Daniel Heaven: Fink jailed for selling coke from Somerville home

A nose candy-dealing Fink was later found illegally with bikie mates, including now-dead Shane Bowden, at a covert clubhouse.

Finks bikie Daniel Heaven was nabbed selling coke from his Somerville property.

A Finks bikie caught by Echo Taskforce cops dealing cocaine from his Mornington Peninsula property is now behind bars.

Daniel Heaven was arrested in June last year after officers found stashes of coke, digital scales, deal bags and a vial of testosterone.

The 31-year-old was bailed with conditions including not to associate with bikies, but he was caught at a covert clubhouse with other OMCG members just two months later.

One of those he was discovered with was Shane Bowden, the notorious Fink turned Mongol turned Fink involved in the infamous ‘ballroom blitz’ bikie brawl.

Bowden was shot dead on the Gold Coast in October last year.

Heaven pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine and possessing testosterone and bail and chief health officer’s directions breaches at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

The court heard on June 8 last year Echo officers executed a search warrant at Heaven’s Somerville home.

They found cocaine weighing a total of 23.9g in various locations around the property and a vial of testosterone in his bedroom.

A later analysis of the coke confirmed it was 20 per cent pure.

On August 6 last year police went to the scene of a non-suspicious death at an address in Mt Eliza.

There they found Heaven, other bikies, and Bowden.

A garage had been set up as an OMCG clubhouse with Finks paraphernalia and colours located inside.

As well as breaching bail, he was also violating the chief health officer’s directions by being out after curfew.

His defence lawyer said Heaven, an asbestos removal worker, had struggled in recent times to deal with the grief of losing six of his friends.

He said he did have drug problems, “getting into ice” about 10 years ago, but he had stopped using a while back.

He said then Covid hit, he lost his mates and he reverted to taking drugs again, this time choosing cocaine instead of meth.

Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge said the sale and use of illicit substances had a “destructive and corrupting influence” on the community.

“It is harmful and dangerous…. (the drugs) are not made by people in a laboratory setting, but by people who don’t know what they are doing,” Mr Lethbridge said.

“Their sale creates and feeds a black economy, it causes a culture of criminality.

“And this was not an insignificant amount, notwithstanding it was only 20 per cent purity.”

Heaven was jailed for six months, minus 159 days he has already served.

He was also fined $1650 for breaching Covid rules.