Barkley Cheaters

[fishy1]

Anyone know what happenned with their court date yesterday? Thanks!

[rbcrawdaddy]

Their case was presented before 2 grand jury`s ( Lyon County and Marshall County) and both come back with an inditement to prosecute on the evidence presented to them by the state.

[skoal]

What excatly went on here?

[easy_13]

>What excatly went on here?

A couple of guys were caught cheating in a tournament on Lake Barkley by weighing in a few fish they had placed in a basket and tied to someone's dock on Lake Barkley. Law enforcement marked the fish and took pictures. When the fish were weighed in, the two were arrested and their property (boat, fishing equipment) seized. They are currently in the court system.

There used to be a story about it on the Paducah Sun's website.

[artcarney_agr]

Check this out for an update:

http://www.wpsdtv.com/articles/stori...ocal_news.html

[charlie1]

From what I've read so far the authorities got them red-handed on the one tournament, but how in the world are they going to prove they cheated in the others? I mean, it's odd they all of a sudden a couple guys come out of nowhere and start winning big but that's circumstantial. If these guys were willing to cheat in the tournament they got caught in do you think they will answer honestly on the witness stand when asked, "Hey, by the way, did you cheat in the other tournaments?"

[the_donger]

Unless they are dumb enough to confess (we can always hope)or there is new evidence no one has heard yet, I do not think it would be possible to convict for any of the earlier tournaments.

[bullrdr6]

I don't think they'll get the conviction on the other tournaments but I think they'll put enough information in the Jury's head that these guys won't get off easy.

Charlie

[tfmuch]

Here is a news report from channel 6 news. You can check it out.

http://www.wpsdtv.com/articles/stori...ocal_news.html

[Guest Author]

The paper said that A fish and wildlife officer claims he found and marked the fish which the men switched before weigh-in. What does that mean. Did they switch the fish they weighed in..
maybe thats the problem. But thats not what was wrote in the first story. Hope they get everything they deserve...

[Roothead]

They plead innocent!

[bje]

Maybe they are stalling in order to work out a plea agreement or maybe they have exculpatory evidence, obviously they are innocent until judged guilty by the court.