A 26-year-old Indianapolis woman is facing a long list of charges after court documents describe a chaotic string of break-ins, thefts and a stolen car that stretched from a convenience store to a funeral home to a car dealership on the city's east side. Sabrea Vickers was eventually caught a day later when Greenfield police spotted the stolen vehicle during a routine patrol.
According to court documents cited by WTHR, Vickers broke into a convenience store, a funeral home and stole a vehicle from a car dealership before being caught. The convenience-store and funeral-home incidents took place on or near East Washington Street by Emerson Avenue, while the gas-station and car-dealership incidents occurred on North Shadeland Avenue, according to a probable cause affidavit cited by the station.
A Morning of Alleged Break-Ins on the East Side
Around 6:30 a.m. on September 15, a suspect broke into a convenience store and took more than $2,000 in cash, the probable cause affidavit states, per the same account. About a half hour later, roughly 7 a.m., a suspect broke into a funeral home on East Washington Street and ransacked it, the affidavit says. Investigators also allege the suspect defecated in a closet inside the funeral home.
A witness from a nearby church reported seeing an unidentified person handling belongings that appeared to belong to a deceased funeral-home client, according to court documents. Police later found blood traces on a broken funeral-home window along with metal clippers nearby, the affidavit states. Around 9:50 a.m. that same day, police received a report of attempted entry at a second funeral home in the same area, where they found blood on the doors as well as suitcases and mail that appeared to have been taken from nearby houses, per the probable cause affidavit.
Security Footage Leads to an Identification
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department sent officers an email seeking help identifying the suspect using security footage from the convenience store, court documents say. An IMPD officer later identified the suspect as Sabrea Vickers, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Later that evening, around 5:27 p.m., police responded to a call at a gas station in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, court documents state. Vickers allegedly took store items and put them in her bag, then allegedly hit a witness who confronted her, according to the same documents. She is also accused of throwing a piece of firewood through a glass door, shattering it, before fleeing the gas station.
From a Car Dealership to a Traffic Stop in Greenfield
From there, Vickers allegedly went to a car dealership in the 1600 block of North Shadeland Avenue near East 16th Street and tried to buy a vehicle, according to the probable cause affidavit. When that didn't work, she allegedly stole multiple sets of dealership keys, tested them on several vehicles, and drove away in one of them, with surveillance video capturing the theft, per the affidavit.
The next day, Greenfield police spotted the stolen car while on patrol and stopped the driver because the vehicle had no license plate and was heavily damaged, court documents state. The damage appeared consistent with the car having hit a fence, according to the same documents, though Vickers said it resulted from an accident. Officers found multiple sets of dealership customer keys and a drug pipe inside the car, the documents state. Vickers initially gave officers a different name before admitting her identity and saying she knew she had arrest warrants, according to court documents, and Greenfield police took her into custody.
Charges and a Prior Case
Vickers now faces three counts of burglary, two counts of theft involving property valued between $750 and $50,000, one count of auto theft, one count of theft, one count of battery involving bodily injury and one count of criminal vandalism, according to court documents. A separate Greenfield Reporter arrests listing for September 17 names Sabrea Faith Vickers, 26, of the 3600 block of North Riley Avenue in Indianapolis, and says she faced charges of auto theft, a false identity statement and possession of paraphernalia, with that charging information attributed to the Hancock County Jail.
Online court records cited by WTHR show Vickers had multiple arrest warrants dating back to July 2026 for charges including theft with a prior conviction and burglary in Marion and Hancock counties. Those same records indicate Vickers admitted to a prior auto-theft conviction tied to an alleged 2020 incident in which she allegedly took $500 and a man's car at gunpoint. An armed robbery charge from that case was dismissed under a plea deal, and Vickers was sentenced to time served after spending 287 days in jail, according to online court records.
