Opposition MP Pat Gordon-Pamplin said she will not resign nor did she know anything about her husband's arrest in connection with $15 million worth of drugs destined for Bermuda.

Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin said, in fact, she only found out about Dennis Pamplin's arrest through the news media on Thursday evening.

Mr. Pamplin was arrested along with a second man, Brian Henry on Tuesday evening by the New Jersey Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

According to a press release on the DEA website the two men were arrested after a police dog sniffed out 700 pounds of marijuana hidden inside concrete pillars at a warehouse in Orange, New Jersey.

Last night the Shadow Minister of Works and Engineering and former Deputy Leader of the UBP said she could not take responsibility for someone else's actions.

She said: "There's no more I can say (since Friday). It has to play itself out. I don't know what else I can say. I am shocked and was only informed by the news media.

"For those who are asking that I step down, I don't know how I can take on the action of someone else?"

Also seized from within the warehouse were scales, hydraulic pressing machines, vacuum-sealing materials, and disc shaped steel moulds.

The drug-bust on Tuesday was the culmination of a year-long investigation in conjunction with the Bermuda Police Service.

According to the DEA press release, since July 2007, Brian Henry had assisted Dennis Pamplin in packaging more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana for approximately five different shipments to Bermuda.

The street value of these drugs in Bermuda would be $15 million.

Last night Minister of Home Affairs, Senator David Burch commended both services for continuing to keep Bermuda safe.

He said: "I must commend the BPS and the DEA for their diligent work. Drugs continues to be a scourge on our society, and thanks to their joint efforts a large quantity of the substance has been successfully intercepted and kept out of our neighbourhoods and communities."

Both Pamplin and Henry were charged in the Southern District of New York with conspiracy to unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilos and more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana.

Henry was remanded into custody of the US Marshals Service with no bail and Pamplin was remanded into custody of the US Marshals Service in lieu of a $3 million personal recognisance bond.