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I always thought bullfighters were a little bit nuts, but they know exactly what they are getting into when they enter the ring.
For matador Christian Hernandez the sight of a 1000 pound bull charging after him was enough to make him lose his manhood, run out of the ring and hop over a wall drawing boos from the fans.
Matadors are required to sign contracts before entering the ring. They must read something like this "kill or be killed ______X sign here."
So after running out of the ring at Plaza Mexico, Hernandez ran right into a pair of handcuffs according to CBS News.
He was released after posting a fine.
Hernandez was gored by a bull several months ago. Sunday marked his return to the ring and he won't be back. He plans to retire.
"There are some things you must be aware of about yourself," the 22-year-old Mexican matador said in a television interview. "I didn't have the ability, I didn't have the balls, this is not my thing."
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A Texas high school basketball player turned out instead to be a 22 year old imposter.
Guerdwich Montimere, a 2007 graduate of Dillard High School in Ft Lauderdale,Florida made his way to Odessa,Texas where he fooled everyone by telling them he was a 16 year old Haitian orphan named Jerry Joseph.
The coach of the Odessa Permian basketball team, Danny Wright even allowed Montimere to stay in his home.
Wright says he and the rest of the basketball team are in shock.
"I guess he fooled all of us," Wright said. "Hurt is the best way to describe how I feel. I gave him all the opportunities in the world to come clean. I don't know why he did this."
Meanwhile a criminal investigation is already underway. Montimere has been areested and charged with presenting false identification to a peace officer, but that could be just the tip of the iceberg.
"A 22 year old being in our schools is very much a concern that's why this has been an ongoing investigation, that's why we have not dropped it that's why we were not going to let go until we had found the truth," said ECISD Police Lt. Mark Rowden.
Louis Vives and Cedric Smith, coached Montimere on their AAU team when he lived in Florida. They confronted him at a tournament in Arkansas last month.
"I was hoping I was wrong because he was one of our kids," Vives said. "He grew up in our system. He played with us and you don't want any of your kids to go in the wrong direction in any way. But what's right is right. He can't go around impersonating a 16-year-old kid. He can't go living his youth all over again."
After fingerprints from his original immigration papers came in and were a match, Montimere confessed to the deception.
"I knew it was a matter of time. The truth was going to come out. I'm just glad it's over." Smith said.
The Permian team went 16-13 this season including a loss in the bi-district round of the playoffs.
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A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a high school basketball star in West Texas was charged with sexual assault Friday after an underage girl reported having sex with him last summer when she thought he was a teenager, police said.
Guerdwich Montimer was arrested for the third time in four days, this time after a 16-year-old girl in Odessa told police and school district officials she had sex with him at a home in August when she thought he was 15-year-old Jerry Joseph, said Odessa police Cpl. Sherrie Carruth.
Officials said Montimer enrolled at a junior high school and later at Permian High School last year with a fake birth certificate from Haiti. Suspicions were raised recently after coaches at an amateur basketball tournament said they recognized Joseph as Montimer, a 2007 graduate of a Florida high school and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti.
Montimer was being held in jail Friday on a $50,000 bond, according to a court affidavit released Friday.
Montimer was originally arrested Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of failure to identify himself to a police officer, and school officials said he admitted that he wasn't Joseph. He was arrested again Thursday on a third-degree felony charge of tampering with a government document.
A jail official said Friday there was no information about whether Montimer had an attorney. The sexual assault charge, a second-degree felony, carries a sentence of two to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Based on information provided by the girl, investigators determined Montimer "intentionally and knowingly engaged in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old juvenile and portrayed himself to be 15 years old when he was actually 21 years of age," Carruth, the Odessa police official, said in a statement.
Permian High School made the state basketball playoffs with Joseph helping lead the way as a sophomore star. Questions arose after the season, and Joseph was initially cleared by immigration authorities and allowed to return to the school.
The investigation continued, and a fingerprint from a passport found in his room matched one taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after the allegations surfaced, according to an affidavit. School officials said Montimer confessed after he was confronted with the new evidence.
His last name has been widely reported as Montimere, including by The Associated Press, but an affidavit released Thursday had several references to official documentation with Montimer, the spelling used by Odessa police.
Source: Associated Press
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