No further arrests have been made in a case of alleged drug smuggling involving Dennis Pamplin, the estranged husband of Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.

US narcotics investigators said the arrests of Pamplin and his alleged accomplice Brian Henry in New Jersey in July sparked a hunt for the Bermuda half of a major drug-running ring.

However, Doug Collier, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency's New Jersey Division said yesterday: "No-one else has been arrested or charged to this day."

He declined to give any further information, since proceedings against Pamplin and Henry are pending.

According to information previously released by the DEA, the pair were arrested at a warehouse in Orange, New Jersey, on July 15 after a sting by law enforcement officials resulted in a sniffer dog discovering 700 pounds of marijuana hidden inside concrete pillars there.

Officials also seized scales, pressing machines and vacuum sealing materials which they allege was consistent with packaging the drugs, according to court documents.

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said the raid was the culmination of a year-long operation involving Bermuda Police.

Both men were subsequently charged with conspiring to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana — with an estimated street value in Bermuda of $15 million — and remanded into custody.

Pamplin, also known as "Correction Officer King", has since been indicted on charges of conspiring with others to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms "of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana" from 2006 to July 2008.

He and co-conspirators are alleged to have met in the Bronx to falsify invoices used to ship the marijuana. He is further alleged to have, along with co-conspirators, distributed around 318 kilograms of marijuana on or around July 15.

Pamplin's lawyer Paul Bergrin is reported to have told other media that Pamplin is in the asbestos removal business and that he only stopped by the warehouse to check out a job. He is reported to have said that Pamplin was not aware that marijuana was on the premises. Mr. Bergrin did not return calls yesterday.

According to court documents, he is on home detention with electronic monitoring.

A felony information has been filed in the case of Henry, who faces one charge of conspiring with others to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana from 2006 through to July 2008. He pleaded not guilty on September 23 and a case conference has been listed before a judge on November 14.

Henry remains in custody.

His lawyer, Michael Hueston, has also declined to comment on the case.