Jose “Chille” DeCastro was in a familiar place this morning as his attorney, Michael Mee, filed for a last-minute extension to file service in a long-forgotten lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metro Police Force while he also faced unfamiliarity as a group of defendants in another forgotten lawsuit protested his lack of service with a new filing.
In the four years that DeCastro has been filing federal civil cases against various defendants he has established three patterns.
First, he waits until the last possible day before the statute of limitations runs out to file his cases and second, he then all but forgets about the case, taking months and sometimes over a year to serve those he’s suing. Finally, when he does attempt service, something bizarre or impossible to believe happens and results in further delay.
An early example of DeCastro’s bumbling with service came not in federal, but California Superior court where DeCastro sued Kate Peter, Michael “Blue Bacon” Pierattini, Daniel Clement and Team Skeptic. DeCastro unsuccessfully attempted service on Peter, Skeptic and Pierattini while successfully serving Clement.
This case spawned the infamous incident where DeCastro would claim that a short blonde haired and blue-eyed man his processor attempted to serve was the tall black haired Pierattini. It also featured an incident where DeCastro’s server attempted to serve Peter’s teenage son, who had said that his mother had moved.
Pierattini would later acknowledge the lawsuit on his own, DeCastro would get a clerk’s default against Peter that went nowhere and would later fail to serve Clement with his first amended complaint. He never served Skeptic, who had left the country for part of that year.
In DeCastro’s most recent court cases, he’s had several delays in the past two months due to lack of service and various excuses for his lack of activity that were blamed on his attorney, Michael Mee.
Mee is a flat rate attorney from Las Vegas who unsuccessfully defended DeCastro against charges of interfering in a crime scene and obstructing an officer in 2024. DeCastro would be later acquitted of those charges on appeal, a case handled by a higher priced attorney.
As DeCastro has gone from rags to riches and allegedly back to rags in recent days, he hired Mee to take over his various Las Vegas based lawsuits. That decision has apparently proved semi-consequential for DeCastro since Mee failed to file appearances in two of the delayed cases and used what has been a now familiar excuse for the third.
Mee has been having problems with the HVAC system in his former office, which has resulted in a backlog of cases as he relocated to a new office. He used this as an excuse to delay DeCastro’s opening brief in his appeal of a loss to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department from February of this year.
He will likely be successful in getting a delay in the Thursday filing for a separate case with the same excuse.
Mee’s current filing involves a case that DeCastro filed in February of this year. It was filed on the last day before the two-year statute of limitations ran out from the Valentine’s Day arrest of DeCastro in 2024.
The charges were not picked up by the Las Vegas District Attorney’s office and DeCastro would eventually sue under First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment grounds.
He let the lawsuit sit until the court issued an intent to dismiss for lack of service in May. DeCastro responded quickly, asking for a delay, which was granted by the court in June.
Mee came on in July and immediately filed another motion to extend, stating that DeCastro’s process server tried to serve all the defendants as a group and was denied. That motion was granted in September.
Due to the HVAC excuse, Mee did nothing for months, until issuing individual proposed summons for the defendants on October 14, one day before the previous deadline. Service was attempted on the 15th, but the process server allegedly arrived too late in the day to serve the defendants.
When DeCastro’s motion to delay is granted, Mee will roughly have until the middle of November to file the next motion to delay for DeCastro.
Perhaps knowing DeCastro’s pattern of endlessly delaying his lawsuits, defendants in his lawsuit against the city of Duncan, Oklahoma, came together and filed a special appearance in that lawsuit to file a motion to dismiss without officially acknowledging service of the lawsuit.
The opening remarks of their motion to dismiss reads:
Defendants City of Duncan, Oklahoma, Connor Newman, William Fitzhugh, and Brian Attaway (collectively “Moving Defendants”), in their individual and official capacities, as appropriate, appearing specially and for the limited purpose of contesting the sufficiency of service of process and this Court’s personal jurisdiction over them, and without waiving any defense, objection, or immunity, respectfully move the Court to dismiss Plaintiff Jose Maria DeCastro’s First Amended Complaint (Doc. 16) as to each of them under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 4(m), 12(b)(2), and 12(b)(5). Plaintiff has never served any of the Moving Defendants with a summons and a copy of the complaint, and the Court-extended deadline to do so expired on June 15, 2026. (Doc. 19 at 2.)
DeCastro livestreamed himself in September of 2025 pulling on the handles of three patrol vehicles in the parking lot of the Duncan police station in order to obtain access to long rifles that he could see within the vehicles.
Three warrants, one for each attempt, would be issued for DeCastro in December of 2025, charging DeCastro with three counts of molesting a police vehicle.
The response was almost immediate with DeCastro filing suit in California to attempt to set aside his charges in Oklahoma until his federal lawsuit against Duncan was heard. That case was eventually moved to an Oklahoma court in January of 2026.
In March, DeCastro filed for a motion to extend time to serve the defendants in the case, but two weeks later filed an amended complaint against all of the defendants, adding Dan Jocobsma to the lawsuit.
He also asked for and was granted more time to serve the defendants in April with a deadline that service must be completed by June 15, 2026. That notice to DeCastro was returned as undeliverable via United States postal service.
Defendant Suzannahe Smith’s attorneys filed appearances in the lawsuit later that month and filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Smith. There has been a back and forth over the DeCastro filing a sur-reply to the motion to dismiss, with DeCastro’s motion for permission to update that sur-reply as the last activity in the case until the defendants’ motion on Thursday.
In that motion, the defendants make it clear that dismissing the case against them will not damage DeCastro, as he has another year in the statute of limitations to refile, and it will at least temporarily allow the defendants out of legal limbo.
DeCastro has yet to reply to the motion.
As we were about to go to press, DeCastro made the news again with another delay in an on-going case.
The diminutive YouTuber asked for and was granted a delay until November 16, 2026, to file a second amended complaint in his current lawsuit against Kate Peter, Josh “Accountability for All” Abrams and “Lackluster” Dale Hiller.
That lawsuit was previously partially dismissed for jurisdictional issues as the Judge ruled that DeCastro had not shown that he had suffered $75,000.00 in damages from the livestreams behind the lawsuit. Damages of $75,000.00 is the minimum threshold for a case to be brought in federal court.
The inventor of the Jock Sock was given 21 days to file an amended complaint to cure deficiencies in the lawsuit or face dismissal of the lawsuit without prejudice.
DeCastro waited until the day that the response was due to file an extension, citing hardship of being a pro se litigant for his need for delay. The recently demonetized YouTuber also promised that his lack of service of defendant Kate Peter, who DeCastro had previously obtained permission to serve via e-mail, will also be cured in his response in November.
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