A Bermuda Narcotics Detective visited Honduras to investigate the type of T-Shirts with which eight packages of cocaine were smuggled to the Island.

Patrick Stamp, 20, of Middle Town Road, Pembroke is charged with importing 664.87 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of $168,750.

It is alleged that Stamp imported and had the cocaine with intent to supply to another person at the Bermuda International Airport on January 7, 2003.

The cocaine was allegedly found in four packages of Hanes T-shirts in Stamp?s luggage at the airport.

In Supreme Court on Thursday, Christian Soto, plant manager of the factory in Honduras which produces and exports Hanes T-shirts to the US, said the T-shirts which were found in Stamp?s luggage came from his factory.

Mr. Soto said he was production manager of the factory in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for 13 months, and was operations manager for one-and-a-half-years, before becoming plant manager in January.

He said while he was in Honduras, Narcotics Detective Jamiko Tucker presented him with T-shirts with Hanes wrapping.

?I inspected the T-shirts and wrapping and I noticed on the seal there was a defect. There was too much plastic,? Mr. Soto said. ?Something like this cannot happen at our plant.?

Prosecutor Anthony Blackman asked him if he made any observations about the T-shirts and he said the two T-shirts had the bottom hems removed.

?This shirt was made in our plant,? Mr. Soto said.

He said he could tell the shirt came from his factory because of the label and the number of stitches per inch in the hem.

But regarding the wrapping, he said the seal was very irregular.

?There are a lot of defects,? he said. ?A seal like that will never happen in our plant.?

He said the T-shirt was labelled ?imperfect? but had still been shipped to the US in a generic Hanes wrapper.

But under cross-examination, defence lawyer Craig Attridge asked Mr. Soto whether the average man on the street could tell whether the seal of a Hanes T-shirt bag had been tampered with ? Mr. Soto said he did not know.

Customs Officer Edward Lambert said he was part of the interdiction team at the Airport on January 7, 2003.

And he said he was the scribe when Det. Con. Tucker and Patrick Stamp went to the Hamilton Police Station.

The testimony of Det. Con. Stamp is expected today when the trial resumes before Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves.