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Two tournament anglers plead guilty in Lake Erie walleye scandal

Two tournament fishermen who were facing felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) Championship in September of 2022 pleaded guilty in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Monday, March 27.
Jacob Runyan, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pa., pleaded guilty to two charges: cheating, a fifth-degree felony, and unlawful ownership of wild animals, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

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