Houston woman caught stealing from purses in Friendswood nursing home.

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas—A Houston woman was caught August 9 going through an administrator’s purse at a nursing home in Friendswood. Treatha Robinson Johnson, 45, was arrested and charged with theft.

Friendswood police said Robinson was reported to have walked into an open office at the Heritage Nursing Home, located at 213 E. Heritage Dr., at about 9:40 a.m.

The administrator walked into the office and found Robinson going through the purse and holding a small make-up case behind the desk. Inside the make-up case was $250 worth of prescription medications and other items.

Robinson told the staff that she was at the facility to get information about the home for her mother.

While at the scene, officers discovered that Johnson had five outstanding warrants. There were four counts of credit card abuse from Montgomery County, each with a $1,500 bond and one count of credit card abuse from Galveston, with an $80,000 bond. Her bond was set at $1,000 for the theft.

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Vandals destroy cancer survivor flock of flamingos

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas—When Carla Stinson, of Friendswood, beat breast cancer a few years ago, she got back on her feet and started walking.

She finished two Susan G Komen walks. Each one was 60 miles long, and required Stinson to raise more than $2,000 to participate.

To raise money, she spent hundreds of dollars on nearly 50 flamingos. She placed them in her friends’ yards in a fundraising effort known as "flocking."

“The birds get thrown in the back of my SUV and I drive to the next house, sneak around before the sun comes up and put the birds in a yard,” she said. “It’s something that takes quite a bit of time and effort.”

Over the years, the flamingos helped her raise thousands of dollars.

But now, they have broken beaks and bent legs. During a recent flocking, a vandal tore them up.

“I’d say that 80 percent of them were just destroyed,” Stinson said. “Idle hands, idle minds.”

She now worries she may be short on funds to walk later this year.

She also worries she will lose training time as she fixes her flock.

And yet, it is still far from the most disheartening part.

“The people that suffer are the folks that don’t get the benefit of the money being raised,” she said.

It is money that Stinson may now have to find some other way