Jeffrey Micheal Firkin, 50, sentenced on gun and drug charges after Weston raid

A Life and Death bikie found with nearly three ounces of methamphetamine and over a kilogram of cannabis told police the five guns hidden under his bed were found in his house only after his flatmate died. Police didn’t believe him.

Some of the weapons seized from Jeffrey Micheal Firkin's house at Weston. Picture: Supplied.

Bikie Jeffrey Firkin readily admitted to raiding police he had some “pot” in an ice-cream container and there were some gel blasters belonging to a family member inside his house before taking ill and being rushed to hospital.

The pot ended up being over 1.2kg of cannabis leaf in various packages, and the Life and Death gang member forgot to mention a few other things inside his bedroom.

Like the 78 grams of methamphetamine placed in almost one-ounce lots in some drawers and the five firearms hidden under his bed.

And he would later tell detectives that the guns belonged to his old housemate and owner of the home in Weston, near Cessnock, who had died seven months earlier.

“In relation to the shotguns and the ammunition, the offender told police that he was cleaning up the house [nine days before the raid] when he located the shotguns and bags of ammunition in a room at the house,” a statement of agreed facts said.

“He placed them under his bed for the time being until he could talk to his late friend’s daughter in relation to disposing of them (it is not in dispute that the offender said these words. However, the Crown does not accept the truthfulness of this assertion.”

One of the guns found during the search of the Weston home. Picture: Supplied.

And they were quite the find for police – the cache including a Miroku shortened 12-gauge single barrel shotgun, a Squires Bingham (Stirling) shortened .22 calibre self-loading rifle, a Boito 12-gauge single barrel shotgun, a Lithgow .410 calibre bolt-action repeating shotgun, and a Uberti shortened .44-40 calibre revolving carbine.

Nearly two years after the raid on May 25, 2022, Firkin was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court this week to a maximum five years and nine months in jail for a range of charges.

Guns and other items seized by police after raiding Life and Death bikie gang member Jeffrey Firkin's home at Weston as part of Operation Hawk on May 25, 2022. Picture: NSW Police.

They included supplying an indictable mount of methamphetamine, possessing more than three unregistered firearms including prohibited firearms, and the unauthorised possession of a prohibited weapon, being a battery-powered automatic gel ball air gun fitted with a laser pointer

Firkin, now aged 50, also asked Judge Troy Anderson to take into account some other charges, including possessing 1243 grams of cannabis, dealing in the proceeds of crime after over $5000 cash was seized, and possessing some other weapons.

Those weapons included a set of knuckledusters, which Firkin had told police he had used to carry shopping bags and for fishing.

The cannabis was his “medication”, he told detectives.

Judge Anderson set a non parole period of three years and nine months.

With time already served, Firkin will be eligible for release on April 30, 2026.