250-pound bear captured in La Verne

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A bear wanders into the Hillcrest retirement community in La Verne.

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Game Warden Kory Collins gives a second tranquilizer shot to a bear that was hit by a tranquilizer dart earlier while running around a La Verne neighborhood.

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A bear drops to the ground after being tranquilized on the driveway of a home on Magnolia Avenue near 5th Street in La Verne.

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Residents of a home on the 1700 block of 6th Street take pictures of a bear that was found sleeping in a tree in La Verne.

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The bear was tranquilized before being transported to a safe location.

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California Department Fish and Wildlife game wardens and La Verne police officers move a tranquilized bear to a truck for transportation.

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The tranquilized bear is loaded into a truck for transportation to a safe location.

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By Los Angeles Times staff

May 31, 2018 8:55 PM PT

A bear wandered into a neighborhood in San Dimas overnight and into neighboring La Verne, where it was tranquilized Thursday by authorities. After a long chase, game wardens were successful in hitting the bear with a tranquilizer dart.

Residents on 6th Street trained their cameras on the bear, which was found sleeping in a tree around 6:30 a.m., from behind screen doors and windows. At one point the bear wandered into the Hillcrest retirement community in La Verne.

At approximately 10:15 a.m. the bear was tranquilized and removed to a safe location.

UPDATES:

8:55 p.m.: Updated to remove references to the animal as a “brown” bear.

This article was first published at 7:25 p.m.