The Entrance: Bandidos bikie Joshua Hugh Deane busted with his hands in a cocaine bowl

Bandidos bikie Joshua Hugh Deane should have been laying low on a good behaviour bond for supplying drugs. Instead he was caught wrist-deep in a bowl of cocaine, a court has heard.

Bandidos member Joshua Hugh Deane, 41, of The Entrance (right) with his lawyer Anthony Tashman (left) outside Wyong Local Court after a previous unrelated appearance. Picture: Facebook

A Bandidos bikie has opted to skip the usual evidentiary process and elected to go straight to jail while he awaits sentence for supplying almost a kilogram of cocaine.

Joshua Hugh Deane, 41, faced Wyong Local Court on Tuesday where his solicitor Anthony Tashman said his client wished to dispense with the usual early appropriate guilty plea (EAGP) process.

The EAGP process enables offenders to maintain their full 25 per cent discount for early guilty pleas while police compile their full brief of evidence, certify the charges the Crown intends to proceed with and enable defendants to have case conferences with the prosecution.

Instead Mr Tashman pleaded guilty on Deane’s behalf to one count of supplying a commercial quantity of cocaine and a secondary offence of failing to comply with a digital evidence access direction order.

After the pleas were entered the Crown prosecutor withdrew a further charge of supplying a commercial quantity of 1.3kg of cocaine and supplying 10.9g of meth.

Deane leaving Wyong Local Court after a previous, unrelated appearance. Picture: NewsLocal

Deane did not apply for bail and he was adjourned to Gosford District Court on July 3 to fix a sentence date.

An agreed set of facts states police were granted a search warrant to raid room 307 of the Ibis Styles hotel behind Diggers @ The Entrance on Monday, January 13.

Police busted him at the Ibis Styles Hotels behind Diggers @ The Entrance. (File image)

About 1pm specialist tactical officers attached to Raptor Squad North burst into the room and found Deane sitting in a pair of shorts at a small table.

“There was a clear glass square dish in front of him, containing white powder,” the facts state.

“He had white powder all over his fingers.

“Police took hold of the offender, pulling him away from the white powder, and secured him on the bed.”

Officers searched the room where they found an Apple iPhone and a Google mobile phone, a black folder containing documents and a diary, a glass dish containing white powder on the coffee table, 13 small freezer bags containing white powder, a flick knife, a set of scales and $3,360 cash in various $50 and $100 denominations.

Deane was caught with cocaine all over his fingers in room 307 at Ibis Styles hotel. (File image of one of the rooms)

Deane declined to answer any questions about the items found and was taken to Wyong Police Station where he was interviewed, during which he stated he was not going to answer any questions.

Police served him with an order to provide the PIN codes to unlock the two mobile phones but again he declined to respond.

All up the cocaine found in the hotel room, which was just a few blocks down the street from Deane’s McGirr Ave address at The Entrance, had a total weight of 935.84g.

The court heard Deane was on an 18-month intensive correction order at the time after he was sentenced last year for the deemed supply of 74g of cocaine he was found in possession of while sitting in a car at Long Jetty in September 2023.