[kenth]

In a news conference earlier in the day, Knezovich said he would look into complaints by a 67-year-old man whose house was wrongly raided on Sept. 27 after Detective Timothy D. Hines was one digit off when he sought the location of a telephone number to which the obscene calls had been traced.

Were that the truth, it would be more understandable. But, in this digital era, how likely would phone records show up one digit off? It sounds as if the detective himself went by his faulty memory when cross referencing the number for an address.

[monday]

" It sounds as if the detective himself went by his faulty memory when cross referencing the number for an address."

The article says that it was the detective who was one digit off. It was all his fault.