HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Records have been expunged for an active U.S. Navy lieutenant after Homestead police accused him of threatening his wife with a knife after she refused to perform certain sex acts last year.
Court records show Steven Allen Rice, 34, was facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon, child abuse with no great bodily harm and false imprisonment.
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Records pertaining to those charges were expunged on Nov. 8, 2023, Local 10 News learned Friday. The full document can be viewed below.
Police said they spoke to Rice’s wife, who told them that she and her husband had a verbal argument on February 8, 2023, due to her no longer wanting to perform certain sexual acts that Rice wanted her to do.
According to the arrest report, after Rice’s wife denied his request, he then went to the kitchen to grab a knife and threatened to kill her.
Police said the victim was holding two small children in her hands when Rice held the knife over his head and told her she was going to “get it” and that he was going to kill her and then himself.
The arrest report states that shortly after Rice’s daughter came downstairs, he hid the knife and chased her upstairs.
Police spoke to the daughter who said that Rice pinned her against the wall after chasing her upstairs and began to degrade her, according to the report.
Authorities said that the daughter also told them that when Rice gets angry, he has hit her siblings over the head with a closed fist on multiple occasions.
She also confessed that she had seen Rice hit her brother so hard across the face that it left a mark, according to the report.
Read the expungement here: