By Justin Engel
mlive.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — With the assistance of some highschool pole-vault mats, a curious bear was safely faraway from a Mount Pleasant residence’s front-yard tree.
Officials with the Mount Pleasant police and state Department of Natural Resources collaborated to shoot the animal and incapacitate it with a tranquilizer dart within the early afternoon hours of Tuesday, June 2, stated David Coffman, the police division’s public info officer.
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The collaborating companies acquired an help from officers from close by Mount Pleasant High School, which provided a number of comfortable athletics mats that officers positioned beneath the bear, softening its fall from the tree.
A 67-second video, offered by Jennifer Page and Bryan Chapman, confirmed officers barricade the realm across the tree as they labored to deliver the animal safely to the bottom.
Coffman stated DNR officers plan to relocate the bear at an undisclosed location within the northern area of the state.
Officials first despatched out neighborhood alerts concerning the bear shortly after 11 a.m., when the animal was reported in a neighborhood close to the intersection of Fancher and Mosher, about 3 miles southwest of the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.
“We had one of our officers go take a look and, sure enough, there was a bear,” Coffman stated. “The DNR got there and did their thing, and we just tried not to spook the bear. It all went great.”
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