They played... they lost. Two Americans who cheated in a fishing contest by weighting their catch with lead were sentenced to ten days in jail and the confiscation of their $130,000 boat.
"I am convinced that these two crooks have cheated in multiple contests in recent years," Michael O'Malley, the prosecutor who prosecuted them in the state of Ohio, said Thursday. He added: "Alas, they can only be held responsible for what they did on September 30, 2022."
Fine and fishing licence suspended
On that day, Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky took part in a walleye fishing competition - a freshwater fish close to pikeperch - held on Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. The first prize of the contest, amounting to $ 28,760, was promised to the team managing to take five of the largest walleye of the lake.
At the time of weighing the catches of the Runyan-Cominsky tandem, the director of the contest had suspicions that their size did not correspond to the weight displayed by the scale. So he opened the fish's abdomens and discovered a number of weights, as well as walleye fillets added to weigh them down. Both competitors were immediately disqualified and the police opened an investigation. In addition to jail and the loss of their boat, the two haddocks will have to pay a fine of $ 2,500 and have had their fishing license suspended for three years, the maximum duration.
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