The jury hearing the case of three men accused of a guns and drugs plot toured the neighbourhood at the centre of the allegations yesterday.

Pembroke residents Justin Calderon and Kershun Dublin, both 25, and Arthur Dill, 45, were arrested during a Police sting mounted after four guns, 164 bullets and $25,000 worth of cannabis were found in a courier box at the airport last April.

They deny conspiring to possess the firearms and ammunition, and conspiring to import the drugs.

The contraband was concealed in an orange toolbox packed inside a DHL courier box, which was mailed from Florida. A sniffer dog was alerted to the drugs during a search at the airport last April 28.

The jury has heard from prosecution witnesses how Police officers decided to carry out a "controlled delivery" of the parcel. They removed the illegal items from it and put it back into the DHL circulation to see who picked it up.

Prosecutor Robert Welling has alleged that ten days later, each of the three defendants "became involved in possession of the box". Dill admits to having attended the DHL offices in Serpentine Road, Pembroke, and signed for the box using the name Terry Stevens.

He said he did it after being offered the job as a "hustle" for Dublin who he knew by the nickname Smalls.

A friend of Dublin's, Tianna Paiva, told the court earlier this week that she assisted Dublin to move the box by transporting it in her car to Crane Lane, Pembroke, where some men removed the box and carried it up the hill.

In answer to cross-examination from Calderon's lawyer, John Perry QC, yesterday, Police Sergeant Brian Mello admitted that surveillance officers who were tracking the box after it was collected from DHL lost sight of it during the operation, but later found it again.

According to prosecutor Mr. Welling, the box ended up being "spirited away" from Ms Paiva's car to a shed in Mission Lane, Pembroke, adjacent to Calderon's home address. He alleges that it was handled at this point by three or four men including Calderon and Dublin whose palm prints were later found on the box, under the outer wrappings.

Police arrived on the scene soon after the box was taken away, and Calderon and Dill were later arrested. Dill, of Orchard Grove, Pembroke, was detained in nearby Footpath Lane. Calderon was found in Crane Lane, walking away from Mission Lane.

According to Sergeant Mello, who was present when Calderon was arrested, he stated that he'd helped carry the box with his cousin down the hill. He described Calderon as "very nervous, and sweating profusely." The court heard on Tuesday that Calderon initially told Sgt. Mello that his cousin was "Smalls" but then stopped speaking.

The jury was yesterday transported to the Pembroke neighbourhood to look at the layout of the roads in question. Crane and Mission Lanes both run uphill from North Shore, parallel to each other. Both meet Footpath Lane at the top. The case continues.