Four people have been arrested in California on suspicion of insurance fraud after claiming their cars were damaged by a bear.

California’s insurance department asked a state biologist to review videos that had been submitted by people seeking payouts for vehicle damage.

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.

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.

Four people were arrested in an insurance fraud case after they submitted footage to an insurance company showing what they said was a bear damaging a luxury car.

Four Los Angeles County residents were arrested after submitting video to insurance companies that appeared to show a bear damaging luxury cars in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., the authorities said. The bear was actually a person in a bear suit,

Four people are under arrest for allegedly using a bear costume to damage their luxury vehicles and filing false insurance claims, authorities said.

Talk about a bear-faced lie! In a wild scheme, a person allegedly donned a bear costume and caused a grizzly amount of damage to

Four California men have been arrested in conjunction with an insurance scam after dressing up in a bear costume and damaging several high-end cars. Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, Vahe Muradkhanyan,