Photo: California Department of Insurance
Three California residents are headed to jail for a bizarre insurance fraud scheme in which they claimed their vehicles had been damaged by a bear, but it was actually a person in a costume. The wildly weird case made headlines back in November of 2024 when the state's Department of Insurance announced the arrest of four suspects following an investigation cleverly dubbed 'Operation Bear Claw.' Authorities were alerted to the scheme, they explained, when an insurance company grew suspicious when it received a claim about a bear damaging a vehicle, and something seemed amiss with the security footage that was included with the case.
More on this strange story at the Coast to Coast AM website.