A bear’s eventful journey through Eastside cities ended in Bothell Wednesday night.

The young black bear, first spotted in Redmond Tuesday morning, made its way north and was captured by wildlife agents in a patch of woods between two Bothell schools at around 7:30 p.m., according to Sgt. Kim Chandler of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Chandler said the bear is safe and will be released into a less-populated area — more suited for bears — in Snohomish County.

Chandler said this was the same bear that several Redmond and Kirkland residents spotted Tuesday. Chandler got a call early Wednesday morning — around 6 a.m. — that the bear was spotted in a woodsy area between Northshore Junior High and Woodmoor Elementary. Both schools went into a modified lockdown as a precaution, according to district communications director Leanna Albrecht.

Wildlife agents responded to the area to search for the bear. Agents found the bear in the afternoon and shot a tranquilizer dart at the bear, but the bear escaped further into the woods.

Then a few hours later, agents used a dog to locate the bear, which was found in a tree. Agents waited for the bear to come down, tranquilized it and then transported it in a bear trap to somewhere in Snohomish County, Chandler said.

Chandler said usually wildlife agents don’t respond to bear sightings, but they got involved because of the bear’s proximity to schools. He pointed out the bear was not dangerous.

“This bear was just looking for food, but he was not going to eat the kids,” Chandler said. “He was harmless, but we wanted to err on the side of caution.”

There were about a dozen sightings of the bear heading north along the Redmond-Kirkland border Tuesday morning, according to Chandler before he got calls of it being spotted in Bothell.

“He probably came from the east out of the Redmond Watershed. … He is coming out of hibernation and he is hungry. So if he smells something he likes, he’s will stop.”