New Jersey: Bear that broke into Vernon home target of search
source www.nj.com
Monday April 21, 2008, 5:04 PM
Monday April 21, 2008, 5:04 PM
State wildlife officials are trying to trap a large bear that broke into a house in Vernon and ran away when police shot at it, authorities said.
The incident occurred in the Lake Wanda section of Highland Lakes at 8:10 p.m. Sunday, when a resident who was home alone watching television in his bedroom heard "strange noises" coming from his kitchen, police said today. A large bruin had broken through the front door of the man's home on Chestnut Street and was "tearing at his kitchen garbage," police said.
A police officer arrived to find the bear eating a bag of garbage outside the home. Following state procedures for killing nuisance bears, the officer used a shotgun to shoot the bear, which then ran off into woods behind the home, police said.
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