A 2-year-old black bear, which had been roaming around South Atlanta was caught Monday morning by a trapper from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
“He was able to dart the bear, and we are currently taking it to Gainesville to get it tattooed and then we’ll relocate him in north Georgia,” Georgia DNR biologist Lee Taylor told WABE as he was riding in the truck with the sleeping bear.
The 160-pound animal was first spotted early Friday morning in front of the Fulton County Jail, where surveillance cameras caught him sniffing around trashcans.
On Monday morning the bear was seen in a MARTA maintenance yard in College Park. He was under a bridge when shot with a tranquilizer, Taylor said.
Black bears are solitary animals and usually don’t bother humans.