Woman Tweets Photo Of Alleged Groper

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a convicted sex offender is a person of interest in a groping incident involving a Seattle woman who turned to social media when she decided a police officer didn't seem to care enough.

Police said late Wednesday on their website that the man is currently in jail for a violation of his state Corrections Department supervision. The Seattle Times reported that Julia Marquand photographed the alleged groper with her cellphone after the incident last Sunday and filed a police report.

She says a female officer took down details but had to be persuaded to look at the cell phone photo. So Marquand posted the man's photo on her Twitter and Facebook accounts, saying, "This dude groped me in Seattle yesterday. Cops didn't want the pic."

Within a few hours, Seattle police contacted Marquand and said her case had been assigned to a detective.

Police spokesman Drew Fowler said earlier that it wasn't the tweet itself that caused police to re-evaluate Marquand's case, but it alerted the department to a "deficiency" in the way her case was handled.

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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com