The county prosecutor's office in Cleveland is investigating an apparent cheating scandal during a lucrative walleye fishing tournament on Lake Erie.
The Lake Erie Walleye Trail's tournament director found lead weights and prepared fish filets inside the five fish that he cut open on Friday.
Jacob Runyan, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were disqualified from the competition. The video shows Runyan being insulted and urged to leave.
He said that he cut the fish open because they looked heavier than usual.
The officers of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources gathered evidence from the tournament and prepared a report for the prosecutors.
The staff of the prosecutor will meet with the agency's officers on Tuesday.
There was an attempted felony theft at a fishing tournament. They will be held accountable.
Messages were left for Runyan and Cominsky.
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