A man accused of sexual battery against a Florida college student is seen in video attempting to grab a detective who was holding a door open for him during transport.
Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitations records viewed by Complex on Friday (Jan. 30) show that Steven Rivers, 30, is currently facing charges in connection with two cases. In the first, bond for which is listed at $505,000, Rivers is charged with sexual battery and robbery by sudden snatching. In the second, he’s charged with the following: attempted sexual battery causing no serious personal injury, battery of a police officer, and two counts of resisting an officer without violence.
The first batch of charges, per a report from the Miami Herald, are in connection with Rivers’ alleged sexual battery of a Florida Memorial University student earlier this month.
The latter charges carry a listed bond of $5,501 and stem from Rivers’ attempted grabbing of a detective’s buttocks, an incident that regional outlet WTVJ reports occurred while he was being escorted by police during a transport to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on Wednesday (Jan. 28).
Footage shows Rivers, who was cuffed at the time, being led through a door. A woman reported to be a lead detective holds the door open for Rivers and the officers, at which point the suspect is seen reaching out a hand and attempting to grab her on the buttocks. He is then braced by other officers.
Complex has reached out for comment to the Miami Gardens Police Department, the agency said to have been escorting Rivers at the time of the incident. This story may be updated.
“I think he’s a great danger to the community, to women in Miami-Dade County,” Judge Mindy S. Glazer said at a hearing on Thursday (Jan. 29).
