One of three men accused of operating a drug dealing enterprise out of a guest house room has told a jury they rented the room to entertain women.

Sydney O'Neil Gibbons, 43, said he couldn't do this at his Hamilton Parish home — because he lives with his parents.

His testimony came during the third week of his trial, in which Robert Damon Green, 28, and Ronald O'Neal Beach are the co-accused.

Following a raid on the room they shared at Aunt Nea's Guest House in St. George at 7 a.m. on June 1, the trio stand charged with possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.

The case for the prosecution, as previously set out by Crown Prosecutor Robert Welling, is that Police entered the room to find Gibbons on the bed, Beach on the couch and Green naked in the bathroom trying to escape from a small window.

In the room, officers found items including two wooden stirring sticks and a pair of scissors with crack cocaine residue on them, plastic sandwich bags with the corners cut off and a Rizla packet. In the bathroom was a pink packet of what appeared to be Skittles and two homemade cigarettes containing crack.

The jury has heard from Mr. Welling that during the arrest, Green, of DeSilva Close, Pembroke, began to struggle with the officers after they assisted in clothing him, taking the pink packet of Skittles and shoving them in his pants.

When the officers were taking them out of the room, Green began to move around and the packet and $4,000 in cash fell out of his pants, it is alleged.

In the packet of Skittles was worth $18,000 of heroin and crack cocaine.

When Beach, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, was taken to South Side Police Station, $1,500 of heroin was found in the tongue of one of his shoes.

In answer to questions yesterday from his lawyer Rick Woolridge Jr, Gibbons said he checked into Aunt Nea's on May 29, paying for the room called Loquats with Green. The night before the June 1 raid he said the three of them went on a night out in St. George's.

He also told how a fellow guest at the guest house came to the room that night. He was non-Bermudian, said Gibbons, who could not remember his name.

Describing the moment the drugs were discovered during the Police operation on June 1, Gibbons said everyone was facing the door on their way out of the room.

"We heard something hit the floor. Mr. Rock (Det. Con. Patrick Rock) shout out 'wait guys, wait,' we looked back and saw the drugs lying on the floor."

He told the court he had no knowledge the drugs were in the room before this.

Under cross-examination from Llewellyn Peniston, Green's lawyer, he said he saw Det. Con. Rock bring Green out of the bathroom naked and another Police officer towel him down — front and back — but he saw no drugs attached to him.

Under cross-examination from Mr. Welling, Gibbons, of Harlem Heights Road, said he has used heroin on and off for 20 years, and was using on the date in question.

Mr. Welling put it to him: "One of the side effects of using heroin is that it severely affects the sex life, doesn't it?"

Gibbons replied: "No, no, no. That's bull crap."

In answer to questions from Mr. Welling about drug use, he said he had consumed both heroin and alcohol in the early hours of the morning of his arrest and had seen Beach take them too.

He agreed with the prosecutor that he did not see anyone planting plastic bags with the corners cut out, scissors or cigarette papers in the room and did not see anyone put anything inside Beach's sneakers.

Asked about the tourist who visited the hotel room, he agreed with Mr. Welling that the man used the drug Clorazepate, and said: "Weren't nothing said. I don't even know how he got in that room. He just appeared in the room."

Green exercised his right to silence, and did not take the witness stand.

The case, which began on November 5, continues.