Breaking News: 'Jerry Joseph' Jaws with GQ!

In May 2010, residents of Odessa, Texas, were stunned to learn that the standout sophomore Permian High School basketball player they knew as Jerry Joseph was really a 22-year old man.

Joseph -- aka Guerdwich Montimere, a naturalized immigrant from Haiti who played high school basketball in Florida (shown here hulking over a genuine high-school student) -- was arrested and has been jailed in Ector County, Texas, for the past 14 months and is awaiting trial on a half-dozen charges that include presenting false identification to a peace officer and statutory rape. Joseph/Montimere recently gave his first interview in more than a year to GQ magazine.

"Odessa is still dumbstruck," writes author Michael J. Mooney in the article. "Principal Garcia wonders if maybe the kid picked Permian because it's the school from Friday Night Lights. 'Maybe he thought we were all a bunch of dumb hillbillies?'"

Go to "Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal" to read the full text of the story in the July 2011 issue of GQ magazine. Joseph/Montimere is all the subject of the chapter "Friday Night Lies" in Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State. See also "Jerry Joseph Sentenced to 3 Years!"