four Los Angeles residents have been accused of defrauding three insurance companies by claiming a bear caused damage to their vehicles in what has been dubbed operation bear claw the group is accused of providing video footage of a bear moving inside three vehicles one of the insurance companies suspected that the bear in the video was someone in a bear suit detectives found a bear costume in the suspect’s home and a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said it was clearly a human in a bear suit