Credit Card Thief Sentenced

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Angela Mae Nichols, 31, of Charleston, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by another two and a half years on home confinement for stealing credit cards in several counties. Police say Nichols and her husband, 43 year old Charles Allen Burns, were arrested in December after police discovered their crimes during a routine traffic stop. Nichols told Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman that drugs were to blame for the string of purse thefts from homes and vehicles in Kanawha, Putnam, Cabell, Logan, Braxton, Boone, Fayette, Clay, Harrison and Greenbrier Counties. Kaufman refused her request to be placed in a drug treatment facility and ordered her to make restitution to victims.