They said a bear attacked their Rolls Royce. But the real culprit was even stranger
LA TimesThe footage is shocking. A brown bear — and there hasn’t been one of those in Southern California for more than a century — breaks into a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, seemingly using the door handle. The suspects are also accused of staging fake-bear videos with two Mercedes-Benz vehicles — a 2015 G63 AMG and a 2022 E350 — and submitting these videos as part of fraudulent insurance claims, the department says. A bear costume with meat claws was discovered in the suspects’ home on Wednesday, according to the insurance department. The Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division began its investigation — dubbed Operation Bear Claw — after an insurance company examined the recording of the Jan. 28 Rolls Royce incident and became suspicious that there was something fishy going on.
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Bear-y clever fraud: California men caught staging rolls-royce break-in for insurance payout
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Four people arrested for wearing a bear costume and faking an attack for insurance money
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'Bear' in Rolls-Royce, Mercedes was actually man in a costume committing insurance fraud
FirstpostInsurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume
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Man dresses up as bear, breaks into friend's Rolls-Royce to trick insurance company for money
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4 suspects in US use costume to stage 'bear attacks' on Rolls-Royce, Mercedes
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Bearly believable! Mother and her cub climb into vehicle... and it's a car crash
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