Dandenong Magistrates’ Court: Andrew Schulberg told by magistrate to give up being a crook after latest offending spree

A bungling Clyde crook who was once busted stuffing desert and candy down his clothes at a supermarket has been told to go straight because he’s “not very good” at being a criminal.

Schulberg had already served 58 days in pre sentence detention and Magistrate Costas Kilias deemed that was enough.

A hapless Melbourne crook has been told to give up the criminal caper after he was busted stealing dessert from the supermarket.

Andrew Schulberg, of Clyde, appeared in the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday where he pleaded guilty to multiple charges including drug possession, theft and processing a weapon.

In February this year police were called to a residential street in Dandenong in the early hours of the morning to reports of someone graffitiing a fence.

Schulberg was found nearby a short time later in an underground carpark. When police searched him he had a kitchen knife, bank cards not in his name, spray paint cans, and a small amount of cannabis.

On April 17 Schulberg helped himself to almost $30 worth of desserts and candy from the Springvale Woolworths, stuffing them down the front of his clothing and in his bum bag.

In May Schulberg was found with a credit card and a knife and in August Schulberg was busted with a diazepam tablet which he thought was an aspirin at Springvale railway station.

In November 2022, Schulberg was found with a bag of yellow pills after police searched him at an address in Springvale.

Schulberg had already served 58 days in pre-sentence detention and Magistrate Costas Kilias deemed that was enough.

Mr Kilias told Schulberg he should “consider a career change” because he just wasn’t that good at being a criminal.

“Thirty two pages into his priors and maybe he’s starting to understand he’s not very good at it (being a criminal),” he said.

“In fact you’re very bad at it.”

The court heard Schulberg would begin working in a family pizza shop on his release and work on kicking his drug habit.