{"id":1687084,"date":"2022-10-12T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687084"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:36:41","slug":"pro-fishermen-allegedly-caught-cheating-on-video-charged-with-felonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-fishermen-allegedly-caught-cheating-on-video-charged-with-felonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Fishermen Allegedly Caught Cheating On Video Charged With Felonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-fishermen-allegedly-caught-cheating-on-video-charged-with-felonies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two pro fishermen were indicted on felony charges Wednesday after they were allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thousands-of-fing-dollars-you-stole-from-everyone-outrage-at-pro-fishing-tournament-after-winners-allegedly-caught-cheating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught<\/a> stuffing their fish with lead and other items before the weigh-in at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ohio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio<\/a> fishing tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan were declared winners at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship (LEWT) in Cleveland last month before their fellow competitors found the bizarre items stuffed in their catches. Runyan, 42, and Cominsky, 35, have now been indicted on felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft, and possessing criminal tools, ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/story\/_\/id\/34783425\/prosecutor-fisherman-caught-cheating-tournament-charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the alleged cheating incident showed someone cutting open the fish and pulling out lead weights and even the filets of another fish that the men had allegedly stuffed down the throats of their catches to make them heavier.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple people can be heard urging someone to \u201ccall the cops\u201d and file a police report over the alleged cheating scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got thousands of f***ing dollars you stole from everyone!\u201d someone accuses.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serious Controversy in Pro fishing tournament as multiple-time winners caught stuffing lead weights and other fish filets in their fish to have the heaviest catch to win hundreds of thousands in prizes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sxqeo2XC0K\">pic.twitter.com\/Sxqeo2XC0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Billy (@Billyhottakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Billyhottakes\/status\/1576246821139070976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/nexstar-media-wire\/investigators-seize-boat-from-fisherman-accused-in-cheating-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized<\/a> a Ranger Pro Fisherman boat and a trailer from Cominsky\u2019s Pennsylvania property and took them as evidence. Runyan and Cominsky were also charged with misdemeanors of unlawfully owning wild animals and are scheduled to be arraigned on October 26. The fishermen would have won over $28,000 at the Ohio tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The two fishermen have been accused of cheating in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/sports\/outdoors\/2022\/10\/01\/cheating-scandal-rocks-lake-erie-walleye-tournament\/stories\/20221001117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Toledo Blade.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the tournament receive cash prizes of up to $100,000 and are determined by the weight of their five largest catches, according to the LEWT <a href=\"https:\/\/lakeeriewalleyetrail.com\/tournament-rules-bwwc-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. Another prize goes to the largest single walleye caught. The official Facebook page for the event said the latest incident proved there was cheating during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisgusted guys and gals, I\u2019m sorry for letting you down for so long and I\u2019m glad I caught cheating taking place in YOUR LEWT at the same time,\u201d Tournament Director and police officer Jason Fischer said, adding, \u201cI hope you know now that when I say \u2018you built this LEWT and I will defend its integrity at all costs,\u2019 I mean it. You all deserve the best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pro fishermen were indicted on felony charges Wednesday after they were allegedly caught stuffing their fish with lead and other items before the weigh-in at an Ohio fishing tournament. Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyan were declared winners at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship (LEWT) in Cleveland last month before their fellow competitors found &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-fishermen-allegedly-caught-cheating-on-video-charged-with-felonies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}