Hartford Courant biz editor foils robbery

David Owens of The Hartford Courant writes Tuesday about how the paper’s business editor, Dan Haar, stopped a robbery at his home on Monday night.

Owens writes, “The homeowner, Courant Business Editor Dan Haar, said he thought it was suspicious when he saw a bicycle that did not belong to him on his front stoop. ‘I [saw] two screen doors swung open, like people had been around,’ Haar said today.

“Haar then went to his back porch. ‘I start to open the door and I hear people in the house,’ he said.

“Haar went back to the front of his house and saw three people run out the side of his house — they smashed out a window screen to escape — and run south on Foxcroft. They left behind the bike on the front stoop.”

Read more here.aar first called a friend he was supposed to meet and said he’d be late because burglar just ran out of his house. He then called police.

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