WA: "an 11-year old girl running the investigation"

From KING - 5, here's a news item spreading a reminder throughout the Seattle viewing area of how damaging it is when cops target the wrong man:

Man tries to salvage reputation after wrong arrest

An Issaquah man is trying to salvage his reputation after being arrested earlier this year and accused of luring young girls. But prosecutors now say someone else was responsible for the incidents for which Robert Powell was arrested.

"I'm bitter. I'm mad. I'm angry. I've relieved ... I'm relieved," said Powell. But Powell blames Issaquah and Bellevue Police for shoddy detective work. "You know, you had an 11-year old girl running the investigation and some not-so-trustworthy cops," he said...

And the lagniappe - the real suspect turns out to be a lawyer:

That suspect, Jeb Burgess... allegedly exposed himself to... younger girls who would talk with him but that since he just became an attorney less than a year ago, he made sure the conversations did not turn sexual in nature...

And he really is one, though maybe not for very much longer.