of importing $75,000 worth of cannabis in 1999.

Yesterday Janeene Lashae Harris was found guilty of importing and possessing 1,532 grammes of cannabis with intent to supply on May 22, 1999.

Harris denied the charges but after a week-long trial, the jury returned a majority guilty verdict to the charges.

The nine-woman, three-man jury was directed to render a not guilty verdict on a charge of conspiracy to import the cannabis.

Defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher left the court room clearly upset by the verdict but would not comment about the progression of the case or the sentence.

She said: "I don't want to speculate in the paper.'' Harris' cousin, Nathaniel Colin Washington, pleaded guilty last week to importing a controlled drug and will be sentenced in February.

Harris denied knowing there were drugs in a luggage bag the co-accused had loaned her after several days of shopping in New Jersey.

She was stopped by US Customs on her way to the US and questioned about her travels but allowed to go on.

The US Customs officer noted a phone number and Washington's name in her personal effects.

Bermuda Narcotics officers swooped in on Harris upon her return and discovered the drugs in a plastic wrap package in the false bottom of one of her bags.

Washington's fingerprints were found on the package and he was arrested when he arrived in Bermuda the day after Harris.

The pair was charged in early May of 2000 -- just days short of the one-year maximum for Police to charge someone.

Puisne Justice Norma Wade-Miller ordered a social inquiry report and set down a sentencing date of February 1.

Crown counsel Dorien Taylor said he would not presume to estimate what the sentence would be, saying: "That is completely beyond my province.''