A 700-pound black bear has been raiding garages, trash cans and freezers in the Incline Village area of Nevada causing $70,000 worth of damage to homes this year alone.

The big bear has been evading wildlife officers and traps for three years.

The deputies up there all say he’s the biggest bear they’ve ever seen,” Carl Lackey, a biologist and bear expert with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, said. “He’ll walk right by a trap, he won’t go in them. He’s really random in where he goes. He’s made it real tough to catch up with him.”

Over the summer, the bear broke into an Incline Village home and was shot twice with a .44 magnum handgun. The first bullet bounced off the bear’s skull, Lackey said. The second only slowed the bear down for a few weeks before it was back to its old tricks.

The bear is a cause for concern and Lackey recommends using bear-proof containers for outside trash.