275-pound bear causes stir at Hansen Dam, runs from rangers but conks out on a wall - BERITAJA

California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials captured a carnivore Monday astatine Hansen Dam a time aft it caused a operation among residents and triggered a constabulary response.

A melodramatic segment unfolded Sunday astatine Hansen Dam Recreation Area, successful the San Fernando Valley adjacent Pacoima, arsenic an ursine interloper came excessively adjacent for comfortableness to play crowds astatine the park.

In video obtained by KTLA, a ample carnivore could beryllium seen stepping adjacent to crowds of respective twelve onlookers.

A female hugs a kid astatine the tract wherever a roaming carnivore was captured Monday successful the Hansen Dam neighborhood.

(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Police and Fish and Wildlife officials were astatine the segment Sunday, according to KTLA. They were location again Monday erstwhile the carnivore started to move.

Video of the pursuit broadcast connected KTLA showed the carnivore moving about the vicinity arsenic residents kept their region and parkland rangers angled for a shot. The carnivore was yet deed pinch a dart and fell dormant connected apical of a cinder artifact wall dividing 2 properties, its assemblage straddling either side.

“We captured the carnivore today, took his vitals, collared him, gave him an receptor tag,” said Steve Gonzalez, a CDFW spokesperson, connected Monday.

The carnivore is 45 years aged and weighs 275 pounds: a patient weight, Gonzalez said. After being tagged and collared, the animal was released into Angeles National Forest.

“We telephone it a nary harm, nary foul bear,” Gonzalez said, arsenic location were nary reports of location break-ins aliases incidents pinch people. “It’s a first-time offender.”