A detective involved in the case of three alleged drug dealers was yesterday quizzed by lawyers about his recollection of a raid.

According to prosecutors, Robert Damon Green, 28, Sydney O'Neil Gibbons, 43, and Ronald O'Neal Beach, 33, operated out of a room at the Aunt Nea's Inn guest house in St. George's.

The trio are charged with possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and possession of cocaine on June 1. Beach is also charged with possession of heroin with intent to supply.

According to Crown counsel Robert Welling at the opening of the case on Monday, Police raided a room at Aunt Nea's at 7 a.m on June 1.

He alleged that Police officers found 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 clothes strewn about, a melted ice cream packet, a red package of Skittles candies partially opened, pieces of garbage, plastic sandwich bags with the corners cut off and a Rizzla packet.

The prosecutor claimed that there were also regular plastic sandwich bags, scissors, drinking straws, bits of cardboard paper and two wooden stirring sticks. In the bathroom, he said, there was a pink packet of what appeared to be Skittles and two homemade cigarettes, one partially smoked.

The jury also heard that during the arrest, Green, of DeSilva Close, Pembroke, began to struggle with the officers after they assisted in clothing him and took the pink packet of Skittles and shoved 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 were brown wrappings and white rocks that turned out to be 28.7 grams of the controlled drug crack cocaine worth $9,000 street value and 12.87 grams of the controlled drug heroin worth $9,000 street value, the court was told.

At the Police station while searching Beach, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, officers found brown wrappings in the tongue of one of his shoes which was 1.76 grams of heroin worth $1,500 on the streets.Crack cocaine residue was found on the scissors and sticks found in the guest room. The two homemade cigarettes also contained crack cocaine.

Mr. Welling told the court that although nothing was found on Gibbons, of Harlem Heights, Hamilton Parish, it did not mean he was not a part of the team.

During the case yesterday, lawyers for the accused trio quizzed Det. Con. Don DeSilva about his recollection of the raid at Aunt Nea's.

Llewellyn Peniston, for Green, claimed the detective did not see Green climbing out of the bathroom window naked as he had said in his evidence in chief.

Det. Con. DeSilva said that he had done.

Mr. Peniston also asked the officer if he remembered finding a black-handled machete buried beneath the cushions on the couch in the guestroom.

Det. Con. DeSilva said he did not.

Mr. Peniston also put it to the detective that two wooden sticks found in the room were chopsticks, and there was the remains of a Chinese meal in the room.

Det. Con. DeSilva said he did not remember there being a meal, and that the sticks were definitely not chopsticks.

Mr. Peniston then said: "You did not see any money, you did not see any drugs, you didn't see a Skittles bag falling from the back of Mr. Green."

The officer replied: "That's not true."

Mr. Peniston then said: "I put it to you that the allegation of drugs and money and the Skittles bag that fell out of the back of this defendant was planted."

To which Det. Con. DeSilva replied: "That's not true."

During his cross-examination of the detective, Rick Woolridge, who represents Beach and Gibbons, questioned him about how the money that allegedly fell from Green's person was packaged.

Det. Con. Silva said he could not recall exactly how.

"It was a large sum of money. You saw it drop. You saw it hit the floor. You cannot remember how it was – bundled, packaged loose – but you saw it?" asked Mr. Woolridge.

The officer said he had.

The defendants deny the charges against them, and the case continues.