{"id":125343,"date":"2025-08-07T03:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125343\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:54:17","slug":"man-arrested-for-throwing-sex-toy-at-phoenix-mercury-crowd-court-docs-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125343\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for throwing sex toy at Phoenix Mercury crowd, court docs say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kaden-lopez.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; 18-year-old Kaden Lopez was arrested while at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/wnba\/mercury\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phoenix Mercury<\/strong><\/a> game after police say he threw a sex toy toward the seats in front of him, hitting a man and his niece.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The Aug. 5 incident was captured on video, police say, showing a &#8220;green dildo&#8221; hitting a man and his 9-year-old niece.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;Video footage shows Lopez, sitting in his seat, he retrieves the green dildo from his sweater front pocket then throws the dildo forward. He then stands up<br \/>and leaves the area,&#8221; a court document read.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">A witness who volunteers in the arena said they followed Lopez, tackled him as he tried to leave and waited for police to arrive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;The adult male victim was interviewed. He stated he was watching the WNBA game with his 9-year-old niece, when something hit his back then fell to the<br \/>ground next to them. He realized the object that hit him was a dildo. He desires prosecution,&#8221; the court document read.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Lopez reportedly was sorry and said that it was a &#8220;stupid prank that was trending on social media.&#8221; Documents state that he bought the sex toy the day before just to take it to the game.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Lopez was booked into jail on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The WNBA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phx-arena.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PHX Arena<\/strong><\/a> both want Lopez to be prosecuted for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/wnba\/mercury\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHOENIX &#8211; 18-year-old Kaden Lopez was arrested while at a Phoenix Mercury game after police say he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,160,50,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-125343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-mercury","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114985465696554780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}