Murder suspect Robert Blair Tucker revealed how deeply he had penetrated the Bermuda Police Service?s Narcotics Department by telling two top detectives the names of four officers and his dealings with them.

And the ten woman, two man Lagoon Park murder jury heard that one officer caused Tucker to be isolated while at Hamilton Police Station after trying to see him in his cell ? three days after he was arrested on a minor charge of credit by fraud ? meant to hold him for questioning on the discovery of a body.

When the attempt was made, Tucker was a prime suspect in the death of an American man, Stanley Lee, for whom he had rented an apartment.

But the judge, Puisne Justice Norma Wade Miller slapped an order banning the publication of the officers? names, citing continuing investigations and prosecution.

Mrs. Justice Wade Miller told the jury that she made a suppression order on the four names to ensure that pre-trial publicity does not jeopardise their right to a fair trial.

She told the jury she had ordered ?the suppression of the names of ?Officer A? and all other serving police officers? who Tucker names in his statements. ?I?m speaking to all people in the court, but particularly the member of the press (who is) present,? Mrs. Justice Wade Miller said, adding: ?I make the order that the names not be published.?

When inquiries were made yesterday of Police on the current employment status of the four officers, a spokesman said: ?It is inappropriate in the context of an ongoing Supreme Court trial for the Bermuda Police Service to comment on internal disciplinary matters that may or may not have been raised in that trial.?

Tucker detailed his contacts with three of the officers in two statements he made late on August 12, 2001 to veteran detectives Sylvester Augustine and Terry Maxwell in the Major Incident Room.

Tucker, James (Spook) Dill and Terranz (Monster) Smith deny killing ex-con Mr. Lee on July 28, 2001 in an isolated part of the little used Lagoon Park, on Ireland Island South.

The Crown, led by Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser allege that Tucker stabbed Mr. Lee that afternoon after relations turned sour after it was discovered that cocaine he had imported into the Island was of poor quality.

A burly ex-con, Mr. Lee had allegedly begun to demand the return of the remaining drug and any money generated from sales.

Tucker said he paid two officers ? ?A? and ?B? ? to go to New York to buy one-and-a-half kilos of cocaine in February 1999 and import it into Bermuda.

Det. Sgt. Maxwell revealed he ordered that Tucker be isolated from contacts with anyone other than himself and another senior officer after ?Officer B? tried to see him in the Police station.

Under cross-examination by Tucker?s lawyer Larry Scott, Det. Sgt. Maxwell admitted he ?perceived an apprehension? by Tucker as he began to spill the beans.

When Det. Sgt. Maxwell denied that he showed Tucker a list of officers who were suspected of illegal activities, Mr. Scott said: ?Then Officer Maxwell, I must put it to you that you show my client a list of dirty cops.?

?No I didn?t,? Det. Sgt. Maxwell replied. ?I didn?t even know the names until I was told them by Mr. Tucker.?

Later, he said he called Hamilton Police Station ?after I had been given evidence of police improprieties and one of the officers named attempted to see Mr. Tucker?.

With that, Mr. Scott asked: ?So the investigating officers in this whole matter were aware that there was certain ? I wouldn?t place it so high as to say threats ? but officers might get to Tucker??

?Yes,? Det. Sgt. Maxwell replied.

?What was the name of the officer?? Mr. Scott pressed, to which he was told ?Officer B?.

In his statements Tucker told Police: ?If I had someone coming in on a flight I usually contacted ?Officer A? and sometimes ?Officer B? and described my people to them and they would escort them through.

?I would basically give them a fee. For a kilo (of cocaine making it through) I would basically give them a third of the money which is between $10,000 and $15,000.?

Tucker said he paid ?Officer A? $5,000 for helping the passage through the airport of a courier named Humphries in July 2001 at the behest of Mr. Lee. It is that package, prosecutors believe that would ultimately lead to Mr. Lee?s stabbing death.

He continued: ??Officer A? is my man at the airport. I tell ?A? that I have something coming and what the person looks like and sometimes he?ll bring him right to me. Yes, I pay him.

??Officer B? would let certain people on the Island for me. And I gave her between $5,000 and $6,000 for half a kilo. No, I didn?t give her a loan. I asked her to do something for me and would give her the money.?

The two other officers, ?C? and ?D? just ?provided info? into where the Narcotics department officers were ?concentrating their effort and where they were targeting ? that sort of thing?, Tucker explained.

?One time I had a contact in Nigeria where I got the best heroin on the market. I sent someone and ?A? was to get the package from them and bring it to me and he did,? Tucker continued.

?I had a man in ?Country A? named Danny Roland and ?Officer C? was friends with him and he would meet with him at the airport. I?ve never given him (?C?) any money.?

Tucker gave detectives Maxwell and Augustine officer ?A? and ?B??s pager and telephone numbers, adding that he also kept their numbers in a grey folder at home.

And he said he sent Officer ?B? and ?A? to New York between February 10 and 14, 1999 to pick up a drug consignment for him. He said ?Officer B? paid for the tickets on a personal credit card and was paid $14,000 while Officer A got $3,000.

And he admitted to Maxwell and Augustine that by the time of his arrest, he had paid up to $100,000 to ?Officer B?.

Mr. Ratneser ? who is being assisted by Crown counsels Juan Wolffe and Cindy Clarke ? is expected to call his last witness on Monday.