Video shows FMU sex battery suspect try to grab detective during transport

A man facing charges in the sexual battery of a student at Florida Memorial University is now facing additional charges for attempting to do the same to a female officer, according to an arrest report.

Steven Rivers, 30, was taken into custody on Tuesday. The next day, police confirmed that DNA evidence tied him to the crime on campus, where he was accused of following and attacking a scholarship student.

As police were escorting him to a transport vehicle on Wednesday morning to be taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, a lead female detective walked past Rivers.

“Mr. Rivers aggressively reached over, forcefully attempting” to grab the detective’s buttocks, authorities said.

NBC6’s cameras were rolling when it all unfolded. Rivers is in a white jumpsuit and handcuffed as a female detective holds the door open for him and the officers escorting him.

Video shows his hand reaching out from behind his back to grab the woman.

Officers held him back and braced him against a railing, the report describes, before Rivers allegedly “spontaneously chuckled” and uttered, “Good catch. But I don’t give a f—.”

Rivers had just been released by the Florida Department of Corrections in December of 2025 after serving time for lewd and lascivious behavior related to a case in Palm Beach County, police said.

Rivers now faces charges of attempted sexual battery causing no serious personal injury, battery of a police officer, and resisting an officer without violence to his person.

Those charges are in addition to sexual battery and robbery by sudden snatching in the attack on FMU’s campus.

At a bond court hearing on Thursday, Judge Mindy Glazer said: “I think he’s a great danger to the community, to women in Miami-Dade County, and given his criminal history, I’m gonna grant the state’s request for an increased bond.”

Rivers’ bond was set at $505,000 in the sex battery on a student. In the second case, his bond was set at $5,501.

Police said they’re concerned there could be other victims and are urging anyone who may have had an encounter with Rivers in the past few weeks to contact them.