Darlene Marie Hobson was supposed to be her friend. She was supposed to mind the purse strings of a $65,000 special needs trust fund set up to aid her with debilitating psychiatric issues. Instead, police say the 71-year-old woman from Brownsville, Ore. ripped off her friend of 20 years, stealing tens of thousands of dollars, a Buick and even the woman’s bed, all while she was in the hospital. Hobson’s now charged with first-degree identity theft, car theft and three counts of forgery.Charging documents, as reported by the PI, include testimony from Seattle Police Det. Elizabeth Litalien.”(She) trusted Hobson to be the trustee of her special needs trust because she believed that Hobson was one of her closest friends and would not take advantage of her,” Litalien told the court. “It is apparent that Hobson betrayed and took advantage of (her) when she was her most vulnerable. …The alleged victim lived in West Seattle since 2002, but in 2007 her condition worsened and she was hospitalized before moving to a nursing home.It was while the woman was in the hospital and feared to be dying that police say Hobson bilked the daylights out her. She supposedly charged $25,000 to her credit card and an undisclosed amount to her checking account, forged a fake sales certificate for the woman’s 1992 Buick Century and even stole her bed and other furniture, which, for a 71-year-old lady, would require either some help or some serious calcium supplements.Hobson appeared to betting that her friend would die and people would just assume that that money, furniture and American-built car were hers all along.That didn’t happen. The victim got better. And when she was released from the hospital, she came home to a house with no bed, a driveway with no car and a bank account with far less money than it should have had. It didn’t take long for her to find out who took it and tell police.Now, depending on the prosecution, Hobson may be headed to jail. The good news is she’d get her very own bed t and won’t have to steal anyone else’s, though depending who she bunks with, she may sometimes have to share.