A bear wandered through a neighborhood north of Los Angeles for more than an hour Wednesday morning with squad cars and a helicopter on its tail as it scaled fences and surprised several horses in their corrals.
The bear was first seen in the Shadow Hills area, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
The black bear surprised two horses as it emerged from a backyard, then walked through another corral with three horses a few blocks away. The bear scaled a fence around the second corral and walked along the top of it until leaping back to the ground and trotting under a tree.
Police in squad cars and an airship followed the bear, which was first spotted along Clybourn Avenue at about 6:30 a.m. Officers and at least one California Department of Fish and Wildlife agent -- armed with a tranquilizer gun -- cornered the bear under trees along Wentworth Street.
Aerial video showed agents loading the tranquilized bear into the bed of a pickup. The bear will likely be transported to a wildlife area.
The bear appeared to have a tracking tag attached to its right ear, indicating that wildlife officials might have been in contact before with the bear.
