Montimere registers as sex offender in Texas
by Jon Vanderlaan
From the Odessa American
From the hardwood floor to the hill country, it appears the man formerly known as Jerry Joseph has found a home.
Guerdwich Montimere, 25, registered May 16 for the first time as a sex offender in Hays County. He is living in Kyle, a fast-growing town in Central Texas.
Montimere was convicted in 2011 on two counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of tampering with government records after it was discovered the then-22-year-old man posed as a teenaged Haitian orphan to play basketball. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
He first enrolled at Nimitz Junior High in January 2009 before becoming a standout basketball player at Permian.
Then in April 2010 at an offseason tournament, he was spotted by former coaches and teammates, and his story shortly thereafter unraveled.
Head coach Danny Wright of the Permian boys basketball team took Montimere into his house as he often did with students who had nowhere to go, and the Wrights were among the first to prove Montimere wasn’t who he said he was after going through his belongings and finding different sets of passports.
Montimere, listed at 6 feet 5 inches and 209 pounds on the Texas Department of Public Safety sex offender registry, is required to register for life every quarter.
The man listed his address as 400 Crystal Meadow Drive in Kyle, and also listed that address as his work address with John Kimbro.
A property search with the Hays County Central Appraisal District shows that the property is listed as farm and ranch land.
According to a previous Odessa American story, Kimbro was an AAU coach in Buda where Montimere tried the same con before playing for Permian.
The address is located within a short walking distance of Barton Middle School in Hays Consolidated ISD.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety website, the sex offenders registration program itself does not prohibit sex offenders from living in areas where children congregate.
Any regulation restricting movement of sex offenders is by probation and parole laws, as well as local ordinances.
Because Montimere is not on probation or parole, as he has completed his sentence, the only law that would prevent him from living near a school would be a local ordinance.
A search of the city’s code online showed no mention of an ordinance regarding sex offenders. City officials did not return messages for comment.
Kyle’s population was about 5,000 people in 2000 and grew to more than 28,000 people in 2010.
