{"id":27812,"date":"2025-10-30T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27812\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:56:12","slug":"houston-brick-lady-sentenced-in-gofundme-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27812\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston &#8216;brick lady&#8217; sentenced in GoFundMe theft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/617AD80A9A4F329210D52F091989BBF7.jpg\" alt=\"Houston 'brick lady' sentenced in GoFundMe theft case\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/1732520\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston &#8216;brick lady&#8217; sentenced in GoFundMe theft case<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">In 2023, Roda Osman became known online as the &#8220;brick lady&#8221; after claiming that a man hit her in the head with a brick because she wouldn\u2019t give him her phone number. She went on to collect $42,000 through a GoFundMe campaign. On Wednesday, a jury found her guilty of theft, and she was sentenced to 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; In 2023, Roda Osman became known online as the &#8220;brick lady&#8221; after claiming that a man hit her in the head with a brick because she wouldn\u2019t give him her phone number. She went on to collect $42,000 through a GoFundMe campaign.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The verdict:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Wednesday, a jury found her guilty of theft, and she was sentenced to 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>  Why was &#8220;brick lady&#8221; charged? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/roda-osman.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Roda Osman (Courtesy of Harris County Jail) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to court records,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/woman-hit-in-face-with-brick-in-houston-says-man-attacked-her-for-not-giving-him-her-number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Osman said that on Sept. 3, 2023, she was walking when an unknown man hit her in the face with a brick<\/a>\u00a0after she refused to give him her number.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">However, authorities say surveillance video showed Osman getting into a verbal and physical altercation with a man. According to court documents, Osman hit the man in the face with an unknown object, and he then hit her in the face with what appeared to be a water bottle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Osman shared the incident of what happened on social media and collected $42,302 through her GoFundMe account. But authorities said it happened under a false claim of her being assaulted for refusing to share her phone number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from court documents and previous FOX 26 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston &#8216;brick lady&#8217; sentenced in GoFundMe theft case In 2023, Roda Osman became known online as the &#8220;brick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-27812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}