Guerdwich Montimere, you’ve been busted. The 22-year-old who led Permian High School to the state playoffs last season in basketball was posing as a 16-year-old named Jerry Joseph. He enrolled at Permian for the 2009-10 school year. If that’s not bad enough, Montimere also presented himself as homeless, and was taken in by the school’s basketball coach, Danny Wright, last summer.

Police say that Montimere is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti. His cover was blown when he was recognized last month at an amateur tournament by Florida coaches as having been a star high school player in Fort Lauderdale a few years back.

Hold on a second. A star high school player? And you don’t think that anybody will ever figure out you’re not six years older than you claim to be?

Let’s go back to Danny Almonte. The phenom pitcher who led his Bronx team to a third-place finish in the 2001 Little League World Series was revealed to have actually been two years too old to play. The kid was really 14, not 12. It’s hard to blame someone of that age for that whole mess. After all, Almonte didn’t falsify his own birth certificate. (Well, if he did, that’s pretty impressive. Bust that’s beside the point.) He was also cleared afterward of any wrongdoing. Mr. Montimere is obviously not a child, and will be held responsible for actions. If convicted of the misdemeanor, he could face up to six months in jail.

Here’s another thing to look at. Put aside any questions of morality. If your goal is to deceive other people to enhance your athletic career, it makes much more sense for someone who doesn’t have much of a career to speak of to do so. Even after the suspicion surrounding his age began, Almonte still made it all the way through the Little League World Series before being caught. The artist formerly known as Jerry Joseph was outed after a few coaches recognized him. That’s all it took! Why? Because he played high school basketball at a high level a few years earlier!

In this day in age when kids in elementary school are being hounded by college programs, there isn’t much that slips through the cracks. Obviously, Montimere wasn’t highly recruited (thus the bright idea to go back and play high school ball again). Still, he was out there. People saw him play.

Guerdwich Montimere will be a forgotten man soon enough. His little story will go away and his fifteen minutes of fame, or infamy, will expire. Ah, if only he could’ve emulated the elder Almonte and started his career after he knew he could beat up on younger competition. Wait…The elder Almonte? That’s right- Danny Almonte, now 23 years of age, is older than Guerdwich Montimere. Can you believe that? No, really, can you?