{"id":691854,"date":"2026-06-08T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691854\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:13:14","slug":"dead-black-bear-found-dumped-in-burlington-encon-police-ask-public-for-info-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691854\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead black bear found dumped in Burlington, EnCon police ask public for info \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead black bear was found dumped in Burlington over the weekend and Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying the person or people who are responsible.<\/p>\n<p>EnCon police said the 200-pound male black bear was found dumped on the side of Upson Road on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During an assessment of the bear, investigators said it appears there is a wound behind its right front shoulder that is consistent with being shot. <\/p>\n<p>At this point, authorities said they do not believe the incident happened on Upson Road.<\/p>\n<p>EnCon police are now asking for the public&#8217;s help to identify whoever may be responsible for the bear&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact EnCon Police dispatchers at (860) 424-3333 or by email to Officer Matthew Heath at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/dead-black-bear-found-dumped-in-burlington-encon-police-ask-public-for-info\/3742937\/mailto:Matthew.Heath@ct.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew.Heath@ct.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead black bear was found dumped in Burlington over the weekend and Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[55670,79,201],"class_list":["post-691854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-burlington","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}