Officials Finally Bag That Bothersome N.J. Bear
PARAMUS, N.J. (CBS 2) -- A two-year-old black bear spotted in several Bergen County towns has been captured by state wildlife officers.
The 146-pound male seen in Ho-Ho-Kus and Ridgewood was finally grabbed in Paramus Saturday, ending an 18-hour pursuit of the animal.
The bear climbed a tree and stayed there for two hours before state officials tranquilized it.
On Friday night, a resident grabbed her video camera and caught an image of a bear chilling out in a tree. "We were just sitting eating dinner and a cop with a gun was in our backyard and I saw a black bear just jet across our backyard. It was the most bizarre thing you'd ever seen," Kimberly Canella said.
Joan Monton took the video. "It was cute because they were waiting and the police were letting us look at him and they were clapping and they said they were trying to keep him up in a tree until the state comes," Monton said. "But then at 8 o'clock, they said the state is not gonna come because by the time they get here it will be too dark to tranquilize him, which was shocking to me …"
The animal was taken to Parkland in Sussex County and released.
