A roaming black bear captured in Townsend last week now has a new home.
Townsend resident Kerry Shibley said the bear kept her on virtual house arrest for weeks because it kept showing up in her yard.
Because the bear was becoming so bold and not afraid of humans, authorities wanted to relocate it. Townsend Police captured the bear last Friday, and handed it over to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
TWRA officials say they released the bear in the Cherokee National Forest on Sunday, so it can still live in the wild but won't harass a Townsend homeowner any longer.
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