JEFFERSON CITY • A Democrat running for Missouri attorney general says his process server personally served Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Friday with a subpoena during the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Cole County Circuit Court issued a subpoena last month at Elad Gross’ request. Though one was delivered to Hawley’s Senate office, a subpoena had not been delivered to Hawley personally.

Hawley’s attorneys listed the failure to serve Hawley personally as one reason a Cole County judge should quash the subpoena. Gross told the Post-Dispatch that Hawley was handed a subpoena by a process server after Hawley delivered a speech at CPAC in Washington on Friday.

“We got him,” Gross said on Twitter. “After more than two weeks of evading service, Senator Josh Hawley was personally served with the subpoena at CPAC.”

“This is another political stunt by a political candidate,” Hawley spokeswoman Kelli Ford said in an email. “The reality is that Mr. Gross has been evading a court date to discuss the matter.”