{"id":1930404,"date":"2023-05-13T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-fishermen-sentenced-to-jail-for-stuffing-catches-to-win-tournament-prize\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:59:12","slug":"pro-fishermen-sentenced-to-jail-for-stuffing-catches-to-win-tournament-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-fishermen-sentenced-to-jail-for-stuffing-catches-to-win-tournament-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen jailed for cheating in tournament by stuffing catches."},"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\">18<\/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-sentenced-to-jail-for-stuffing-catches-to-win-tournament-prize%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=1930404&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--><h2>Pro Fishermen Sentenced to Jail for Cheating<\/h2>\n<h3>Chase Cominsky and Jacob Runyan<\/h3>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-fing-dollars-you-stole-from-everyone-outrage-at-pro-fishing-tournament-after-winners-allegedly-caught-cheating\/\" title=\"\u2018Thousands Of F***ing Dollars You Stole From Everyone\u2019: Outrage At Pro Fishing Tournament After Winners Allegedly Caught Cheating\">pro fishermen<\/a> from Pennsylvania have been sentenced to 10-day jail stints and forced to forfeit their $130,000 boat after admitting to cheating in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-film-director-cant-forget-familys-escape-from-castros-cuba\/\" title=\"Hollywood Film Director Can\u2019t Forget Family\u2019s Escape from Castro\u2019s Cuba\">fishing tournament<\/a>. Chase Cominsky and Jacob Runyan pleaded guilty to a felony charge of cheating and a misdemeanor for unlawful ownership of wild animals. <\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the pair were declared winners at the weigh-in at the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship (LEWT) in Cleveland. However, their opponents immediately discovered something extra fishy about the supposed winning catches. Video of the incident showed someone cutting open the fish and pulling out what appeared to be lead weights and the filets of another fish that the men had stuffed down the throats of their catches to make them heavier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got thousands of f***ing dollars you stole from everyone!\u201d someone on video accuses the pro fishermen after the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>After serving 10 days in jail, the cheating fishermen will spend a year and a half on probation and pay a $2,500 fine each. Cominsky and Runyan have the option of cutting their fines in half if they donate to a nonprofit organization that promotes fishing with children. Both Cominsky and Runyan\u2019s fishing licenses will be suspended for three years.<\/p>\n<h3>Branded as Cheaters and Thieves<\/h3>\n<p>The pair had been accused of cheating in previous tournaments, and according to court documents, were investigated in the spring of 2022 for cheating in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-fishermen-sentenced-to-jail-for-stuffing-catches-to-win-tournament-prize\/\" title=\"Fishermen jailed for cheating in tournament by stuffing catches.\">separate walleye tournament<\/a>, but there was not enough evidence to press them with charges. In 2021, Cominsky and Runyan reeled in the top catch for the Lake Erie Fall Brawl, which would have won them $100,000, but they were disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re forever gonna be branded with the labels of cheaters and thieves,\u201d said Assistant County Prosecutor Andrew Rogalski. \u201cAfter today, they\u2019ll be convicted felons. And nobody should feel bad for them, because they deserve this and they earned this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pro fishermen who admitted to stuffing their catches with lead were sentenced to 10-day jail stints Thursday. Chase Cominsky and Jacob Runyan, both Pennsylvania residents, appeared in a Cleveland, Ohio, court where they were handed down their jail sentences and also told that they would be forced to forfeit their $130,000 boat, Fox 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1930405,"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":[541],"tags":[8669,13790,21752,9349,26686,6349],"class_list":["post-1930404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-catches","tag-cheating","tag-fishermen","tag-jailed","tag-stuffing","tag-tournament"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930404","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}