The Pennsylvania Game Commission<\/a>, working with South Whitehall police, captured the bear May 19 at 4238 W. Walnut St. in the township, near the Lehigh County Sports Fields.<\/p>\n\u201cDunkin\u2019 of Philadelphia loved how doughnuts were the bear\u2019s bait of choice for the capture and delivered doughnuts and coffee to the police department for them to enjoy the doughnuts as much as the bear did!\u201d Dunkin\u2019 spokesperson Carly Hutter said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n
South Whitehall police Sgt. Joel Wischner said Friday that after several sightings of the bear, he went out May 18 with game wardens David Furmato and Jacob Wieder to set up a culvert trap near a wooded area, baited with about two or three dozen Dunkin\u2019 doughnuts the wardens brought.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said they like to let the doughnuts ferment for a few days before they use them, so they were sticky and had a very sweet smell to them, I would say,\u201d Wischner said.<\/p>\n
The sergeant added that alongside the doughnuts and coffee on Friday, Dunkin\u2019 gave the department several hundreds of dollars\u2019 worth of gift cards, which he intends to share with the game wardens \u2014 \u201cThey\u2019re the true heroes, I guess you could say, at this one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a nice little surprise,\u201d Wischner said of the delivery.<\/p>\n
The Facebook page<\/a> for the police department also posted, \u201cWhat do bears and cops have in common? They both LOVE Dunkin\u2019 donuts! A big thank you to Carly and the Philadelphia Dunkin\u2019 team for surprising our department today on National Donut Day with donuts and coffee. The thoughtful gesture was in recognition of our Dunkin\u2019 lovin\u2019 SWT bear that was safely captured back in May. We\u2019re incredibly grateful for the expertise, assistance, and partnership of the PA Game Commission in ensuring the safe capture of our township bear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America runs on Dunkin\u2019, and so do bears, apparently. South Whitehall Township police recently used the treats as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,202,433,182,139,9790,28,436,664,432],"class_list":["post-211873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-parkland-area","tag-pennsylvania","tag-retail","tag-south-whitehall-township","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}