If "Friday Night Lights", "The Blind Side", "Catch Me If You Can" and "The Ringer" mated, they would produce something like the shocking story of Guerdwich Montimere, the 22-year-old former Florida high-school basketball standout who posed as a fictional 16-year-old named Jerry Joseph in order to play basketball at a Texas school.

After reading the details, we wanted to talk to classmates from both schools to try to understand how the naturalized citizen from Haiti managed to get away with such a bizarre crime.

So we did our best Anderson Cooper impression and attempted to use Facebook to turn Montimere's classmates into i-Reporters. We messaged about a dozen students from each school, eventually finding Kyle, a fellow 2007 Dillard High School graduate.

"He seemed very sociable and showed no signs of anti-social behavior," Kyle told us. "Based on what I know he got along with classmates and teammates, too."

It only got less enlightening from there.


"Yeah I knew of him," Nathaniel told us. "I use to be a basketball announcer at Dillard the times he was playing, but far as his personal life, I don't know about him."

One Fort Lauderdale student, Ashley, said she would ask around, but we never heard back from her, so we turned our attention to informants from Montimere's new school, Permian.

Christa from Permian kindly responded to our inquiry but said she didn't know him. Another Permian graduate, Ali, told us, "I had no knowledge of Jerry until just this year when I heard our basketball team was so good. I am very disappointed that someone would allow themselves to do such a thing and even jeopardize my high school."

The only truly enlightening comment we could obtain about a 22-year-old man who used a falsified birth certificate to pose as a 16-year-old sophomore, fooled an entire high school and his coach who let him move into his home, was this, from Brandon at Permian:

"My only comment is that if he wanted larger scholarship offers he could have chosen a better basketball school than Permian."

If anyone out there has any information about this guy, let us know. Or at least tell "AC 360."

Brett Smiley is an Asylum contributor who will not use Facebook to gather information about a subject again.