A call to DHL was made from the home address of a man accused of a drugs and gun plot one day after a DHL package containing the contraband was found at the airport, a jury heard yesterday.

Justin Calderon, 25, is accused along with two other men of involvement in a conspiracy that saw four guns, 164 bullets and $25,000 worth of cannabis flown into Bermuda by courier, stashed in a toolbox.

He, and his co-accused Kershun Dublin, 25, and Arthur Dill, 45, deny conspiring with each other and persons not before the court to possess the firearms and ammunition and to import the drugs.

Their Supreme Court trial has previously heard how Police discovered the contraband on April 28 last year and monitored the courier package until it was picked up from DHL on May 8.

Dill attended the DHL offices on that date and signed for the box under the name it was addressed to a Terry Stevens in Smith's, who prosecutors say had not ordered the package. Dill later told the Police he did not know what was inside, and had done the job as a $20 "hustle" for Dublin.

Later, according to prosecution witnesses, Dublin and a friend, Tianna Paiva, transported the box in her car to Crane Lane, Pembroke. Although Police lost track of the box, prosecutors say it was "spirited away" by some men. It was later found by the Police in a shed in nearby Mission Lane, next to Calderon's residence.

Prosecutors allege that all three defendants were involved in the possession of the box at this point, with Calderon and Dublin's fingerprints later discovered on it, underneath where the outer wrappings had been.

Calderon and Dill were arrested in the same Pembroke neighbourhood during the Police operation on May 8. Dublin was arrested after a two-month search for him on July 15.

Yesterday, Helen Minors, finance and billing administrator at the Bermuda Telephone Company, told the jury about a landline telephone number registered to someone named Gail Calderon at Calderon's residence in Mission Lane. On April 29 last year, this number called a number registered to the DHL parcel firm. The call, at 11.59 a.m, lasted for 19 seconds. A second call was placed to the DHL number at 3.22 p.m on April 30, and connected for one minute and 14 seconds.

Questioned by Calderon's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher, Ms Minors said it was not possible to tell whether the phone calls connected to a person or an answerphone.

In other evidence yesterday, the jury heard from the owner of Mail 'N Stuff, a packing and shipping store in Deland, Florida. David Maynard told how a heavy-set, dark-skinned black male came to the store around 2 p.m. last April 22 and asked to ship a construction box and tools to Bermuda.

Mr. Maynard said the store's CCTV cameras captured the image of the male, who looked to be around 260-270 lbs, around 5ft 9in or 5ft 10in and bald. This picture was shown to the jury. Mr. Maynard said the man had an accent that was not local to his area of the United States. He said: "It's a bit of the same accent that I'm hearing here on the Island." But in answers from Dublin's lawyer Charles Richardson, and Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves, he could not be certain whether it was a Bermudian accent.

Mr. Maynard said the man put some tools inside the box before it was shipped, with the shipping bill totalling around $765. Prosecutor Robert Welling inquired: "When you told the gentleman that, what was the reaction?" The witness replied: "He said 'no problem, I'll be back in a minute.' He walked out of my store to his truck and then came back and paid in cash."

The case continues.