smuggler Larry Ebbin and his roommate Dexter Dillas were his best customers.

Antonio Miranda said he distributed cocaine to many locals on a regular basis.

But Ebbin and Dillas received the biggest share -- a half to one kilo -- of each monthly cocaine shipment. The shipments ranged between one and two kilos.

The 27-year-old Casemates prisoner did not disclose the names of the other Bermudians to whom he said he sold cocaine.

Miranda was testifying on the fourth day of 35-year-old Ebbin's trial. He told jurors he joined the Miami-based Cuban drug organisation in 1986 after meeting one of its ring leaders, Marcus Cojab, on a work-release programme in Florida.

But he said the Cubans had been running drugs to Bermuda since about 1980 and were the Island's "main suppliers of cocaine''.

The Court heard the reason they were so keen to do "business'' in Bermuda was because they could sell a kilo of cocaine in Bermuda for quadruple its wholesale price in Miami.

Miranda said a kilo of cocaine cost around $11,000-$15,000 in Miami, while it fetched between $50,000 and $60,000 in Bermuda.

He said he was introduced to the accused and Dillas through one of the Cubans' drug couriers, Victor Alongi, now in a US prison.

Alongi had been "tortured'' on board one of the Cubans' private yachts when they learned he had made drug runs to Bermuda on his own. He agreed to introduce them to his Bermuda connections so he would not be killed.

While in Bermuda, Miranda said four different drug couriers brought cocaine to the Island: Deborah Owens, Deborah Burns, Victor Alongi and Angela Trapasso.

He went on to tell of the shipments which he claimed Ebbin and Dillas were involved in.

Burns brought two kilos of cocaine to Bermuda via air in January 1990, of which he delivered one kilo to Ebbin and Dillas at the Whaler Inn beach club for $60,000, he said.

"The rest I distributed in ounces to different customers on the Island,'' he said, adding he charged between $2,000 and $2,500 an ounce.

In mid-February of 1990, Trapasso -- now in jail at the Co-Ed Facility -- arrived with another two kilos of cocaine.

Dillas called and said he and Ebbin needed about ten ounces, Miranda said, and he delivered it to their Lighthouse Hill, Southampton apartment.

Later that day Dillas called back and said they needed ten more ounces of cocaine, which he also brought over. Around 10 p.m., Dillas called again, saying he needed yet another ten ounces of the drug.

But Miranda said he told them it was too late and that he would bring the cocaine the next day. When he arrived, he saw Dillas and Ebbin on the floor counting what looked like at least $300,000, of which they owed him just $20,000.

"I told them they were crazy for leaving that kind of money lying around and they just laughed -- they were showing off,'' he said.

The next cocaine shipment was not until late March, Miranda said. He told Crown counsel Mr. Diarmuid Doorly the reason was because "Miami was dry''.

Police had found a two-ton shipment of cocaine concealed in a cargo of wooden planks, he said.

Miranda claimed that before the next batch of cocaine arrived on the Island, Ebbin approached him and asked if he would deliver to him and Colin Smith without telling Dillas.

"They wanted to do business on the side because Dillas was becoming arrogant,'' Miranda said.

He said he told them he would think about it but when the shipment arrived he called Smith and asked how much they wanted. He said he brought them 15 ounces.

Trapasso brought the next shipment of cocaine in April, followed by AIDS victim Daniel Latini, who has since died. He claimed that on each of those shipments he delivered cocaine to Ebbin and Dillas.

Miranda, who lived in three apartments while in Bermuda -- the last one at McGall's Hill in Smith's Parish -- told the jury the Cubans paid him $300-$400 for every ounce delivered to Bermuda.

He continues his testimony today before Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade.

Ebbin has denied importing cocaine between May 11 and May 20 of 1990 and conspiring to import the drug between October 1988 and May 17 1990 with others not before the court.