Posted on 10/13/2022 5:14:17 AM PDT by C19fan
Two anglers accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament were indicted on Wednesday on charges of attempted grand theft and other counts.
Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were indicted in Cleveland on felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft, possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor charges of unlawfully owning wild animals.
The pair are due to be arraigned October 26.
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They were stealing money. Why shouldn’t they be prosecuted?
Look up the “black sox” scandal.
A 14-inch Walleye don’t weigh 5 pounds.
Cheating in a sporting contest is a bit different from robbing a bank.
“unlawfully owning wild animals”
That’s a new one...
I don’t have sympathy for these cheaters, though Carl Hiaasen described the fraud in the bass fishing competition in his novels.
But, what about indictments for Hunter, Brandon, Hillary, the corrupt FBI, BLM and all their enablers burning down cities and profiting off of wars and misery.
A tackle box with lead weights? Seems like a reach.
The should have just called the EPA on account of lead being in the water.
I guess we’ll be needing a lot of paddy wagons at football games.
There's a word for that: געפֿילט
its a bit more than just a sporting contest. They were competing for and cheating to win cash prizes. They took in hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years. What they did fits the definition of fraud. They can and should be prosecuted for it.
Do you think there is a lot of cheating in sports, both college and professional? Has anyone ever done a deep-dive book about it that’s out there to read? I am curious.
Black Sox didn’t rob a bank.
And yes it is different. It’s more like stealing a car.
It’s more than just small lead weights. Did you see the video? They are huge weights and they had to cut the fish open or shove them in with a tool.
Exactly. What they did was wrong, but where are the priorities of law enforcement these days?
The bumbling ignorance of these two reminds me of a Mark Twain story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These two guys sound much like two shysters whose aliases were “The Duke” and “The Dauphin” and who bamboozled Finn and his black friend Jim as they rafted down the Mississippi. Or Twain’s story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog. Are there actually people still so bumblingly dumb as to try such a trick?! Ai-yai-yai!
So?
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