Gov. JB Pritzker’s office said Thursday he was “extremely troubled” to learn that a community violence intervention worker he posed with in a photo earlier this month at an event on Chicago’s South Side was arrested days later in an organized smash-and-grab burglary that led to the death of an innocent father-to-be.

But a Pritzker spokesperson insisted his office had nothing to hide when it removed the photo from a news release on the governor’s state website, saying the office scrubbed the picture after the worker was arrested in the burglary that left motorist Mark Arceta of Skokie dead when his sport-utility vehicle was hit by one of the getaway cars.

Pritzker’s defense followed the disclosure Thursday by the crime reporting website CWB Chicago that 35-year-old Kellen McMiller sto

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