Police used their vehicle sirens to drive a two-year-old bear up a tree after its presence in a northern Utah town caused traffic delays.
State Division of Wildlife Resources spokeswoman Faith Heaton Jolley said division personnel then were able to tranquilise the bear and catch it in a large net when it fell out of the tree.
Ms Jolley said the brown-coloured black bear was placed in a trap in the bed of a pick-up truck and driven to the Wasatch Mountains, where it was released.
Pictures show him jumping out of the truck and running away.
Ms Jolley says it is unusual for a bear to be roaming city streets that are several miles away from mountains east of the city where wildlife biologists think it came from.
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