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Phoenix police said they had arrested Daniel Mota Dos Reis, 36,
in connection to a burglary. While they did not reference the
Hobbs incident directly, a source with knowledge of the probe
confirmed the arrest related to the campaign break-in.
"We are very thankful that the Phoenix Police Department acted
so quickly to arrest a suspect," Hobbs' campaign manager, Nicole
DeMont, said in a statement.
In recent days, Hobbs' campaign and Republican opponent Kari
Lake have traded barbs over the incident.
The Hobbs camp has criticized Lake, who has embraced Donald
Trump's false claims of widespread U.S. election fraud, for
failing to condemn threats to election workers and voters.
Hobbs' campaign said Lake's harsh rhetoric and embrace of
Trump's election falsehoods created the conditions for the
burglary to take place.
Lake has called any attempt to blame her campaign "absolutely
absurd."
In a statement, police said that an officer had recognized Dos
Reis on a news story that displayed an image from security
footage of the alleged burglary.
Dos Reis had already been arrested on Wednesday for a separate
alleged commercial burglary, police said. They added that police
had recovered the items allegedly stolen by Dos Reis.
Last week, the Arizona secretary of state referred an instance
of alleged voter intimidation to the state attorney general and
the U.S. Justice Department in what appeared to be the first
nationwide criminal referral of its kind this election cycle.
Lake has repeatedly cast doubt on whether she would accept a
possible defeat in Arizona.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery in WashingtonEditing by Scott
Malone, Cynthia Osterman and Matthew Lewis)
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