Delta Airlines employee in plot to import $219,000 of cannabis, court
A Delta Airlines customer service agent was caught red-handed in a plot to import $219,000-worth of cannabis, a prosecutor has alleged.Opening the Supreme Court trial of 22-year-old Desmond Trott yesterday, Crown counsel Robert Welling described him as the "inside man" in the plot.Mr Welling explained the drugs in question came into Bermuda on a Delta flight on September 9, 2009, in two packages. They were hidden inside a box containing a large industrial vacuum cleaner. Another box in the shipment contained pet supplies, but no drugs.Mr Trott was caught out when a Customs officer challenged him on his suspicious behaviour as he tried to take the boxes out the back door of the freight shed after hours.“It's the prosecution's case that Desmond Trott is the inside man, because he worked for Delta as a customer service agent. He conspired with others to import that cannabis and proceeded, once it arrived, to handle that cannabis," said Mr Welling in his opening speech.Mr Trott, of Sofar Lane, St David's, denies conspiring with others not before the court to import cannabis and handling cannabis which was intended for supply and the case continues.