Colorado Division of Wildlife officers euthanized a 275-pound male black bear Tuesday morning after trapping the animal outside a Jamestown home.
Homeowner Bill Smith said his wife first called the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office around 8 p.m. Monday after the bear broke out a rear window and tore off a side mirror on the couple’s Ford Excursion.
The bear had left the scene at 1 Cemetery Road by the time officers arrived Monday night, but wildlife officials set a trap at 1 a.m., and Smith said he awoke to find the bear in the trap around 5 a.m.
Smith said the bear had been hanging around the property for three days.
“You more or less try to live with them, but when they get destructive like this, you have to do something with them,” he said.
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