Coaches allege Dillard graduate playing high school basketball in Texas


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Three years ago, Guerdwich Montimere helped lead Dillard to a berth in the boys' state basketball tournament.

Today, some of Montimere's former coaches believe the 2007 graduate has resurfaced — as Jerry Joseph, a high school sophomore playing basketball in Odessa, Texas.

"I'm 100 percent sure," Boyd Anderson assistant coach Cedric Smith said. "I would bet my paycheck."

Smith says he and coach Louis Vives of the South Florida Elite saw Montimere at an AAU tournament in Arkansas last month.

Vives approached him, shook his hand and addressed him by the name Guerdwich.

"He acknowledged me like he didn't know me," Vives said.

Now, they aren't the only ones concerned that a 22-year old may be posing as a high school sophomore.

Last week, officials at Permian High began an investigation into Joseph's background after the school received an anonymous e-mail.

According to a report in the Odessa American, that investigation prompted Permian officials to contact the Ector County Independent School District police, who contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/highschool/basketball/browardboys/fl-basketball-switcheroo-0504-20100504,0,7901267.story
 
TEXAS............:goof:

Where everything is big.................Even Cheating.
I have heard it all now.:lol:
 

This is right up there wtih the female track star that was accused/investigated to determine if she was a boy!! :lol::lol:
 
I am about to start playing next year, as soon as i do something with the lil bit of gray I got.
 
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Three years ago, Guerdwich Montimere helped lead Dillard to a berth in the boys' state basketball tournament.

Today, some of Montimere's former coaches believe the 2007 graduate has resurfaced — as Jerry Joseph, a high school sophomore playing basketball in Odessa, Texas.

"I'm 100 percent sure," Boyd Anderson assistant coach Cedric Smith said. "I would bet my paycheck."

Smith says he and coach Louis Vives of the South Florida Elite saw Montimere at an AAU tournament in Arkansas last month.

Vives approached him, shook his hand and addressed him by the name Guerdwich.

"He acknowledged me like he didn't know me," Vives said.

Now, they aren't the only ones concerned that a 22-year old may be posing as a high school sophomore.

Last week, officials at Permian High began an investigation into Joseph's background after the school received an anonymous e-mail.

According to a report in the Odessa American, that investigation prompted Permian officials to contact the Ector County Independent School District police, who contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/highschool/basketball/browardboys/fl-basketball-switcheroo-0504-20100504,0,7901267.story
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I saw that on the clarionledger and I'm wondering whether it is true or not! If he is then "WHAT IS TO GAIN FROM IT!?" !@@#$%^&*:upset: (NOT CURSING) I CAN SEE IT NOW, "I JUST WANTED TO GET A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND START MY LIFE RIGHT SO I CAN MAKE THAT MONEY THROUGH BASKETBALL; NO ONE WOULD NO MY AGE PLUS I LOOK YOUNGER THAN I AM :)splat:)"
 
Immigration verified that it wasnt dude.....but the kid is here illegally....


ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa told the USA Today that officials from her agency have determined through fingerprints that Joseph is not Montimere. He is, however, in the country illegally. An immigration hearing is pending.

read the rest
 
I thought immigration officials said it wasn't him...:retard:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37099543/ns/sports-other_sports/


Police: High school hoops star actually 22
Man formerly starred in Florida, posed as 16-year-old

updated 11:45 p.m. CT, Tues., May 11, 2010
ODESSA, Texas - A West Texas student who led his high school basketball team to the state playoffs last season was actually a 22-year-old man, police said Tuesday.

Police say the basketball star was really Guerdwich Montimere, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who school officials say was recognized last month by Florida coaches as having been a star high school player in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a few years ago.

Ector County school district officials said the man posed as 16-year-old Jerry Joseph and enrolled at Permian High School in Odessa for the 2009-2010 academic year. He also presented himself as homeless to the school’s basketball coach, Danny Wright, who took the boy in last summer, the coach said.

Montimere was arrested at Permian High on Tuesday and booked into Ector County jail on a charge of presenting false identification to a peace officer.

Officials said Jerry Joseph originally enrolled at the local junior high as a 15-year-old in February 2009, then moved on to high school.

Permian High officials say suspicions about the player’s identity first arose when three Florida basketball coaches familiar with Montimere recognized him last month at an amateur tournament in Little Rock, Ark. The Odessa American reported that the coaches recognized him as Montimere, who graduated from Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale in 2007.

School district officials said they grew more suspicious after contacting U.S. immigration officials.

Police said they arrested Montimere after confronting him about his identity.

“I feel like I was hit by a ton of bricks,” district athletic director Leon Fuller said. “In my 50 years in education, I’ve never heard of anything like this.”

“This affected a lot of people. The whole school of Permian embraced that kid. He deceived us and played on everyone’s emotions,” Wright said.

Montimere was being held on $500 bond Tuesday night, according to jail records. Jail officials said no attorney was listed for Montimere.

If convicted of the misdemeanor, Montimere could face up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.

The revelation means Permian likely will have to forfeit the 2009 basketball season in which the 6-foot-5 player known as Jerry Joseph led the team to District 2-5A state playoffs and earned newcomer of the year accolades.

“I feel sick, but now that we’ve gotten the truth we can move on from here,” said Permian principal Roy Garcia.

Permian High School’s football program and the community support for it inspired the book “Friday Night Lights.”
 
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How many of us have said "If I could go back to the age of _________ knowing what I know now."
This dude did it for real.:lmao:
 

WHo the hell wants to go back to HIGH SCHOOL???? This may be the DUMBEST person in the US as of now. I hope he wasnt fuggin none of them high school girls.
 
DAHILL said:
I hope he wasnt fuggin none of them high school girls.
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I dont know if that fool in Texas did, but there was another one in Arizona that did. Maybe that's there reason for wanting to go back to high school :shame:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2009/11/for_about_four_months_yuma.php
For about four months, Yuma resident Anthony Avalos was your typical high school student. He went to class, chased some tail, and played basketball. So, when Yuma Union High School District officials found out that Avalos was actually a 22-year-old man, not a 17- or 18-year-old high school senior, it goes without saying they felt a little duped. Oh, and the underage high school chick he admitted to police he had sex with while claiming to be a student himself -- she can't be all that thrilled either.
 
May 11, 2010

BUSTED: HS Hoops player found to be 22 years old


For two weeks, Guerdwich Montimere told everyone at Permian High in Odessa, Texas, that the allegations were false - that he really was 16-year-old sophomore basketball star and Haitian orphan Jerry Joseph.

He said don't believe the rumors that he was much older, that he really was a youngster when he averaged more than 20 points over the last nine games of the season on the way to being named the District 2-5A Newcomer of the Year.

link... http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1083689
 
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