- A young mountain lion was captured in a Redwood City, California, backyard after police warned residents to bring their pets indoors while officers and wildlife crews searched the neighborhood.
A young mountain lion was captured in a Redwood City, California, backyard Monday morning after police warned nearby residents to bring their pets indoors while officers and wildlife crews searched the neighborhood.
The sighting happened in the city’s Roosevelt neighborhood near Madison Avenue and Hudson Street, close to Red Morton Park. According to CBS Bay Area, Redwood City police sent an alert just before 11 a.m. while officers helped California Department of Fish and Wildlife crews search the area.
A Redwood City police drone unit located the mountain lion in the backyard of a home on Madison Avenue. State wildlife officers later used a tranquilizing dart and moved the animal out of the residential area…