By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAN has pleaded guilty to trafficking after being caught with 900 prescription tranquilizer pills in a Dandenong North high school car park.
Andrew Daniel Schulberg was searched by police in Lyndale Secondary College about 2.50pm on 6 March 2015 after reports of a male walking in the area “punching the air and acting strangely”, a court was told.
Schulberg was in possession of 900 diazepam tablets in their original packaging, without a matching prescription, police prosecutor Senior Constable Tracey Arnold told the court on 15 February.
The accused admitted to police that he bought the drugs two days earlier at Dandenong railway station, presuming they were stolen goods.
Magistrate Gerard Bryant quipped that police were unable to accept there was the “equivalent of Costco” selling drugs at the station.
The accused claimed the drugs were for his personal use, though he didn’t have a prescription for diazepam.
Schulberg was also caught with a gram of cannabis in his jeans pocket by Dandenong Magistrates’ Court security officers on 11 November.
On 8 January he was searched by police after being observed getting into a car without number plates in Potter Street, Dandenong.
Two foils comprising one gram of heroin were found in his underwear.
He was also in possession of a multi-tool pocket knife – which he said was for “work purposes” – and several foils of cannabis totalling five grams which he dropped on the ground.
Schulberg’s lawyer said there was no evidence that the accused was trying to sell the 900 tablets.
“He was planning on taking them over a very long time.”
The accused had been off drugs for five years after a previous recovery program.
Mr Bryant ordered an assessment for a community corrections order including an “element of community work” and attendance at a drug awareness seminar.
