Criminal history
Meanwhile, new details about Taylor's past emerged Thursday.

In early 1999, she pleaded guilty to separate charges involving writing bad checks in two St. Louis-area counties.

The first case was in suburban St. Charles County. Taylor had deposited at least $600 in bogus checks with a Mercantile bank, said St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Jack Banas.She then went to an ATM and withdrew the funds.

"She retrieved it before they found it was forged," Banas said.

Taylor pleaded guilty to four felony counts, including forgery and stealing, and was put on five years' probation. She used the name Crystal Ann Taylor in court, with an address in St. Louis. But she went under aliases as well, Banas said.

During the same time, she was prosecuted for a similar felony in neighboring St. Louis County. She again pleaded guilty and received probation.

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Records in the St. Louis County case list her date of birth as 1970, rather than 1971, and her address as Friendswood in suburban Houston. A Crystal Ann Taylor using the same details pleaded guilty to a 1994 felony forgery charge and was put under house arrest, records show.

Shirley Taylor said she was not aware of her daughter using aliases and said the Missouri offenses were old and a product of her youth.

"She was young," the mother said. "She really got herself together, [and she is] just a whole different person."

By 2000, she was reporting to a probation officer in Texas who supervised her on behalf of Missouri authorities. She picked up another charge involving bad checks, Banas said, putting her back on his office's radar. He said he was unclear where the arrest happened.

Taylor also failed to report to her probation officer after the arrest, as required as part of her sentence. The officer notified Missouri prosecutors, who then sought to revoke her probation and obtained an arrest warrant months later in 2001. She could face prison time if the judge decides to revoke her probation, Banas said.

"That was the last we heard of her until now," Banas said.

Meanwhile, Taylor was cited in Harris County for failing to identify herself to a police officer. She pleaded guilty in the fall of 2000 and was fined $200.

That was merely the first of her legal issues in Texas.


Texas run-ins
Authorities say Joel Smith, a dentist in Beaumont, met Taylor when she came in for some dental work in 2004. Smith said the woman claimed to be a student at a local school, Lamar University. She presented a driver's license with the name Christian Travino. She also presented a credit card.

"When we first ran it, it declined," Smith said.

The dental office had her call the bank, and she was able to straighten it out.

"We had quite a few conversations with MBNA about this, and they said, 'Oh, that's a mix-up. It was just the amount we were putting through,' " Smith said.

The woman was a patient there for a couple of weeks, racking up about $10,000 worth of charges, Smith said. Then the credit card company denied payment.

"We went for four or five months trying to collect the bill," Smith said, "writing letters, that type of thing, and then she sort of disappeared."

That's when the dentist went to police, providing them with a photo.

Beaumont police Officer Randy Stevens took the case. When he and other officers saw the photo, they recognized the woman as the suspect in an investigation conducted a year earlier.

"She was kiting checks, she had stolen a guy's credit card, and what we found was that she was a waitress at a local men's club," Stevens said. Shirley Taylor said she would be surprised if her daughter was an exotic dancer and said her daughter did secretarial work.

The Beaumont investigators obtained her application and other documents she had submitted to serve as an employee for a sexually oriented business. Stevens said when they returned to the station, they made a discovery.

"The driver's license was fake, the Social Security number, the names, all that was fake," Stevens said.

Officers went to an address and found a boyfriend she had been living with, he said.

"All the information he knew was fake," Stevens said. Either that or the boyfriend was lying – the investigators couldn't tell.

"It was like she didn't even exist," Stevens said. "So with that case, it never went anywhere."

But after the dentist came forward, the investigators got all the information they had collected and sent it to a regional crime information center in Nashville, Tenn., for help. The center found Taylor's arrest in Missouri.

"They sent me a mug shot of the girl," Stevens says. "I could tell from that photo that it was all the same person."


Seen at games
In 2006, after police were still unable to locate her, Jefferson County authorities indicted Taylor on a charge of theft of service in the dentist's case.

"I know that we're probably not going see any of the money," Smith says. "But I'm just glad maybe she'll be off the streets."

Stevens says he guesses other victims will come forward once they see Taylor's photo in the newspapers.

"I think there's going to be other charges on this since it came out on the news," the officer says. "She's going to be in jail for a while, I think."

Mavericks sources confirm that Taylor has been a presence at games for most of this season, Nowitzki's 11th in the NBA.

How much, if any, distraction this will cause remains to be seen. During last year's first-round playoff loss to New Orleans, teammate Josh Howard publicly discussed his marijuana use and attended a birthday party against then-coach Avery Johnson's orders.

"Obviously, very disappointing what happened in the playoffs – bad timing," Nowitzki said at the time without mentioning Howard by name. "I think in the playoffs, it's really time to focus on basketball and not let distractions come up."

Nowitzki said then that he tried to keep the team together and playing hard, "but it wasn't good enough."

Obtained in a 1998 draft-night trade, Nowitzki arrived as a 19-year-old wunderkind and blossomed into the NBA's 2006 Most Valuable Player.

Shortly before leading Germany into last summer's Beijing Olympics, Nowitzki told a German publication that he had a girlfriend. He did not reveal her name, but the admission made national news in Germany.

Posted by CrushAlot:

Either this girl is the ultimate freak or Dirk is very naive.

Maybe she lets him do poo-sex or something else really depraved?

Or perhaps Dirk is not shallow, not about outer beauty? Nah, it must be something ultra-freaky! Something even Marv Albert can't get down with!

oohah