Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe June 16 (UPI) -- Police in Georgia were recorded struggling to corner a young black bear that wandered onto the grounds of an optical fiber cable company. A video posted to Facebook on June 10 by Javy Alvarez, an employee at OFS Fitel in Norcross, shows a young black bear climbing on some scaffolding while workers joke about putting the animal to work. Advertisement A second video shows Gwinnett County Police and Animal Control officers struggling to corner the black bear once it returned to the ground. A police officer with a riot shield attempts to block the bear's path, but it easily passes him and flees. "I'm not chasing a bear!" one officer can be heard shouting. Police said they were able to keep an eye on the bear until a wildlife technician with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources arrived on the scene. "We were able to safely dart the bear, once it ran up into a tree. The bear came down on its own out of the tree once darted and was loaded into a trailer," a DNR representative told WXIA-TV. Advertisement The DNR said the bear was released into a state-managed wildlife area in northeast Georgia. Read More Bear opens van door, climbs inside while man films Security camera captures mother bear's coyote confrontation Bear surprises runners by briefly joining Colorado race
