Bear Tranquilized, Moved From North Park

A 245-pound black bear spotted in on Monday night was captured in Hampton Township, according to a report from WPXI.

McCandless police were called to the park about 6 p.m. along with Pennsylvania Game Commission officers and started chasing the bear near South Ridge Road, WPXI reported.

Tim Webb tweeted a bear photo with this note: "this was at the presidential arms apartments in north park today. That's a big bear for north park.

At one point, the bear interuppted a cub scout meeting near the North Park pool.

“All of a sudden, an officer comes by on a bike, screaming, everybody get out of the way! Somebody saw a bear, it was walking on a pathway right down here,” Ed Especto, a scout leader, told KDKA TV.

The bear was spotted off Willow Oak Drive in Allison Park, KDKA reported. 

Katie Cyphers was on her back porch when the bear came out of  the woods and into her back yard. “I ran and got my ipod for a picture, a big black bear, it was huge,” she told KDKA TV. 

A conservation officer eventually shot the bear with a tranquilizer dart in a yard off of Pioneer Road. The bear was tagged Monday night in Wexford, and then driven to state gamelands in Indiana County where it was released Tuesday morning.

Click here to see Right Now I/O Feed's photo of the officers in Hampton Township.

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