diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/ScopeUtils.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/ScopeUtils.java
index c1111d862..0676e1c91 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/ScopeUtils.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/ScopeUtils.java
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ public class ScopeUtils
                     retVal = modScope;
                 }
             }
+            else if (type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_NEW) {
+                retVal = Scope.ANONINNER;
+                break; //because Scope.ANONINNER is not in any other Scope
+            }
         }
 
         return retVal;