Late last year after The New York Times published an account of a horrific rape against a teenage girl in a small town in Ohio, an online vigilante campaign was started against some local officials believed to be too close to the suspects, some of whom were high school football players. Two teenage boys ended up being charged, and when the case went to trial in March 2013, the two were convicted of rape.

Much of the online vigilantism was spearheaded by someone calling himself "KYAnonymous."

According to a new account published online on Wednesday, a 26-year-old Kentucky man named Deric Lostutter has outed himself as KYAnonymous and provided a written account of an FBI search on his property in Winchester, Kentucky in April 2013. The search marks the latest in a string of occasions where members of Anonymous have been unmasked, pled guilty, or been otherwise caught for their actions online.

Lostutter confirmed to Gawker that he was indeed the leader of KnightSec, an Anonymous splinter group. Lostutter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The news outlet also published the search warrant (PDF) used to investigate Lostutter.

KnightSec partnered with two other groups (LocalLeaks and Occupy Steubenville) to conduct “Operation Roll Red Roll,” an online protest and information-gathering campaign against a group of young men in Ohio accused of raping another teenager.

Lostutter wrote on the KnightSec website about being searched:

Upon returning from a brief turkey hunt behind my farm I had just sat down and opened up my computer to work when my pitbull, named Thor, jumps up on the door as is common for him to do when someone new is at my house. I had been expecting a T-Shirt in the mail from ShieldTactical.com and what appeared to be a Fed-Ex truck was parked in my driveway. As I open the door to great [sic] the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to "Get The Fuck Down" with m-16 assault rifles and full riot gear armed safety off, pointed directly at my head. I was handcuffed and detained outside while they cleared my house. My brother soon emerged later with his new girlfriend, both bewildered that the F.B.I. was at my house seeing as I have no prior criminal history, both of them in handcuffs as well. The Swat team left my belongings in the floor, my dogs shocked, my family nervous, my garage door battered open with a ram though I stated I had a key, and the RV camper window broken for entry though I stated to pull hard on the door.

Lostutter has yet to be charged with a crime, although he added:

I was emailed their intent to send out a "Target Letter" which means they are going to try to indict me for a Federal Offense, (most likely a felony and two misdemeanors) to a secret Grand Jury of 23 individuals, for which I can not be present to state my side, nor state my innocence.

LocalLeaks told Ars earlier this year that each of three “entities have their own objectives and tactics, as well as their realm of responsibility within the overarching Operation [Roll Red Roll],” adding that "Anonymous, as led by KnightSec, desire justice and use standard cyber-activist strategies to work toward that goal.”