A Jamaican faces a lengthy jail sentence after pleading guilty to importing more than $1.8 million of heroin into the Island.

Barris Dawkins (aka Rudolph Everton Pusey), 46, of Montego Bay, will re-appear at the next arraignment session for sentencing.

In Supreme Court yesterday he pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to import heroin between a date unknown and March 24, 2001.

Crown Counsel Juan Wolffe's request that the charge remain on file was granted by Assistance Justice Philip Storr.

But Dawkins pleaded guilty to importation between the same dates.

He was jointly charged with fellow Jamaican Andrew Nathaniel Hall, 38, who did not have to plead to the same charges after his lawyer Patrick Doherty withdrew from the case citing a conflict of representation. He is due to re-appear when a date has been fixed.

Dawkins and Hall had originally been charged alongside Jamaican nurse Teartia Laverna Smith, 38, who was jailed last May for 14 years after pleading guilty to importing the heroin in her underwear.

Smith arrived from New York on March 24 last year and was interviewed by customs at Bermuda airport after claiming to have lost her bag.

She told them she was here to visit a cousin but soon admitted this was a lie and a search revealed the drugs hidden in her pants.