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Woman tells jury she saw Dublin with toolbox

A woman yesterday told a court she repeatedly lied to Police about her involvement in the alleged transportation of drugs and guns around the Island.

Tianna Paiva said she gave a lift to Kershun Dublin and an orange toolbox a few days after he is said to have conspired to import $25,000 worth of cannabis and possess four handguns and ammunition.

Ms Paiva told the jury she picked Dublin up in her car, and later stopped to collect the box, which Supreme Court has previously heard contained the drugs and weapons.

When she was arrested shortly after dropping off Dublin and the toolbox on Crane Lane, Pembroke, Paiva told officers she had in fact dropped them off on North Shore Road.

"I was scared; I was being interrogated about something I knew nothing about," Ms Paiva explained to the court yesterday.

Dublin, 25, was arrested along with fellow Pembroke residents Justin Calderon, 25, and Arthur Dill, 45, during a Police sting after the toolbox was discovered at the airport on April 28 last year.

Yesterday, the court heard Dublin called Ms Paiva — who had been dating his brother — and asked for a lift on September 8.

She picked him up from a car park near BAA and drove toward Hamilton, stopping to collect the toolbox, before heading to Crane Lane, where she said some men removed the box and carried it up the hill.

Ms Paiva said she then made her way to Bull's Head car park, where she was arrested.

During cross examination, Dublin's lawyer Charles Richardson said Ms Paiva lied to Police in two interviews that she had dropped them off in North Shore Road.

The witness agreed that was the case.

Calderon's lawyer John Perry QC said she lied ten times about where she had dropped off the box.

Dublin, Calderon and Dill deny conspiring to possess the firearms and ammunition, and conspiring to import the drugs. The trial continues.