A court has heard how a parcel containing a stash of cocaine with a street value of $30,000 was left at an airport warehouse for 11 days. But warehouse staff became suspicious and alerted Police when nobody arrived to claim the parcel.

Yesterday, on the first day of evidence in the trial of Alexander Ming and Kenneth Durrant, the Supreme Court jury heard how officers returned the parcel to the International Bonded Couriers depot and finally arrested Ming when he came to pick up the consignment.

Ming, 42, is charged with importing the cocaine into Bermuda between June 21 and July 1 last year, as well as possession of the drug, while 48-year-old Kenneth Durrant is charged with possession of cocaine.

At the time of his arrest, Ming was of no fixed abode, while Durrant was living on Ord Road in Warwick.

Crown Prosecutor Juan Wolfe told the court how 111 grams of Cocaine were found in a box which had been sent to the IBC warehouse at the airport.

Former IBC employee Michael Sousa testified that the package had arrived at the warehouse on June 21 last year but then remained uncollected for 11 days -- a fact that caused IBC staff to become suspicious.

Also giving evidence was IBC President Glen Smith, who said he handed the suspect package over to the Police after staff spoke to him about their concerns.

He added that the invoice attached to the package appeared to be fake as it was scrunched up in the plastic envelope, it had been typed, and had spelling mistakes.

He said that Police gave the box back to him and waited for someone to come and collect it.

Ming was arrested when he came to pick up the package, which contained toys as well as the cocaine.

Several other procedural matters surrounding the clearance of packages through IBC were examined before Mr. Smith's evidence was completed.

The trial continues today.