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PHOENIX – 18-year-old Kaden Lopez was arrested while at a Phoenix Mercury<\/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 What we know:<\/p>\n The Aug. 5 incident was captured on video, police say, showing a “green dildo” hitting a man and his 9-year-old niece.<\/p>\n “Video footage shows Lopez, sitting in his seat, he retrieves the green dildo from his sweater front pocket then throws the [sex toy] forward. He then stands up and leaves the area,” a court document read.<\/p>\n 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 “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 Lopez reportedly was sorry and said that it was a “stupid prank that was trending on social media.” Documents state that he bought the sex toy the day before just to take it to the game.<\/p>\n Fans Perspective:<\/p>\n By Aug. 7, many fans had heard of what happened. One fan even witnessed the incident.<\/p>\n “Out of the corner of my eye, I see a bright green object kind of flight right from the tunnel that enters into our section,” said Ari Simones.<\/p>\n Simones was at the game with his eight-year-old daughter when he saw the commotion.<\/p>\n “I saw staff kind of rush to the object and grab it,” Simones recounted.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Anne Caldwell said she was hit by another sex toy at the same game. It is not clear who threw it.<\/p>\n “I was just sitting in my seat minding my own business, and something hit me on the head,” said Caldwell. “I looked down to the floor and saw a bright fluorescent \u2018marital aid,\u2019 is what they called it in the incident report.”<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The incident at PHX Arena appears to be part of a trend happening at games throughout the WNBA.<\/p>\n Those who didn’t know about the trend said they are appalled.<\/p>\n “This is a family event,” said one woman. “You can’t do stuff like that.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Lopez was booked into jail on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material.<\/p>\n The WNBA and PHX Arena<\/a> both want Lopez to be prosecuted for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a>Phoenix Mercury<\/a>Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – 18-year-old Kaden Lopez was arrested while at a Phoenix Mercury game after police say he threw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[3308,49,48,36146,36147,8456,44,8455,82,182,630],"class_list":["post-53675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-az","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-mercury","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-sports","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
ground next to them. He realized the object that hit him was a dildo. He desires prosecution,” the court document read.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kaden-lopez.jpg\")
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