Before Friday morning’s show, 93.7 The Fan host Colin Dunlap caught and confronted a would-be burglar in the parking lot before the show began.
After admitting he goes the wrong way through an exit only lane to get to the parking garage because its faster and its early in the morning, Dunlap noticed someone near producer Adam Crowley’s car.
“It’s probably 100 feet before I turn to where his car is parked and the car is parked as I turn, my lights flash on the broad side — the passenger side — of it and he parked going crossways. I noticed — what I first think is Crowley — on the passenger side. It’s not,” said Dunlap. “It’s some man. Looking into Crowley’s passenger side window. I normally park two spots away from Crowley and I back in. As I pull down, it still doesn’t hit the guy that a car is coming towards him. I make it about halfway down and the guy pops up and looks over his shoulder and notices this car coming. Immediately, he walks off real fast and goes up these steps to another parking lot above ours.”
Dunlap then made a lap around the parking lot before returning to his normal parking spot, while waiting inside to see if the person also returned.
“Two minutes later, here comes the guy circling back the other way, looks into (93.7 The Fan producer) Greg Finley’s car, which is parked in a different part of the lot. Pulls the handle. It doesn’t open. Then he walks back towards Crowley’s car towards the drivers side. He doesn’t see me in my car. At this point, I got out of my car and I said ‘Listen, it’s gonna happen one way or the other. Either I’m gonna grab you and knock you the hell out or you’re gonna get the eff out of here’. Cause I knew what was happening here. And I start walking towards him. And I’m five, maybe 10 feet from the guy, and boom. Sprint. Dude takes off.”
Dunlap then said he called 911 and reported the incident, noting two-minutes later three police officers were on the scene.
“I was still on the phone with 911 longer than it took them to get there,” Dunlap said. He added the man was a “junkie looking guy” who he didn’t fear was armed or dangerous.
