(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In April 2025, the Justice Department announced the indictment of a 25-year-old man who had elicited sexually explicit videos from a 16-year-old girl.
However, lawyers for the defendant, Aniruth Kuppusamy, said last month that the FBI violated their client’s Fourth Amendment rights. Now, those lawyers want evidence in the case suppressed.
According to the defense’s August 14 motion to suppress evidence, the FBI searched Kuppusamy’s parents’ home—even though he didn’t live there. The FBI also searched the home before a judge approved a warrant, the motion says.
“Had the Magistrate been made aware that defendant’s parents—law abiding citizens—owned and resided at the Subject Premises—there is no way she would have approved a warrant that allowed the government to search every inch of the house and search and seize every electronic device and (cloud storage) found therein—with zero regard to who had dominion and control over the premises and the devices,” the motion says.
“The magistrate would also not have found that the Subject Premises was defendant’s residence.”
Additionally, Kuppusamy’s lawyers argued that the FBI’s search was overly broad. The lawyers explained that the FBI initially received a tip from Meta that Kuppusamy and his alleged victim were discussing terroristic acts—something that would allow the FBI to make an “emergency disclosure request” to obtain social media records. But instead of limiting its search to that possible emergency, the FBI demanded—and received—all of Kuppusamy’s social media data from Meta.
Disturbing Update: 25-year-old Anniruth Kuppusamy, aka "Doomer Brown", has been jailed for over a year for allegedly grooming a young girl and helping her plan a school shooting.
But the FBI's mishandling of the investigation may allow him to walk free.
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“The Philadelphia FBI’s [emergency disclosure request] did not in any way limit the information sought to that ‘relating’ to the perceived/alleged emergency … Rather, the FBI received from Meta and reviewed all of the information sought—without a warrant of any kind. The information received and reviewed by the FBI included all of the defendants’ private communications – not just those involving the female in question—for a six month period,” the defense lawyers said.
“This unfettered and warrantless seizure, search and review by the FBI of all of defendant’s private communications violated the SCA and the Fourth Amendment.”
As a result, the defense lawyers want to suppress the social media information that the FBI allegedly illegally obtained, as well as statements made by Kuppusamy once he was in law enforcement custody.
The DOJ has until September 25 to respond to the motion to suppress, and a hearing is scheduled for the matter on October 1.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
