Fishermen caught cheating in Ohio tournament get 10 days in jail
Jacob Runyan, 43, and Chase Cominsky, 36, were sentenced on Thursday in Cleveland after pleading guilty in March to cheating and unlawful ownership of wild animals.
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Jacob Runyan, 43, and Chase Cominsky, 36, were sentenced on Thursday in Cleveland after pleading guilty in March to cheating and unlawful ownership of wild animals.
The scales of justice have caught two anglers found cheating during a fishing tournament in the midwestern US state of Ohio.
(BBC) – Two men at the center of a scandal that rocked the world of competitive fishing have been sentenced to 10 days in jail. Jacob Runyan, 43, and Chase Cominsky, 36, were disqualified last September from an Ohio contest to catch the heaviest walleye in Lake Erie. WND is now on Trump's Truth Social!…
The cheating allegations surfaced in September when the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament director became suspicious the fish turned in by the pair.
The charges stem from an incident in October of 2022 in which Runyan and Cominsky cut open fish and placed lead weights inside the fish.