Ohio Fishermen Plead Not Responsible In Dishonest Scandal Case

The 2 Ohio fishermen who left the sports activities world shocked after allegedly stuffing fish with weights throughout a match pled not responsible to a number of costs on Wednesday.

42-year-old Jacob Runyan and 35-year-old Chase Cominsky had been indicted by a grand jury earlier this month on felony costs of dishonest, tried grand theft and possessing legal instruments … in addition to misdemeanor illegal possession of untamed animals.

Each anglers appeared in a Cleveland courtroom on Wednesday … however neither spoke.

Runyan, a local of Ohio, and Cominsky, a local of Pennsylvania, had been on the verge of profitable $28,760 for the 2 seven-pound walleyes fish they caught in the course of the Lake Erie occasion in September.

The issue … officers had been suspicious of Runyan’s and Cominsky’s haul — and as soon as they lower the fish open, they seen they contained weights and different fish filets inside.

Each Runyan and Cominsky had been suspected of dishonest in previous tournaments, although there was by no means sufficient proof to nab the 2.

Followers on the occasion had been pissed off … and insisted that the honchos in cost file a police report towards each males.