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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums'Hank the Tank': DNA evidence spares 500lb burglar bear
BBC News
California's burliest burglar is no longer the lone suspect in nearly 40 home break-ins across the Lake Tahoe region, wildlife officials have said.
Residents have made more than 150 calls since last summer about "Hank the Tank", a 500lb (227kg) black bear with a raging appetite for human food.
But DNA samples have now linked at least two other bears to the crime scenes.
That means officials will no longer seek to put down the wild animal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60532151
Obviously it's an organized bear gang. But how on earth did they get a DNA sample?
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'Hank the Tank': DNA evidence spares 500lb burglar bear (Original Post)
Wicked Blue
Feb 2022
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Duncanpup
(12,860 posts)1. On DNA
Criminals always screw up apparently this gang just got to cocky and left evidence.
multigraincracker
(32,688 posts)2. Does the bear poop
at the crime scene?
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)3. No, but the Pope might
spooky3
(34,458 posts)4. LOL! Nt
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)5. But he looks guilty.