The Portland Tribune has just got their hands on a hefty bit of “gotcha,” giving Bob Ball back what he was spreading about Sam Adams. Turns out, earlier this year, the Portland Police Bureau opened a file on Ball, based on an unsubstantiated rumor that he was having a relationship with a minor.

As with the Adams allegation, there apparently wasn’t any evidence to back up the rumor, so the investigation died, with Ball never even being contacted by the police.

“Frankly I am shocked,” Ball said when the Tribune asked him about it. “Ai-yi-yi … that is absolutely not true.”

The rumor appears to have been based on the fact that Ball’s partner, Grant, is a “very young-looking 23-year-old man.” (Aside from Britney Spears, what 23-year-old isn’t young looking?)

The claim was made by former Multnomah County Sheriff Scott Aardappel, who told the police that it was just something he heard and that he had no firsthand knowledge, yet he felt obligated to report it. Sound familiar? The difference in this case is that Aardappel actually took it to the proper authorities—the police, or he also could have called child services—instead of a pair of politicians.