Four Southern Californians arrested Wednesday are facing fraud charges for allegedly using a person in a bear costume to fake vandalism damage to a Rolls Royce Ghost. It cost insurance companies $141,

In January, a security camera captured unnerving footage: what appeared to be a bear had forced its way into a Rolls Royce parked outside a home in the Southern California resort community of Lake Arrowhead, gouged the seats and thrashed the interior.

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.

A suspected fraudster dressed up in a bear costume before damaging cars in an insurance scam in the United States.

LOS ANGELES — California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars. But bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn't quite right. In what's dubbed “Operation Bear Claw,