73-year-old James Rivers might have really wanted to catch the local high school football game. That really could be the reason he was caught there, but it wouldn't really help explain the knife that LE says he had in his possession at the game. And, it really really doesn't explain the used and unused condoms that he had stuffed in his pockets when police arrested him for carrying the knife.Of course, this story may not be as interesting if we leave out the part where Rivers is a convicted sexual offender- having served time for first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping back from a conviction in 1978, and another conviction in 2000 for failing to abide by the the state sex offender registry law.
One has to wonder what a sex offender with a history of kidnapping and sexual assault is doing at a high school game, carrying used condoms and a knife. Add to it what deputies later found in his car, and I'm raising an eye brow...
Deputies also searched Rivers' car and found a large amount of candy, several hand-rolled cigarettes, a Nerf football and a Polaroid camera.
A knife, condoms, candy, a football and a camera.... and a sex offender. Great.