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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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.
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Well, it’s good to see the government focusing on fraud and theft on game fish cheaters and not worrying about those petty thefts like all the politicians who get multi-million dollar book deals where only a few thousand copies are ever sold or where completely unqualified family members collect millions of dollars sitting as board members on foreign companies, which has absolutely nothing to do with other family members being in high positions in the U.S. government. Or government agencies who approve drugs which don’t work so Big Pharma can pocket billions. Yes, the threat is Big Sports Fishing cheating.
Just don’t get caught. They got caught.
But the real issue is they were the #1 winner all season...and were being accused of cheating before. So they know they stole money in the past via cheating. They are being prosecuted for the current attempt at stealing.
I think they ment “Erie”.
people have no honor or decency any more.
So those are tools used to commit a crime.
That’s how the system works.
So they were arrested for attempted grand theft of prizes because they cheated? Can we at least revoke the Astros’ 2019 pennant?
As an avid angler I wholeheartedly approve of these indictments.
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They are White hill billies, fry them. At least the BLM arsonists walk free.
Yeah... there’s a lot more money in the fishing tournaments.
All fishermen will need to surrender to their local constabulary.
Except the sporting contest in question pays a whole lot more than the average bank robbery. This competition paid $30,000. The average bank robbery is $2,000
These two were getting away with it for a while though. That’s the problem with cheating...you get more and more brazen with it and you’ll get caught.
This is a miscarriage of justice!
Those fish probably ingested that lead while snacking on the enticements that previous anglers had dangled under their noses. The walleyes probably thought the weights were the hors d’oeuvre and the bait on the hook, the main course. Or vice-versa, they’d probably heard about all the stuff French people eat.
Maybe they came to prefer the lead to the bait, finding it would “stick to the ribs.” I mean look, fish aren’t exactly scholars and they call these particular ones ‘walleyes.’ There must be a reason.
Oh yeah, almost forgot— does the rule book explicitly bar the contestants from stuffing the fish? Maybe the suspects were just trying to keep their catch in the boat, lest they flop back into the water.
It’s all plausible— but the main issue: we have here a contest centered around the wholesale destruction of a particular species, a crucial link in nature’s circle of life. Aren’t there other fish in that dammed creek? Why were they excluded?
It seems wrong, so very very wrong.
correct...they can take the money back...or the guys house. walleye...best fish ever...from canadian waters...
Well. It’s a well known fact that all fishermen are liars, but must they be thieves as well?
“Focusing on”? These guys got caught live on video in front of dozens of witnesses. Cops are supposed to ignore that because of political corruption in Washington? This may be the dumbest take ever.
greater repercussions for attempting to cheat at a fishing tournament than Biden will ever face for cheating in the 2020 election.
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