A man accused of killing a person and staging it as a fatal bear attack in Tennessee was taken into custody in South Carolina over the weekend on murder charges, in what authorities described as a plot to steal the victim’s identity.

Officials in California announced this week that four individuals were arrested in an insurance scheme that allegedly included one person wearing a bear costume in a staged attack. California is no stranger to bears breaking into vehicles, but when footage surfaced of bears slipping into luxury cars, it alerted insurers that something was amiss.

The suspect was taken into custody, ending a multistate manhunt in a case involving a suspicious emergency call, a false identity and a fake bear attack.

Four Los Angeles residents have been arrested after faking a bear attack for insurance payouts. They claimed a bear had damaged their vehicles, but it was actually a person in a bear costume.

Four people have been arrested in Los Angeles for an alleged scam where they dressed up in a bear costume and faked a string of attacks in order to cash in on insurance claims.

Four men are under arrest in California after donning a bear costume to feign damage to high-end cars in an insurance scam.

Four California men have been arrested in conjunction with an insurance scam after dressing up in a bear costume and damaging several high-end cars. Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, Vahe Muradkhanyan,

The California Insurance Department says a biologist reviewed the videos and confirmed it was "clearly a person in a bear suit."

A group of Los Angeles County residents were arrested after they allegedly staged bear attacks using a costume in order to receive payouts from their car insurance providers, investigators say.