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May 28, 2008

Update: Bear trap set, just waiting for a bear

DEM Photo

A young black bear that has apparently crossed a large portion of the Ocean State in recent days. The photo, taken yesterday, shows the approximately 130-pound, two-year-old bear.

NARRAGANSETT -- Local and state officials are still on the look-out for an unwelcome visitor in Narragansett.

Narragansett police and officials from the state Department of Environmental Management are in the parking lot of Twin Willows, off Boston Neck Road, waiting for an encounter with a black bear that was spotted yesterday in the Mettatuxet neighborhood..

On hand is a bear trap -- which looks like a giant drum on its side. Authorities are just waiting for the word that the bear has been spotted

“He moved last night to a couple of different spots,” Narragansett Chief Dean Hoxsie said this morning. “He’s still here, seen again in this neighborhood.”

Officials are hoping that the bear, which was able to elude officials last night while tearing through backyard bird feeders and trash, can be subdued with a tranquilizer gun and captured today.

John R. Gingerella, of the state's Environmental Police, said authorities had hoped to catch the bear yesterday, but "it wasn't cooperative. There were so many people around," he said, "it was kind of like a parade setting."

But the bear wasn't putting on a show; he was, and is, lost.

"He's a teenage boy," Gingerella said, "looking for his own place."

Your Turn: Have you ever spotted a bear in your neighborhood?

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Arline Fleming

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