Four Los Angeles residents are accused of using a bear costume to defraud car insurance companies.

Three insurance claims involving a bear damaging luxury cars in California are now believed to be fraud after it was determined that the culprit was actually a man in a costume. Four Los Angeles residents were arrested as part of the scheme,

The department had a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife review the three videos, who concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the insurance department said. After executing a search warrant, detectives found the bear costume in the suspects’ home, the department said.

Four people near Los Angeles were arrested for insurance fraud. Investigators allege that they staged a fake bear attack on three different cars, but security camera footage of the incidents show

Four friends in California devised a scheme to commit insurance fraud by using a bear costume to damage luxury cars.