Ohio Fishermen Plead Not Guilty In Cheating Scandal Case

The 2 Ohio anglers who left the sports world stunned after apparently packing fish with weights throughout a competition pled innocent to numerous charges on Wednesday.

42-year-old Jacob Runyan and 35-year-old Chase Cominsky were prosecuted by a grand jury previously this month on felony charges of unfaithful, tried grand theft and having criminal tools … along with misdemeanor illegal ownership of wild animals.

Both anglers appeared in a Cleveland court on Wednesday … however neither spoke.

Runyan, a local of Ohio, and Cominsky, a local of Pennsylvania, were on the brink of winning $28,760 for the 2 seven-pound walleyes fish they captured throughout the Lake Erie occasion in September.

The issue … authorities were suspicious of Runyan’s and Cominsky’s haul — and when they cut the fish open, they discovered they contained weights and other fish filets inside.

Both Runyan and Cominsky had actually been presumed of unfaithful in previous competitions, though there was never ever adequate proof to capture the 2.

Fans at the occasion were annoyed … and firmly insisted that the honchos in charge file a police report versus both guys.