A 55-year-old Texas man was arrested on a felony stalking charge in Indianapolis
A Texas man accused of stalking Caitlin Clark was arrested in Indianapolis this weekend after police said he sent numerous threats and sexually explicit messages to the Indiana Fever player, Caitlin Clark, according to prosecutors.
On Sunday after he allegedly sent threats and sexually violent messages to Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark via social media, according to court documents.
Who is Michael Lewis
Police records show that Michael Lewis, of Denton, Texas, was charged with a Level 5 felony after he was arrested at a hotel in Indianapolis. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.
Michael Lewis, 55, of Denton, a suburb of Dallas, was charged with stalking, a low-level felony, after an investigation revealed he sent over a dozen messages on X (formerly Twitter) to Clark, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.
An arrest affidavit detailing the case shows over 15 messages from Lewis’ X account sent to Clark beginning December 16 through mid-January. Many of the messages were sexually explicit and sometimes violent.
“Got banned from caitbridge (sic). Im sorry. Bu maybe I go to ur road games..its ok right?” One of the posts read, according to the affidavit.
Federal investigators tracked the messages from IP addresses belonging to a hotel in the 100 block of West Market Street, roughly a mile from where the Fever play, and another from the Indianapolis downtown library.
Detectives said in the affidavit:
“Lewis’s presence in Indianapolis was especially concerning given that he is a Texas resident.”
Police interviewed Clark on Saturday
The Indiana Fever superstar revealed that she “has been very fearful since learning of the messages and that she has altered her public appearances and patterns of movement due to fear for her safety,” according to the affidavit supporting Lewis’ arrest.
The complaint said:
“Clark stated that she has become very concerned for her safety after learning that Lewis was in Indianapolis,””Clark also stated that she doesn’t know Lewis and has never responded to any of his messages or posts.”
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said his office takes online threats like what, Michael Lewis did, seriously because they easily can turn into real-life acts.