The informant who helped federal agents build a drug case against dancehall deejay Buju Banton has been paid $3.3 million US dollars for helping law enforcement in numerous cases over several years, lawyers said in court Thursday morning.

Bujus attorney David Oscar Markus told U.S. Magistrate Thomas Wilson that prosecutors have not provided enough information about the informant for him to be prepared to cross-examine him at Buju's trial, scheduled for April 19.

The informant whose name was not disclosed in court is a legal, permanent resident of the United States from Colombia and was granted that immigration status after law enforcement requested it.

Buju is being held without bail on charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting his co-defendants in possessing a firearm during the course of cocaine distribution.

Buju Bantons attorney David Oscar Markus, said he plans to argue that the deejay was entrapped by the informant, who pestered him for months to join him in a cocaine deal.