Puisne Justice Ian Kawaley adjourned the gun and heroin possession trial of a Pembroke man, sending away a jury until today as lawyers began extensive legal arguments.

Mr. Justice Kawaley said ?it would not be practical? to have the jury back today ? if they had to break for the Cup Match holiday.

On Monday, the jury was told Albert Eugene Alexander Allen denied owning a loaded handgun found in a shed outside his home in a December 2002, saying an informant told Police ?something wrong?.

No fingerprints were found on the Astra nine millimetre semi-automatic and related ammunition seized in the Parson?s Road garden shed, outside of Allen?s home.

The five woman, seven man jury watched intently as P.c. Steve Palmer of the Forensic Support Unit said that ?high humidity makes fingerprint exams very difficult?.

Police raided Allen?s home on December 12, 2002 just two days after an unsolved shooting of a Jamaican man at Middle Terrace, Pembroke.

Allen denies possession of the handgun, ammunition and 38 grams of heroin with intent to supply but admits possessing scales that have tested positive for heroin residue and cannabis.

P.c. Sean Morris told the court the Serious Crimes Unit under then Insp. Stuart Crockwell, searched the apartment armed with a search warrant.

P.c. Morris and Insp. Crockwell found Allen lying on a bed in an upstairs room. When they told him he was being arrested for suspicion of possession a firearm, Allen replied ?somebody told you something wrong?, and later when Allen was shown the firearm: ?What?s that? That racks my brain. I don?t know who the f**k put that there.?

Sgt. Thomas Sharkey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tested the weapon and nine unfired nine millimetre cartridges and found it to be fully functioning.

When asked by Crown Counsel Wayne Caines whether he had drawn any conclusions about the weapon he said it ?was capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person?.

In relation to the drug charges, P.c. Morris said Police discovered a small ?plastic twist of plant like material? on a bedside table in an upstairs bedroom.

Another plastic bag was found in a closet among some clothes which was opened in front of the defendant.

Government Analyst Christine Quigley told the court that 38.7 grams of heroin was contained in that plastic bag with a purity of 19 percent.

Mrs. Quigley told Mr. Hector that the heroin she normally tested from Police seizures tested with a purity percentage of ?40 to 70 percent?.

Narcotics detective Sgt. Christopher Clark ? an expert on the street value of drugs ? testified the heroin was worth $49,000.

He also said the presence of the scales and the amount of drugs seized were indictors that the drugs were meant to be sold.

But Mr. Hector commented that when people sell drugs large amounts of money are normally found, but in Allen?s case there was no money.