A Supreme Court judge yesterday rejected a bid to seize $343,000 worth of assets held by a convicted drugs trafficker.

Assistant Justice Charles-Etta Simmons ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that the assets belonging to Anthony Quinton Beach, 39, had been derived from drug trafficking.

Beach, of Aerial View Road, Devonshire, who along with Kirk Randolph Simmons pleaded guilty to importing a $1.7 million worth of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy to the Island on March 8 of last year, will be sentenced in September for the offences.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told the court that it was the Crown's position to uphold their request for a confiscation order be put in place that would see $343,000 worth of Beach's assets placed to the courts.

The court heard that Beach had been sending money out of the country to the mothers of his children both in the US and Jamaica and that he had given around $10,000 to his father to take care of bills.

The court also heard that on three trips to Jamaica, Simmons carried with him $9,000 for the drugs.

But lawyer Larry Mussenden told Assistant Justice Simmons that the prosecution had not provided any information to support their claim.

"They have to show that Mr. Beach received $110,000 as a result of drug trafficking," said Mr. Mussenden. "The only evidence they have is his statement."

In her ruling Justice Simmons said that the evidence presented by the prosecution was made in a question-and-answer session with Police after which Beach was taken for treatment for heroin withdrawal and that Beach later recanted what he had said.