La Crescenta — A black bear weighing about 400 pounds strolls through the front yard of a home on the 2300 block of Mayfield Avenue in La Crescenta on Tuesday morning.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies look for an elusive black bear that played hide and seek with them and Fish and Game officers Tuesday morning in La Crescenta.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Residents of the 2400 block of Montrose Avenue watch the capture of a black bear found wandering their La Crescenta neighborhood early Tuesday morning.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — A black bear weighing 400 pounds strolls through a front yard in La Crescenta.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Fish and Game officer Lt. Martin Wall prepares a tranquilizer dart for the errant black bear.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Fish and Game officer Lt. Martin Wall corners the bear in an apartment complex and shoots it with a tranquilizer dart.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — The bear starts to feel the effects of the tranquilizer, finally collapsing.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Curious neighbors witness the capture of a black bear that was wandering their neighborhood in La Crescenta on Tuesday morning.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Curious residents watch the capture of the bear from a rooftop.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — The bear is down for the count after being shot with three tranquilizer darts.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — It took more than a half-dozen Fish and Game authorities to carry the bear through the narrow complex gate on a blanket.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times  La Crescenta — Authorities carry the 400-pound bear to a waiting cage secured on a trailer attached to a pickup truck. From there, they took the bear home to the Angeles National Forest.  PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times
The "Glendale bear," a 400-pound black bear that has been causing a stir with its visits to the hillside communities around Angeles National Forest, was given a lift back home  Tuesday morning after Fish and Game authorities captured and contained the so-called Glen Bearian wandering in a La...