The Brief
- Phoenix police arrested 31-year-old Blake Hauff for allegedly stealing an employee’s SUV keys from a Safeway break room and torching the vehicle hours later.
- Detectives identified Hauff after surveillance footage showed him entering his personal Safeway rewards phone number at checkout right after allegedly swiping the keys.
- Hauff was booked into jail on a felony arson charge after police debunked his claim that “masked gunmen” actually stole and burned the SUV.
PHOENIX – A Phoenix man’s alleged crime spree came to an abrupt end after he used his own Safeway loyalty rewards number during a theft before allegedly torching a stolen vehicle in a north Phoenix neighborhood, according to court documents.
What we know:
Blake Alexander Hauff, 31, was arrested on July 22 in Tucson and booked into a Maricopa County jail on felony arson charges. Detectives say Hauff left behind a trail of physical evidence, distinctive security camera footage and a self-incriminating store transaction after stealing an SUV and setting it ablaze.…