Heroku won't execute db inserts in catch statment

Question

We're trying to deal with Stripe error throws and I was wondering if anyone could tell me why db inserts won't execute in a catch statement on production though it works on our development server. Or if anyone knows where we turn off the feature in our heroku production stack?

catch(err){
  await SomeCollection.create({
    value: somevalue
  });
  throw new Error(err);
}