"And yet somehow this medium-sized bear managed to open a door, crawl inside and close the door behind him," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
The deputies decided to pop the hatch of the vehicle to free the bear, but they soon discovered the key fob didn't work and the doors were stuck shut due to being ripped apart from the inside by the trapped bear.
"Deputy McLaughlin had to manually open it while Deputy Tillman stood nearby with his shotgun just in case," the Facebook post said. "Thankfully once the door was open the bear had no interest in deputies, only in getting back into the wild."
The post included a video of the bear's rescue.
"Good work, deputies, and we hope this young bear stays far away from cars in the future!" the sheriff's office wrote.
