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We’re not the types to think of divine powers carefully orchestrating earthly events. But a recent local arrest only makes us think that someone is sending us a hint that Mitt Romney will be elected to the presidency come November. ABC News is reporting that a D.C. man was arrested for stealing a first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon from an Arizona bookstore:

Police in Mesa, Ariz. said the FBI and U.S. Marshal’s Service found the book in the Washington D.C. apartment of Jay Linford. The 182-year-old book was reported missing on May 28 by Helen Schlie, the owner of Rare and Out of Print Books and Art. The book was valued at $100,000.

Police say Schile knows who Linford is, and he was allegedly in the store at time of the theft. The 88-year-old shop owner kept the book in an unlocked file cabinet in the bookstore. Schlie does not have security cameras in her store, but has a night watchman.

She told ABC News shortly after the book was stolen that she pinpointed a 20-minute window of time when her guard took a bathroom break that the theft must have occurred.

Linford is being held on $40,000 bond and will be extradited to Arizona.

In other signs that Romney may win, CNN recently reported that the D.C. area is becoming something of a Mormon stronghold.