No substances present in 'suspicious mail' despatched to Kari Lake HQ: Police

Arizona authorities didn't uncover any substances within the "suspicious mail" despatched to gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's headquarters final week, regulation enforcement mentioned Friday.

Regulation enforcement in Phoenix mentioned that an investigation indicated there "was no substance" within the envelope, which was obtained by police after a staffer on Lake's staff talked about touching white powder in two envelopes. The staffer was positioned underneath medical supervision as a precaution however didn't report any signs.

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"The state lab examined the gadgets turned over to them relating to incident #2022-1665892 and has decided there was no substance inside," police advised Fox News.

FBI and Phoenix police, hazmat and bomb squad models, and different first responders arrived at Lake's headquarters final Saturday to research in a response that lasted from 10 p.m. to five a.m. The gubernatorial candidate was at a Saturday evening occasion and didn't come into contact with the envelope. The incident induced the headquarters to shut two days earlier than the midterm elections, the place Lake is dealing with Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in a battle to be the state's subsequent governor.

In a press release after the incident, the Lake marketing campaign didn't forged blame on her opponent, a distinction to when Hobbs and the Democrats blasted the Lake marketing campaign after somebody burglarized the Democrat's headquarters final month, solely to seek out out quickly afterward that the allegedly homeless thief was unrelated to Lake's marketing campaign.

On the time of the break-in, Hobbs's marketing campaign supervisor mentioned the housebreaking was a "direct results of a concerted marketing campaign of lies by [Lake] and her allies."

Lake and Hobbs have been neck-and-neck since election evening. Hobbs is now within the lead with 50.7% of the vote to date, in response to the Related Press. Lake has 49.3%.