A 55-year-old man from Texas has been arrested on a felony stalking charge after he allegedly repeatedly sent threats and sexually violent messages to Fever sensation Caitlin Clark on social media, according to court documents.
Michael Lewis was charged with a Level 5 felony after he was arrested at a hotel in Indianapolis on Sunday, police records show.
He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning and could face up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Some of the cotent of the messages he sen to Clark is below.
“Been driving around your house 3x a day,” Lewis messaged to Clark, according to court documents. “But don’t call the law just yet, the publc is allowed to drive by gainbridge..aka Caitlin’s Fieldhouse.”
Another message read, “I’m getting tickets. I’m sitting behind the bench.”
And another said, “They said I was sending threatening texts..but the only though on my mind was….CAITLIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNN.”
The court documents say other messages that were sent were sexually violent.
Clark told police, even before Lewis arrived in Indianapolis, she feared for her safety.
She altered her appearance in public and told police she never engaged with any of Lewis’ messages or posts.
The posts “actually caused Caitlin Clark to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened” and an implicit or explicit threat also was made “with the intent to place Caitlin Clark in reasonable fear of sexual battery,” prosecutors wrote.
Indianapolis police did a welfare check on Lewis before the arrest, where he told officers that he was in “an imaginary relationship” with Clark and that he came to Indianapolis on vacation.
Police told him “not post things like he has been posting … because his posts can be perceived as threatening,” the court document says.
Lewis told them, “It’s an imagination, fantasy type thing and it’s a joke, and it’s nothing to do with threatening.”
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