POLICE BLOTTER: LOOSE MOOSE

Bangor Daily News - A moose on the loose in the Knox Mill Center generated excitement [in Camden] before it was sedated, transported and set free that afternoon in the Ruffingham Meadow State Game Management Area in Searsmont. The 500-pound cow moose apparently wandered into the building about 8:30 a.m. through an open back door used by Sage Market. Its lumbering bulk was a shock to staff and residents of the mixed-use complex on the Megunticook River formerly used by credit card company MBNA. "You can't make this stuff up," said Lt. Randy Gagne of the Camden Police Department. "I've chased moose all over town, but I've never had one go into a building. You don't see that every day." . . . When the moose was in the building, it seemed a little panicky, witnesses said, but didn't hurt anyone or get hurt itself. ". . . At about noon Connolly and biologist Keel Kemper jabbed the animal with two doses of tranquilizer. Once the moose was sedated, the biologists had help from the Police Department and complex staff to move it outside on a tarp. The moose was loaded onto the back of a pickup truck with a backhoe, said Gagne.