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