Cruise Passenger Arrested in Brevard County After Investigators Find Bestiality Videos on Phone
By Wayne Ivey, Brevard Sheriff // December 31, 2025
Man arrested on 15 counts of Possession of Material Depicting Sexual Activities Involving Animals
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – We hope that Anthony Ridings enjoyed his time on the Mardi Gras Cruise Ship since his little fun boat ride came to a screeching halt as he was disembarking.
Ridings was stopped by our friends at Customs and Border Patrol regarding possible possession of child pornography on his cellphone, however when Agents looked at the videos, they didn’t find videos of child porn, but instead downloaded videos of adults engaging in sexual activities with dogs.
Agent Josh Strait of our Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit, responded to the port to assume the investigation and during a subsequent interview, Ridings stated that he didn’t know it was illegal to download videos of that nature and just had them for “shock” value to show his buddies.
Ridings was not taken into custody at the onset of the investigation as Agent Straight was having the cellphone examined by our Digital Forensics Unit for additional evidence of the criminal activity.
Agent Strait subsequently wrote an arrest warrant, signed by the Honorable Judge Laura Moody, for 15 counts of Possession of Material Depicting Sexual Activities Involving Animals and Ridings was taken into custody earlier today by our great partners at the US Marshals Task Force in Daytona Beach.
Of course, Ridings is now awaiting the guest courtesy shuttle to Ivey’s Iron Bar Lodge where he is guaranteed to have plenty of “shock value” to share with his new found buddies or “cellmates,” as we call them.
Ridings has a $300,000 bond so I hope he ate a lot while on the cruise ship as I promise you he is not gonna like the dining experience during his staycation at the lodge.
C’mon man, who in their right mind would want to look at or show his buddies that kind of disgusting, sick, vile, demented videos? Not one single soul would want to see that and I wish we could find the people committing the acts so they could go to jail too.
While I hope everyone has a safe and fun night on this New Year’s Eve you need to remember this…if you go out to ring in the New Year tonight and then drink and drive, you could be Ridings’ new cellmate.
– Sheriff Wayne Ivey
