drugs a month before she was arrested.

And two friends of Robin Young said they tried to talk her out of bringing cocaine with a street value of $42,375 into Bermuda.

Young, of Boundary Terrace, and Jacqueline Martells, 22, of New York City, are jointly charged in Supreme Court with conspiracy to import and importation of controlled drugs onto the Island. Young is also charged with possession and handling of cocaine.

A former boyfriend of Young, Dupray Joell and his friend, Raymond Raynor, claimed she told them that she intended to import drugs before Sunday, February 9, when she was arrested at the Civil Air Terminal.

Raynor said Young told him her Aunt Shirleen had asked her to bring drugs into the country. He said: "I advised Robin not to do it.'' He denied an accusation by Mr. Archie Warner, representing Young, that he was lying for Joell.

Joell said he had received a phone call from Young in New York. He phoned her back and, after an argument over other matters, she told him she was going to import drugs.

He told the court that Young told him she was scared. He said: "I told her to come home and leave everything there. She said she had to call her Aunt Shirleen and ask if she could come home. She called me back and said that she could not.

"I told her if she was bringing back drugs I did not want anything to do with her. I have not spoken to her since.'' The court heard that Customs officers stopped Young at the airport on February 9. Former officer Mrs. Amanda Corday said: "I told her I wanted to look at a couple of things in her bag. She said: `You want to look in there?' "I felt at the bottom of her bag which felt soft and lumpy. This made me very suspicious because most carry-on bag bottoms are hard.'' Mrs. Corday said that a small part of a white plastic package was visible. The bottom of the bag was torn open to reveal two bags containing white powder.

She said Young denied the bag was her property.

Under cross examination, Mrs. Corday said: "Her actions were not consistent with the average reaction of a person being stopped by Customs officers.

"It's unusual for someone to say `You have to look in my bag?' She said it with fear.''.

Senior Government Analyst Dr. Alan Young said one bag weighed 60.6 grams and contained a cocaine concentration of approximately 90 percent. The other weighed 60.7 grams of 89 percent pure cocaine.

He said that there was enough to produce approximately 339 half gram "wraps'' which narcotics officer Det. Con. Ronald Green said would be worth $42,375.

"When that amount of drugs is found it would normally be for supply,'' Det.

Con. Green said.

The case is being heard by Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Ward. Crown Counsel Mr. Brian Calhoun is prosecuting.