A customs officer admitted breaching his oath of office when he leaked information about a suspicious package to his alleged drug-smuggling accomplice.However, Bromwin Thompson strenuously denied suggestions he was guilty of plotting to import cannabis when a prosecutor quizzed him yesterday.The 36-year-old was working at the FedEx courier facility on Serpentine Road, Pembroke, in 2009 when two packages were intercepted by the authorities. They turned out to contain $54,725 of cannabis and cannabis resin.One was sent from New York and addressed to the Tio Pepe restaurant in Southampton. The other was sent from Ethiopia and addressed to the Paradise Gift Shop in St George.The trial has heard from managers at both establishments that they did not order the packages and had no idea of their contents.According to prosecutor Nicole Smith, Mr Thompson conspired with his friend, fisherman Shannon Berkley, 42, to import the drugs.She told the jury in her closing speech yesterday that Mr Thompson’s role was to look out for the drug packages and intercept them.She said records of phone calls and texts between the pair demonstrate this.Mr Thompson denies two charges of conspiring with Mr Berkley to import drugs and one of possessing them with intent to supply.When he gave evidence in his own defence on Wednesday, Mr Thompson admitted he had spoken with Mr Berkley via text and phone in relation to the Tio Pepe parcel.He told the jury Mr Berkley inquired whether it had arrived in Bermuda, and that it was not unusual for his friends to ask him to check whether packages had arrived.However, he admitted under cross-examination by Ms Smith yesterday that he should not have contacted Mr Berkley and told him the package in question looked suspicious and that he’d highlighted it for inspection.It turned out to contain 98.4 grams of cannabis in addition to the coffee machine it was listed to contain.“You put your livelihood, your career, on the line for this Tio Pepe package and its contents,” said Ms Smith.Mr Thompson agreed: “At that point I did. I was running my mouth and told him that the package had been highlighted.”However, he denied Ms Smith’s assertions that he did so because he knew drugs were inside and was working in tandem with Berkley to get them past other customs officers.In her closing speech, Ms Smith suggested the accused man was trying to mislead the jury.She pointed to evidence from other customs officers that Mr Thompson was seen on two occasions at the airport while the FedEx cargo jet was being unloaded, when he was not authorised to be there.She suggested he paid these unauthorised trips to the airport “in contemplation of” his alleged role in the conspiracy.However, in his closing speech, defence lawyer Charles Richardson said many aspects of the Crown’s case “don’t make sense” and he could hear the sound of “fingernails scraping the bottom of the barrel”.He questioned what Mr Thompson could have achieved by earmarking the Tio Pepe package for inspection if he was supposed to be helping smuggle it into the country.“Highlighting it would kill the conspiracy dead,” he said.He urged the jury to believe Mr Thompson’s evidence that he was not breaching policy when he was sent to the airport, and he’d been asked to attend the facility by his manager.He pointed out that Ms Smith never asked the manager, Senior Customs Officer Colin Smith, about this when he was on the witness stand.As for his client’s admission that he breached his oath of office, he said: “When it came to admitting something embarrassing and wrong, he did it. This is not a man trying to pull the wool over your eyes.”The case continues.