Colorado ? It’s nearly 2 a.m. and authorities have found the suspect in a string of break-ins into multimillion-dollar homes. His nose led him right to their trap — a cage filled with barbecue-scented cantaloupe and peaches.

It’s a 550-pound black bear and it nearly fills the entire cage wildlife officers set for him in the driveway of one of the homes. Within a few hours the bear will be dead because officers believe he has become too bold and too dangerous.

The bear is one of nine killed by wildlife officers in Aspen and surrounding Pitkin County so far this summer as some bears have gotten more aggressive in looking for food to prepare for hibernation. One recently broke in to a home through locked French doors and clawed a woman. Last week, a bear bit or scratched a woman as she slept on her deck.

Aspen police responded to about 200 bear sightings and run-ins with people around town in August, up from 16 last August, Chief Richard Pryor said.