A Supreme Court jury yesterday heard how more than $1 million worth of cannabis was detected by Customs officials.

Customs officer Dan Alban and Det. Con. Shannon Wolffe recalled the events which led to the arrest of former Federal Express courier Gladstone Headlam who is charged with supplying the drug and handling it with the intention of supplying it.

During day two of the Supreme Court trial, the five-man, seven-woman jury heard that an Airport Customs dog alerted Customs officers to part of a Federal Express shipment on April 11 of last year.

Customs officer Mr. Alban testified that Narcotics officers were notified after the packages, addressed to a Somerset address, were X-rayed.

Upon examination, 29 packages of plant material were found among three pieces of stereo equipment.

A Government analyst told the court that the 25.6 kilos, roughly 55 pounds, of plant material was cannabis.

Crown Counsel Charlene Scott said during her opening statements on Wednesday that the cannabis had a retail value of more than $1 million.

Det. Con. Wolffe testified that Police officers repacked the boxes with dummy packages with only a small sample of the cannabis and returned them to the Airport freight shed that night.

The following day the boxes were reportedly taken to Hamilton and loaded into a delivery truck operated by Headlam.

Det. Con. Wolffe said officers launched a surveillance on the Federal Express van.

But he admitted that Police lost sight of the van several times during their surveillance.

Det. Con. Wolffe said he approached Headlam while he was making a delivery at the Southampton Princess Hotel and questioned him about the packages.

"He said a man he did not know flagged him down in the street and asked him to deliver the same three packages to a residence on Hillview Road in Warwick,'' he recalled.

Det. Con Wolffe said he then arrested Headlam.

During cross examination by Headlam's lawyer Mark Pettingill, Det. Con Wolffe admitted that he did not know who picked the three packages up from the Airport freight shed.

And he said that he did not know if Police followed the packages from the Airport to the Federal Express office in Hamilton.

During the first day of the Supreme Court trial, former Federal Express manager Trenton Butterfield testified that the boxes in question were handled by a number of Federal Express employees both at the Airport and in Hamilton.

Mr. Butterfield also said the boxes were stored in an open area at the Hamilton Federal Express depot for a number of hours before they were put in Headlam's truck, and he said Headlam had shown no particular concern about the packages while on the job that day.

The trial continues today before Chief Justice Austin Ward.