Jurbala saw the bear Thursday night as he was leaving the bar at the Jamison City Hotel in Benton, midway between Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. He called Jeff Hubler, a local employee of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, who had been among those trying for days to capture the bear with a lasso. The two teamed up with Laskowski and her mother, Jody Boyle, to follow the bear.