Woman gets 12 years in prison for downtown, Broad Ripple crime spree

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 35-year-old Indianapolis woman will spend 12 years in a state prison after crime spree in downtown Indianapolis and the north-side Broad Ripple business district over 48 hours in 2024, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release issued Thursday.

The crime spree included the aggravated battery of a shopper at a Broad Ripple grocery, the robbery of a woman near IU Health Methodist hospital, and the spray-painting of cars in a state government garage, court documents show.

Marion Superior Court 30 Judge Cynthia L. Oetjen sentenced Denise Honorio on Thursday. She pleaded guilty in Marion Superior Court 30 to a mid-level felony charge of aggravated battery, a mid-level felony charge of robbery resulting in bodily injury, and a low-level felony charge criminal mischief with damage of at least $50,000. As part of the deal, two misdemeanor charges of theft were dismissed.

Indiana State Police said Honorio vandalized around 50 cars to the tune of more than $50,000 in the state government-operated Washington Street Parking Garage, located northeast of Victory Field. The cars were spray-painted, and state police on Feb. 2, 2024, had sent out an alert with images of a person in hopes of getting help from the public to find a suspect.

Later that same day, state police say, Honorio robbed a woman near IU Health Methodist Hospital at 4:10 p.m. Feb. 2, 2024.

Online court documents that News 8 obtained Wednesday from the Marion County Clerk’s Office showed an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detective believes Honorio on Feb. 4, 2024, assaulted a shopper in the parking garage of Fresh Thyme grocery, 6301 N. College Ave. in the Broad Ripple area.

The woman shopper, identified in court documents as “DB,” told police that she’d just left the grocery and was going to her car. That’s when another woman struck “DB” in the head, causing her to fall to the ground.

A witness to the attack followed Honorio and watched her get in what may have been a brown Nissan vehicle in the area of Broad Ripple Avenue and College Avenue, court documents say.

Video obtained by IMPD captured Honorio in the area walking in sweatpants clearly displaying the words “OFF THE WALL.” A search warrant served on Honorio’s apartment found those sweatpants, as well as the sunglasses she wore in the video.

Honorio told IMPD that she used IndyGo to get around the city, and security video from buses also captured her in the Broad Ripple area.

Honorio remained in the the Marion County jail on Thursday afternoon, according to online records.

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