EC woman admits role in robbery

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Updated: March 4, 2012 8:15AM

A former East Chicago woman faces a minimum six-year prison sentence for robbery in a 2009 that left one man shot in the back.

Princess Vanikka Lenette Wren, 28, of Michigan City, admitted she and co-defendant Sheena Webb, who remains at large, along with an unknown man, came to the victim’s apartment on Hohman Avenue in Hammond on June 4, 2009. The victim had been friends with Webb.

While the man was talking with Webb, Wren showed up with the man. Both were armed. The unidentified man demanded the victim’s money and drugs. Wren yelled at the man and struck him in the head with her gun after loading a black bag with his cell phone, keys, money and other items. The plea agreement documents don’t identify the shooter, merely that the victim was shot in the back before the defendants and the unknown man left the apartment.

Lake Superior Court Judge Salvador Vasquez took the plea agreement under advisement and scheduled a March 15 sentencing hearing where defense attorney Scott King and deputy prosecutor Catherine Breitweiser-Hurst will argue an appropriate sentence. Wren faces a maximum 20-year term.

Webb, 23, whose last known address is in the 4800 block of Northcote Avenue, East Chicago, is charged with two counts of robbery, aggravated battery, confinement and battery. She also has a pending forgery and theft case from July 2009 for which she has never been arrested.