Bear Suit Car Insurance Fraudsters Get Six Months Behind Bars

Remember back successful 2024 erstwhile we covered nan astir foolproof maestro scheme of immoderate security fraudsters to dress up successful a clone carnivore suit and grounds themselves utilizing meat-shredding "claws" to unsmooth up 3 luxury cars successful hopes of receiving a car security payout for nan damage? Well those fraudsters conscionable sewage their time successful court, and it didn't extremity beary good for nan 3 Southern California residents; they each sewage 180 days successful jailhouse and are ordered to salary much than $50,000 successful restitution.

The ruthless criminals who committed this heinous crime are Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village, California, Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, and Ararat Chirkinian, 39, each residents of Glendale, California. Together, these wily rapscallions collected $141,839 successful security payouts from nan poor, unsuspecting car security companies. They mauled nan interiors of a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost, a 2015 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG, and a 2022 Mercedes-Benz E350.

Zuckerman, Tamrazian, Muradkhanyan each sewage sentenced to 180 days successful a play jailhouse programme and 2 years of supervised probation, but Zuckerman must salary $55,360 successful restitution, while Tamrazian was ordered to salary $52,268. Muradkhanyan's restitution is yet to beryllium determined. Chirkinian is scheduled to return to tribunal successful September for a preliminary hearing.

Despite nan video footage of nan expected carnivore onslaught showing beautiful intelligibly that nan alleged carnivore was conscionable a personification successful a carnivore suit, a biologist from nan California Department of Fish and Wildlife was still asked to reappraisal nan footage. They did, and concluded that nan animal shown was "clearly a quality successful a carnivore suit." Detectives from nan California Department of Insurance were assisted by nan Glendale Police Department and nan California Highway Patrol, and nan San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office is prosecuting nan case.

I, for one, americium proud to spot my taxation dollars and our awesome American Justice System erstwhile again keeping convulsive criminals for illustration these 4 disconnected our streets, and ensuring that innocent, rule abiding car security companies don't extremity up getting taken advantage of by crooks. This is precisely nan benignant of hard-hitting investigative publicity that I sewage my publicity grade to cover. If you're readying to do insurance fraud, possibly don't do it rather this badly.