A landscaper allegedly involved in a plot to retrieve nearly 300kg of imported cocaine from an excavator was recorded telling his business partner it would be "every man for himself" if things turned "to shit", a prosecutor has told a jury.
The trial of Queanbeyan resident Timothy John Engstrom, aged in his 30s, started in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty to a federal drugs charge.
