Police have released body camera footage of the FBI confronting the since-convicted stalker of Caitlin Clark, Michael Lewis. The video was taken outside of an Indianapolis hotel room on Jan. 8, almost a month after Lewis began harassing the Indiana Fever star.
The 55-year-old Lewis sent “numerous threats and sexually explicit messages” to Caitlin Clark, then traveling to Indianapolis, claiming that he had purchased tickets to an Indiana Fever game and intended to sit behind the bench. After his initial arrest, Lewis was charged with one count of stalking threatening sexual battery or death, a Level 5 felony.
Lewis, from Denton, Texas, was accused of a “course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of Caitlin Clark that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized.” Clark reportedly alerted police after learning that Lewis was in Indianapolis.
Confrontation with law enforcement
When confronted at an Indianapolis hotel, he told the FBI agents and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers that he merely had “an imaginary relationship” with the Fever star. He stated that he was in Indianapolis on vacation and attempted to downplay his online behavior towards Caitlin Clark…