to be a receipt from a Toronto hotel, and Air Canada travel itineraries in Lambert?s name dated February 7 2004 and March 13 2004.

There were also an Air Jamaica ticket jacket containing an itinerary in Lambert?s name plus $22,000 Jamaican currency and $100 in US currency. Lambert was arrested after the search, said DC Azab, and Codrington was arrested by other officers. The case ? which began on April 5 ? resumed yesterday after lengthy delays for legal argument. The jury was briefly called back last week, when Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons directed it to acquit a fifth defendant, 42-year-old Anthony Stanley Martin from Jamaica.

Lambert, Simmons, Tucker, and Codrington, all of Sandys Parish, deny conspiring together with others to import cannabis between February 1 2004 and March 11 2004. Lambert denies separate charges of possessing cannabis with intent to supply and possessing equipment for the preparation of a controlled drug.

He has pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis and possessing equipment for preparing a controlled drug. The case continues.