A black bear with a hankering for meatballs returned to a North Glendale hillside neighborhood early Saturday morning, but this time he wasn’t reported dipping into trash cans or getting into people’s refrigerators.
The bear was spotted at 2:50 a.m. in yards on the 3700 block of Cedarbend Drive and again at 6 a.m. on the 3900 block of Forestglen Drive by a newspaper delivery man, said Glendale Police Sgt. Dan Suttles.
“He’s getting more and more bold,” Suttles said, adding that when officers arrived on the scene both times, the bear was gone.
The bear tends to run away when it sees people, according to California Department of Fish and Game officials who have been monitoring the reportedly 250-pound bear.
The bear was first spotted in March eating Costco meatballs and tuna from a refrigerator in a garage on the 3700 block of Beachglen Drive. The bear has returned to the neighborhood, which sits along the Verdugo Mountains just south of the Foothill (210) Freeway, several times. Fish and Game officials are patrolling the area every day, said spokesman Andrew Hughan.