yesterday after four days of prosecution witness testimony.

Ming, 29, of Beacon Hill, Sandys, is alleged to have imported more than $35,000 worth of cocaine in a General Electric stove on February 2, 1994.

In a barely audible voice, Ming explained he was a regular overseas shopper because the prices were better.

The court heard he had visited the United States with his mother last year to buy household items because they were renovating two apartments.

Ming said he was familiar with Connecticut and New Jersey because he attended Cornell University and the University of New Haven.

On January, 22, he agreed to help his wife furnish her Devonshire apartment after they split up over her alleged infidelity, because his daughter would be living there with her.

He said he wanted to provide a proper environment for her.

Meanwhile, Ming said he was able to purchase the range although he was unsuccessful in securing the living room furniture they selected during a December trip.

Ming said he broke up with his wife after he discovered that she was involved in an extra-marital affair.

During a trip to the United States he was given a phone bill where several of the calls were made while he left his wife alone at the hotel.

He discovered she had made calls to Police headquarters at Prospect and a local business.

"I identified who she called when I came back to Bermuda (in December) and confronted her.

"That led to her eventual departure from our Somerset address.'' On Thursday narcotics department head Det. Chief Insp Norvell Hull admitted that he stopped investigating allegations of sexual impropriety against another officer after he discovered the officer had a relationship with Ming's wife during the summer of 1993.

Chief Inspector Hull said he initiated an investigation on Wednesday.

The investigation, the court heard, was the outcome of allegations that narcotics officers were involved in a clandestine affair with Ming's wife.

Once he said he discovered there was a relationship, he chose not to press the inquiry any further because the officer -- P.c. Rudy Richardson -- was not an integral part of the Ming investigation.

Customs officers found the cocaine inside a GE stove Ming had purchased in the United States and shipped to Bermuda.

The stove arrived on board the Oleander on January 30. Customs searched it on February 2.

Police were notified after the drugs were found inside a ziploc bag and they substituted the drugs package for a dummy package and followed the delivery truck to Ming's wife's Devonshire apartment.

They kept a constant watch on the apartment until Ming came home with his wife and child that evening around 5:30 p.m.

Fifteen minutes later, Police saw Ming leave the apartment on a motorcycle, and chased him.

He managed to escape along a dirt path near St. Brendan's Hospital.

Later Police and Customs officers went back to the site and searched the area finding the dummy package in some bushes.

The case continues on Monday in Supreme Court before Puisne Judge the Hon.

Mrs. Justice Wade.