CORTLAND – A 200-pound black bear, once a recent native of Chenango County has died after State DEC officials and the City of Cortland Public Works Department worked to remove the 2-year-old bear from its perch some 30 feet in a maple tree, Monday.

Earlier in April, the DEC captured and tagged this exact bear in the Village of Earlville, on the border between Madison and Chenango counties.

While the bear had not attacked or been aggressive, DEC Officials have confirmed that this was the same bear that was located in Herkimer just two weeks ago–removed from a tree in a similar situation–creating havoc in urban areas over a swath of central New York at least 60 miles long in recent weeks.

It was then the DEC decided to tag and collar the animal.

At just after 5 a.m. Monday, the Cortland City Police received a call of reported a black bear that ran in front of a vehicle. The Cortland Fire Department was called in to block off the street after the bear retreated into the tree located at the corner Crandall and Elm Streets on the City's east side.

The rogue bear had to be tranquilized, and after the bear was asleep it became entangled in branches. With the help of a bucket truck the DEC Conservation Officers were able to nudge him into a net.