Photo: California Dept of Insurance
California authorities arrested four individuals for what they say was a bizarre fraud insurance scheme wherein the suspects reported that a bear had trashed their car, but video evidence revealed that the 'creature' was someone in a costume. The state's Department of Insurance detailed the strange case, which they cleverly dubbed 'Operation Bear Claw,' in a press release on Wednesday. The situation came to their attention when an insurance company alerted them to a suspicious late January claim in which the customer provided security footage seemingly showing that a bear had destroyed the inside of their car.
More on this wild story at the Coast to Coast AM website.