Officials in California announced this week that four individuals were arrested in an insurance scheme that allegedly included one person wearing a bear costume in a staged attack. California is no stranger to bears breaking into vehicles, but when footage surfaced of bears slipping into luxury cars, it alerted insurers that something was amiss.

The California Department of Insurance teamed up with San Bernardino County authorities to lead “Operation Bear Claw,” which determined that the four people attempted to defraud insurance companies by claiming a bear had entered their luxury cars and caused interior damage.

California is seeing its share of bear break-ins. Now it’s seen a fake one — someone in a bear costumer rummaging through luxury cars.

There is a rather unusual twist in the story of a bear that attacked vehicles in California. Authorities now say the 'bear' is actually something else.

Four people near Los Angeles were arrested for insurance fraud. Investigators allege that they staged a fake bear attack on three different cars, but security camera footage of the incidents show

Police arrested four people charged with insurance fraud. They allege that the suspects used a bear costume to commit said fraud. Their evidence is, in part, video sent to the insurance companies by the suspects themselves.

The suspects are also accused of staging fake-bear videos with two Mercedes-Benz vehicles as part of fraudulent insurance claims.

Four friends in California devised a scheme to commit insurance fraud by using a bear costume to damage luxury cars.