In what should have been a totally expected move considering his actions in other legal activity, Monday’s of Jose “Chille” DeCastro for a single count of walking in the street when the sidewalk was available was delayed until January 2027 for undisclosed reasons according to reporting by the Our Nevada Judges YouTube channel.
The diminutive YouTuber was arrested in July of 2026 during Nevada’s monthly “First Friday” event when he walked up to police activity in the center of a street that had been closed to vehicle traffic due to the event.
A law enforcement vehicle approached DeCastro from behind and ordered the YouTuber to get out of the street. When DeCastro began to argue against the order, he was immediately taken into custody and held overnight by authorities.
The failed Power Ranger would be booked for the offense along with failure to give his social security number to police as part of the booking process. Prosecutors declined to pursue the second charge as the case moved forward.
DeCastro, represented by attorney Michael Mee, insisted on going to trial in September after reportedly being offered a deferment program for the charge that would have exchanged pleading guilty to having the guilty plea stricken from his record should he stay out of trouble.
In livestreams since the arrest and in a video aired before Our Nevada Judges’ planned coverage of DeCastro’s Monday trial, the social media influencer stated that it was not illegal to walk in the road when the police had blocked the road from vehicle traffic.
He also pledged that he would be suing the officers involved in the arrest and that he would be returning to the First Friday event following his hearing to apparently challenge the law. DeCastro ultimately decided to skip returning to the event and has yet to file a lawsuit over the arrest.
The First Friday event itself has been shut down since October of 2026 following a fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old during October’s event.
No reason was given for the delay by Our Nevada Judges, who had a camera crew in the courtroom and had prepared to broadcast his trial when it announced the delay, with the hearing now to be held on January 19, 2026, at 2PM local time.
For those familiar with the Coded Friends creator’s legal history are familiar with delays related to his legal matters. In fact, on Monday there were two filings in cases that have been significantly delayed by DeCastro’s failure to serve defendants in those lawsuits in a timely manner.
Starting with his lawsuit against the city of Duncan, Oklahoma.
This is the case were DeCastro was charged with, but not officially arrested for, charges of molesting police vehicles in September of 2025. DeCastro had livestreamed himself pulling on the door handles of three police vehicles with the intent to see if he could access what he called unsecured long rifles within the vehicles.
Months after he was unsuccessful in doing so, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was charged with three misdemeanors for his alleged actions.
DeCastro sued in California over the circumstances of the arrest, that case was eventually moved to Oklahoma and DeCastro only completed service of one defendant in the 10 months since the case was moved.
Last month the defendants who DeCastro has not served filed a motion to dismiss the case due to lack of service. DeCastro had previously missed a deadline set by the court to serve the defendants after seeking and being granted an extension of time to serve the defendants.
DeCastro then filed his own request for an extension of time for service, claiming he was never told that he was granted the original extension. The defendants in the case have disputed DeCastro’s claims and Monday’s filing again asked the Judge in the lawsuit to grant DeCastro a new extension to serve said defendants.
Also of note on Monday was a filing in his lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. Specifically, the lawsuit surrounding his Valentine’s Day arrest in 2024.
After finally serving the defendants in the lawsuit, the defendants responded with a partial motion to dismiss on Monday.
The defendants are seeking to have his state-law claims for assault and battery and false arrest and false imprisonment dismissed for failing to comply with NRS 41.036(2). They are also seeking to have his Monell claim dismissed for failure to state a claim.
Their filing stated:
Plaintiff Jose DeCastro (“DeCastro”), a self-described “police accountability journalist” and operator of the “Delete Lawz” YouTube channel, sues LVMPD and four of its officers over his February 14, 2024 arrest at the scene of a fatal traffic accident. ECF No. 2 at ¶¶ 2, 12, 20, 22. By DeCastro’s own account, he entered an area officers were still controlling, was repeatedly directed by officers to move away, was twice told by the commanding sergeant on scene he was being given a lawful order to keep walking and was arrested after he insisted on his right to remain. Id. at ¶¶ 21, 31–32, 41–42. DeCastro is no stranger to litigation against LVMPD. While still on scene, he told officers to “[p]ull up DeCastro versus LVMPD,” and announced, “[t]his will be my third lawsuit.” Id. at ¶ 36.
This Motion is narrow. Accepting DeCastro’s well-pled factual allegations as true for purposes of this Motion only, LVMPD Defendants seek dismissal of two categories of claims. First, DeCastro’s Nevada state-law claims for assault and battery (Count VI) and false arrest and false imprisonment (Count VII) must be dismissed with prejudice because DeCastro never presented his claim to LVMPD within two years of the incident, as NRS 41.036(2) mandates. Second, DeCastro’s Monell claim against LVMPD (Count V) must be dismissed because the Complaint offers nothing more than a boilerplate list of purported “policies” that simply re-describe DeCastro’s own arrest, a single prior arrest by a different officer under different circumstances, and an “upon information and belief” assertion of a pattern. None of this satisfies Twombly and Iqbal.
The defendants also responded to DeCastro’s complaint in the lawsuit, offering twenty-three affirmative defenses to DeCastro’s allegations.
Craig R. Anderson of Marquis Aurbach, who successfully defended the LVMPD at trial in another lawsuit by DeCastro in February, is representing the defense.
Thank you to PDocs of the Public Documents of Jose DeCastro for providing the documents used in this article.
In other DeCastro related news, the YouTuber released a 37-second video Monday night entitled “Stay with me, Team DLZ. We don’t stop!”
In the video, DeCastro announced that he was in the process of editing version 402 of his Governors’ Handbook and was using “four different fact” checkers that included bots from Grok, Claude and ChatGPT. He asked his fans to stay with him and that he was ‘almost done.”
The inventor of the Jock Sock had previously announced that he was suing YouTube over its recent decision to demonetize his primary channel on the platform. He then declared that the lawsuit would happen after he launched his new “Reconstitution” channel, he finished his board game, and he launched his Governors’ Handbook.
DeCastro’s sole remaining crowdsourcing campaign, a GoFundMe for Heather Chandler, was silent again for Tuesday.
David “Dr. Dave” Coulter’s Standing with Doctor Dave in His Legal Fight GoFundMe campaign placed first for the day with $120.00 in new donations.
Second place went to a tie between Roy “Pigs Under Pressure” Tripoloni’s GoFundMe campaign for James “James Freeman” Springer and Lane Myers’ GiveSendGo page, which both took in $50.00 for the day.
No other campaigns that we follow saw new donations for Tuesday.
This is a breaking news story.
