A bear was tranquilized and removed from a tree
Wednesday afternoon after getting stuck in it for several hours.
Police were on the scene
monitoring the bear and keeping people away from it until the New Jersey State
Department of Environmental Protection arrived.
They waited for the bear to
descend from the tree, and when it did, tranquilized him.
According
to reports, the bear, about
17 months old, was tagged. The plan is to release him into the woods in Passaic
County.