Suspects convicted for insurance fraud after staging costume bear attacks in luxury vehicles caught on camera

Three Los Angeles-area residents were recently convicted in an unusual insurance fraud scheme using a person in a bear costume to fake attacks on high-end vehicles to collect insurance payouts.As part of the California Department of Insurance's "Operation Bear Claw," Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village; Ruben Tamrazian, 26, of Glendale; and Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, of Glendale, pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and were sentenced to 180 days in jail, two years of supervised probation, and ordered to pay restitution.A fourth suspect, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, of Glendale, is scheduled...

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