Man dresses up as bear, breaks into friend’s Rolls-Royce to trick insurance company for money | Trending

Nov 14, 2024 05:20 PM Four friends in California devised a scheme to commit insurance fraud using a bear costume to damage luxury cars. Desperate to get their hands on cash, a group of friends in California bought a bear costume and hatched a plan to trick their insurance companies. One of the friends dressed up as a bear and damaged the others’ luxury cars so they could allegedly cash in on hefty insurance money. In January, a bear allegedly broke into a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost. (Representational) Four men were arrested in Los Angeles and charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy after they falsely claimed that their vehicles were damaged a bear. The insurance investigators soon discovered that the destruction was actually caused a man wearing a bear costume. In January, a bear allegedly broke into a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost. The owner of the car submitted a video of CCTV footage showing the alleged attack to the insurance company in an attempt to prove that the damage was caused the bear, but the Insurance Department didn’t believe the story. The CCTV video showed the bear entering the window of the Rolls-Royce but the animal’s fur appeared unnaturally shiny and smooth like it a Halloween costume. (Also read: ‘Russia is not for beginners’: Boxer wrestles with massive bear in viral video. Watch) Take a look at the video here: Photographs from inside the luxury car show straight and parallel marks damaging the seats and doors, which did not seem like they could be made a bear’s claws. A biolog from the California Wildlife Department reviewed the video and suggested it was a person in a costume. “Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a costume,” the California Department of Insurance and Fraud told the New York Post. (Also read: Russian man feeds watermelon to giant bear in viral video, leaves internet in disbelief) The insurance companies said that they were defrauded of $141,839, because of the alleged fraud committed the suspects Ruben Tamrazian, Ararat Chirkinian, Vahe Muradkhanyan and Alfiya Zuckerman. They were all charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy. The bear costume was found in one of the men’s home. A photograph, that went viral on social media, showed the bear outfit made up of a furry onesie, attachable paws and claw-like blades that were used to leave the fake bear claw marks. Get Latest Updates on… See more News / Trending / Man dresses up as bear, breaks into friend’s Rolls-Royce to trick insurance company for money