WARWICK — Richard Flamand, the Rhode Island Air National Guard recruiter charged with selling drugs from his office, was in District Court on Tuesday seeking to be released on bail.

After hearing two hours of questioning of a state trooper by Flamand’s lawyer, Richard A. Ciccone, Judge Frank J. Cenerini continued the session to Thursday afternoon.

Flamand, 31, has been held at the Adult Correctional Institutions since his arrest on June 1. It was on that day that members of a state police drug trafficking task force and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations searched his home, at 33 Circle Drive in Coventry. There, he signed a consent form allowing them to conduct a search in his recruiting office.

The investigators said they seized a small amount of drugs at Flamand’s home and 1,000 doses of prescription medicine, 41 grams of cocaine and a quantity of marijuana from filing cabinets at his office, on Oaklawn Avenue in Cranston.

Flamand’s lawyer contended that the written consent did not extend to the filing cabinets.

Under questioning, state police Cpl. Timothy Sanzi acknowledged that nearly all of the drugs that were seized came from the cabinets. In one of them, he said, a small safe yielded 1,000 tablets of prescription medicine, cocaine and a scale.

In the other cabinet, he said, investigators found a lock box, disguised as a dictionary, containing more than $6,000.

Special Assistant Attorney General John Corrigan said the state would be able to prove that Flamand was selling drugs from both the recruiting office and from his home. But Ciccone said there are a number of discrepancies in the affidavits from law enforcement investigators as to when agents arrived at Flamand’s house, how or when he was told of his right to have a lawyer present, and the time he signed the form consenting to a search of his truck and his office.

The lawyer also questioned whether the police had enough evidence to back up a search warrant, insisting that what they saw as questionable meetings with a large number of people while conducting surveillance could instead have been the normal activity of a recruiter trying to talk to as many people as possible.

Cenerini said that line of questioning might be suitable during a trial, but not at a bail hearing and repeatedly called on the lawyer to “move on.”

rdujardi@projo.com