Jonesboro, AR – Jonesboro Right Now – Anthony Keaton Graves, who was arrested in May 2026 following an FBI investigation into shared child sexual abuse material (CSAM), has been sentenced to 60 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
Court documents say Graves was arrested on a $200,000 cash-only bond after a subject in Memphis informed the FBI that Graves had transferred CSAM to him from a laptop kept in a closet safe at his Orval Cove home in Jonesboro.
According to a plea statement and sentence recommendation filed on Nov. 5, Graves pled guilty to 20 felony counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child.
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The court’s sentencing order details that Graves received 120 months (10 years) for each of the first six CSAM counts, which Circuit Judge Randy Philhours ordered to run consecutively for a total of 720 months, or 60 years in prison. Court records indicate the remaining 14 CSAM counts resulted in 120-month suspended sentences to be served concurrently.
As part of the negotiated plea, two additional drug charges for possession of meth, cocaine, or heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia were nolle prossed. Graves received credit for 183 days already served in the county jail.
An order of probation and suspending imposition of sentence outlines several special conditions Graves must follow. According to the documents, he is required to pay $1,290 in total fines and costs, which includes a $500 cybercrime assessment fee and a $250 sex offender registration fee.
Furthermore, the court documents mandate that Graves must enroll in and complete a course to obtain a GED, submit a DNA sample, comply with all sex offender registration statutes, and is prohibited from residing with any minor child unless approved by a circuit judge.
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