Three years ago today, on April 27, 2009, Permian High School school administrators in Odessa, Texas, received an anonymous email message revealing that the person they had known as 15-year-old sophomore Jerry Joseph was really 22-year-old Haitian immigrant Guerdwich Montimere! Montimere had become famous as a standout basketball player for the high school team where, not surprisingly, he towered over and ran circles around his classmates. As his fame spread nationally, it was learned that he had already played basketball for another high school in Florida, and graduated from it, several years before.
On July 27, 2011, Montimere was convicted on three counts of Tampering with a Government Document and two counts of Sexual Assault on a Child and sentenced to three years in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at the Tulia unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Swisher, Texas, and is eligible for parole in May 2012.
Montimere is the subject of "Friday Night Lies," one of the chapters in the "Scandal" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State!
