Convicted Sex Offender Posed as Astros Recruit to Scam Family, Cops Say

A registered sex offender in Virginia allegedly masqueraded as a hot prospect being wooed by the Houston Astros, persuading a local mother and daughter to give him money and a place to live, with the promise of $5.5 million once he signed his impending contract with the 2022 World Series champions.

Janike Dunbar Holt, who was convicted in 2018 of indecent liberties with a minor, at one point convinced the pair they were texting with legendary Astros skipper Dusty Baker, according to a Nov. 30 search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast.

But when federal agents reached out to team officials about Holt, whose extensive collection of prison-style tats includes roughly a dozen of them on his face, they said they had no idea who he was, the affidavit states. Furthermore, the Astros had definitely “not entered into any type of contractual relationship” with the 27-year-old fugitive, it says.

Read more at The Daily Beast.