WATCH: Team of Officers Catch Bear Falling From Tree

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A group of Sahuarita Police Department officers recently faced an unusual task. They needed to catch a large black bear as it fell from a tree in a residential neighborhood in southern Arizona. The resulting video gained a lot of attention online.

“SPD gets their man, no, . . . bear!” wrote Sahuarita PD in an Instagram post sharing the footage. “Yesterday evening, a bear was located in Rancho Sahuarita. Arizona Game and Fish safely tranquilized and relocated the bear.”

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