(KTLA) — 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.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to a report that a momma bear had apparently been hit by a car and was found with its cub lying in an apartment parking lot in Truckee.

Bear 211 became a social media sensation earlier this summer for his escapades around New York and Connecticut Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...