Black Bear Roaming Manalapan and Englishtown

Englishtown Police chased the bear out of the residential borough and into a heavily wooded area of Manalapan.

A black bear, approximately 6 to 8 ft. in height, was found sauntering through Manalapan Township and into Englishtown Borough shortly before 1 p.m. today. Lt. Peter Cooke Jr. of the Englishtown Police Department said that the police received word of the bear through Monmouth County dispatch. Dispatch told Englishtown police that the bear was first sighted on Iron Ore Road near Mount Vernon Road. in Manalapan and headed towards Englishtown. Several Englishtown police officers went to the vicinity of the sighting; a landscaper on Woodruff Court told police that he had just spotted the bear on his street, Cooke said. Cooke and a couple of more police officers responded to the area and located the bear on Heritage Drive, which is one street …

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