Two men from Washington City were sentenced to probation and community service for cheating in a Utah fishing competition. Robert Dennett, 45, and Kamron Wootton, 35, participated in a largemouth bass fishing tournament at Lake Powell in Oct. 2018 and passed off fraudulent catches they fished in a different lake, according to a report from The New York Times. The pair won the tournament’s $2,500 prize after they turned in five fish with the highest total weight. However, the agency noted that there were visual differences between the fish Dennett and Wootton handed over, versus what is typically found in Lake Powell. A bass caught by Dennett and Wooton was sent to the University of Utah for testing and was found to have a forensic makeup that is different from what is found in Lake Powell, according to the New York Times.

Source: Fox News September 24, 2020 00:22 UTC