Joshua Garlathy dreamed of acting alongside Jennifer Aniston, but that dream ultimately became his demise. One day, Garlathy was relaxing on the beaches of Hawaii, but he found himself in a Pennsylvania courtroom Tuesday morning after a bizarre series of events, and he never even got to meet his idol.
Garlathy has never been known as a responsible type of man; he seems to fly by the seat of his pants and not worry about consequences. He fathered a girl in Pennsylvania with former girlfriend Beth Ann Holderman, but he fled the scene when he was expected to take on responsibility for his child. He went to Canada and fathered two more kids, and, of course, he had to take off then as well.
Since then, Joshua has been traveling the country, occasionally baking cookies or picking up musician gigs to get him by. Eventually, he ended up in Hawaii. Although it sounds like he was leading the easy life, he was out of work and lonely enough to look for babes on the internet who were as "420 friendly" as himself.
His prolific internet activities eventually came to his ex-girlfriend Beth Ann Holderman's attention, and she wanted the $32,803 of back child support he owed her. "I said, 'This is absurd,'" Holderman said of the aging musician with a bad case of the Peter Pan syndrome. "He owes and here he is smoking doobies on a beach somewhere."
Holderman decided enough was enough and enlisted the help of bounty hunter Scott Bernstein to get her money and bring the deadbeat dad to justice. Bernstein, who is working on a reality TV series about his work, hatched a quirky scheme to bring Garlathy to him.
Bernstein simply called Garlathy up and offered the delinquent dad a role in a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and sent Garlathy a plane ticket to Pennsylvania. It's not clear why Garlathy believed the impossible story, but perhaps he was a little too impaired by Mary Jane to recognize how ridiculous the whole thing sounded. Joshua Garlathy didn't hesitate to pack his bags and jump on the plane.
When he deboarded the plane in Pennsylvania, a film crew was waiting. The footage of Scott Bernstein putting the scruffy unemployed musician with dreams of stardom in handcuffs was priceless.
The trip carried an even heavier price for Joshua Garlathy. He went in front of the judge with no real defense for his actions and was ordered to pay off his delinquent child support and also reimburse Beth Ann Holderman for the $2,912 plane fare that brought him to justice.
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Comments: 10
My father was contacted through his facebook about a movie plot where he would play a character called Dirty Nick. (He does not have an obsession with Jennifer Aniston like this article seems to be playing up, he just wanted the chance of being a part of a high profile movie. Wouldn't you?) Most high profile movie companies will pay for your ticket which is exactly what *we* did. When he arrived at the airport he was then detained. He sat in jail for a little over a month while both the civil and the criminal sides of our benchwarrents were figured out. He originally got 6 months in jail on the civil side but he paid the $10,000 bail towards that so he no longer has to do the 6 months in jail. On the criminal side, he plead guilty to the willful failure to pay and has 90 days of probation which he will serve in Vermont where his family resides.
Elane, if he had jail time he would have been able to get out on work release but there is no jail time any more so he will just do the 90 days probation which requires a job and he will not be working for his father since his father has retired from being a minister about 10 years ago if not longer.
Donald, he is required by the courts to follow through with the 90 days probation where he will be spot checked as well as drug tested. He does not find jail 'secure', I can assure you that he felt more secure on a beach in Hawaii. My mother was not able to see him arrested at the airport because she was at home trying to contact all the airport security people since we did not know he was coming into PA till the day of.
Nippy, he is not dead. I think they were trying to say that his days of running are dead, not that he himself is dead.
For those that are still confused on what occurred, you are welcome to contact me here or on my facebook.
~Sahrin Holderman (the daughter)