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Hank the Tank turns out to be 3 bears ransacking Lake Tahoe homes
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Hank the Tank is actually a three-bear battalion. DNA evidence shows the bear is, in fact, at least three bears who have damaged Lake Tahoe properties.
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'Hank the Tank,' Lake Tahoe bear, gets exonerated for many home break-ins
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Hank the Tank turns out to be 3 bears ransacking Lake Tahoe homes
By Sara Smart, CNN You may know him as Hank the Tank, but the California Department of Fish and Wildlife knows him as a threat to a Lake Tahoe neighborhood. For months now, the 500-pound black bear has been roaming the streets in the Tahoe Keys area of South Lake Tahoe, about 100 miles east
Police in South Lake Tahoe, California, said Wednesday that they continue to receive phone calls about a 500-pound black bear who has broken into dozens of homes in the area.
(CNN) — You may know him as Hank the Tank, but the California Department of Fish and Wildlife knows him as a threat to a Lake Tahoe neighborhood. For months now, the 500-pound black bear has been roaming the streets in the Tahoe Keys area of South Lake Tahoe, about 100 miles east of Sacramento. …
Hank the Tank is actually a three-bear battalion. DNA evidence now shows that the 500-pound black bear the public had nicknamed “Hank the Tank” is, in fact, three not-so-little bears
DNA samples show that at least two other bears have broken into area homes, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The bears have caused a lot of damage.
The massive black bear, known as Hank the Tank and blamed for breaking and entering more than two dozen homes in California's Lake Tahoe area, is no longer the sole suspect, according to officials.
Hank the Tank is actually a three-bear battalion. DNA evidence shows the bear is, in fact, at least three bears who have damaged Lake Tahoe properties.
At least three black bears are behind a string of brazen break-ins in the Lake Tahoe area, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
DNA evidence shows as manly as three other bears may be the culprit in more than 150 incident reports in the region straddling Northern California and Nevada.
A large black bear that was set to be captured and euthanized for allegedly breaking into dozens of Lake Tahoe homes will be spared, state wildlife officials announced.
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