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

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.

Bear attack’ on Rolls-Royce was person in costume attempting insurance scam, say police - Biologist who reviewed the footage for the insurance claims said it was ‘clearly a human in a bear suit’