{"id":714279,"date":"2026-06-19T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:07:09","slug":"bear-released-back-into-wild-after-wandering-around-portlands-old-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714279\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear released back into wild after wandering around Portland&#8217;s Old Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; A bear is back in the wild after making the rounds in Portland&#8217;s Old Port Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:30 a.m., police responded to reports the young black bear was around the York Street area.<\/p>\n<p>The bear then wound up in a basement-level parking garage under the Portland Harbor Hotel near Union and Fore Streets.<\/p>\n<p>Officers surrounded the area.<\/p>\n<p>Wardens and state wildlife biologists helped out, and the bear was tranquilized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A bear is back in the wild after making the rounds in Portland's Old Port Friday. (Portland Police Department)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b983abe5-edcf-43ab-983e-ac17c9e2659e-bear1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A bear is back in the wild after making the rounds in Portland&#8217;s Old Port Friday. (Portland Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Police say it was taken to a suitable area and released back into the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; A bear is back in the wild after making the rounds in Portland&#8217;s Old Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-714279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714279","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=714279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}