Second person arrested after allegedly throwing sex toy at WNBA game
A second suspect has been arrested for throwing a green sex toy at a WNBA game.
The incident happened Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the Phoenix Mercury’s game against the Connecticut Sun. The green sex toy allegedly hit a man in the stands who was watching the game with his 9-year-old niece.
Kaden Lopez, 18, was taken into custody at the arena, according to Fox 10 Phoenix, which reported that Lopez was booked into jail on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material.
Lopez said it was a ‘stupid prank that was trending on social media.’ He bought the sex toy the day before to take it to the game, according to court documents.
This is the fifth known incident of a sex toy being thrown at a WNBA game. Here’s the timeline:
- July 29: The first incident at the Golden State Valkyries-Atlanta Dream game, the toy landed on the court at the Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta.
- Aug. 1: It happened again at the Golden State Valkyries-Chicago Sky game, the toy landed on the court at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
- Aug. 5: Indiana Fever-Los Angeles Sparks game at Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles. With two minutes remaining in the second quarter of Tuesday’s game, a sex toy landed on the court in the lane near Fever forward Sophie Cunningham, who earlier in the week went on social media to plead with fans not to throw things on the floor and posted another reaction after the game. On the same night, sex toys were thrown in the stands at the Mercury and New York Liberty games.
(This story was updated to change a video.)
