When we last investigated the life of Jose “Chille” DeCastro, he was at a crossroads. Essentially homeless, evicted from his long-promised studio, sources of revenue drying up, his only legal help leaving him after DeCastro accidentally doxed him… but looking towards the new year with hope, resolution and a renewed sense of his place in the universe.
2023 was going to be Chille DeCastro’s year. He was going to be a source of light and love, he was going to change people’s lives with his fasting plan, he was going to make a real difference and real change. His goal was going to lead him down the path of governorship of a major state and he was going to change the very justice system that he felt has corrupted the great United States.
Until he found the road too steep for his borrowed van, essentially giving up on the first day, turning the van around and deciding to go back to the road that led him to poverty, grifting and misery in the first place.
The first day of the year did indeed bring change into the life of Jose DeCastro. He held a livestream to support Jacquline “Laney” Hudson, a 13-year-old girl who was killed in a car accident involving an off-duty police officer. During his live stream, he managed to raise about $800 for the family’s gofundme towards Laney’s funeral. It was a great way to start the year as he showed he could have a positive impact upon the community.
He then squashed all that good will by going live again, this time to promote his dangerous intermittent fasting program. Claiming that it could cure everything from high blood pressure to gout to cancer, he promised results to his followers that he could not back as he had no real program, scientific evidence or anything more than faith in his knowledge to show his fans.
The second day of the year saw problems forming with DeCastro and the family of Jacquline “Laney” Hudson. He went live again, this time in dramatic tones, attempting to use the subject as part of an uprising against the police. DeCastro urged “the children” of West Virginia to take to the streets in protest, confiscate video equipment from homeowners and businesses in the area where Hudson was killed and not to trust police officers. At one point going as far as to tell witness that they can’t trust the police in the area with their reporting and he should be considered the single source of truth for their reports.
DeCastro, in a heinous move, called Hudson’s mother during a candlelight vigil for her daughter to badger her about police corruption. Hudson’s mother hung up on him and DeCastro dropped all coverage of Hudson’s situation.
In the middle of the week, YouTube acknowledged DeCastro’s copyright lawsuit. Attorney Benjamin D. Margo from the lawsuit of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosatti, P.C., filed a waiver of service of summons with the Massachusetts court, acknowledging the lawsuit and giving a 60-day time table (starting on December 3, 2022), for YouTube to provide a reply or else face a default judgement.
By now, DeCastro had another new cause, this time he had heard of a case where the police had raided the hospital room of a cancer patient who was using marijuana to cope with the pain of his treatment. DeCastro went live with a video he had found of the alleged incident. DeCastro even called the police department in the case, promising to call back daily until he was able to talk to the chief of police and demand real change.
Alas, for DeCastro, the incident he so dramatically featured was from 2019; Police investigated Nolan Sousley, who was undergoing treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer in Missouri, for use of Marijuana at the hospital. Sousley filmed the police raid himself for his YouTube channel. Sousley died soon after and faced no criminal charges from the raid.
A confused DeCastro probably had heard of the case of Greg Bretz, a cancer patient in Hays, Kansas, who made national headlines in 2022 when he was charged with drug possession after police raided his hospital room. This had made national headlines in the last week of 2022 and apparently was the inspiration for DeCastro’s outrage. Bretz’s drug charges had been dropped by this point.
DeCastro, now showing signs of what some would consider mental impairment, live streamed on Thursday, January 05, 2023, this time explaining that he had been fasting for “22-26 hours a day” for the past five days. He made a rambling and sometimes incoherent statement about how fasting ate “cells” that were associated with cancer, gout, high blood pressure and diabetes and could even cure aging.
Friday, January 06, 2023, was probably the worst day of the week for DeCastro. He filed a confusing and disjointed reply to Kate Peter and Josh Abram’s individual motions to dismiss his charges in his federal copyright lawsuit. In his filing, he made it clear that he believed that he did not have to state actual charges or provide evidence against Peter or Abrams, as a general statement that he believed they did something wrong would do. He also doubled down on his demand for the use of the RICO statutes to prosecute Peter and Abrams as he alleged, they were in a criminal conspiracy to use his material he held the copyright for, again, without providing details of his allegations.
When DeCastro was scheduled to be in a Pierce County, Washington, court room for a hearing in Blue Bacon’s protection order case, DeCastro was auditing a police station in Henderson, Nevada. During the audit, DeCastro was verbally assaulted by a mother who was uncomfortable with DeCastro’s recording as it was near her 13-year-old daughter, who was providing a statement to police. Police separated the two and DeCastro used common auditing tactics to belittle and “educate” the police offers. Declaring himself an alpha male and the police were all “betas,” DeCastro left, reportedly after his chat alerted him that the police were now aware that there were outstanding warrants for his arrest in Ohio.
DeCastro returned to live streaming later that night. This time focusing on the case of Dion Rabouin, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained by police in Arizona in November. Rabouin had made headlines earlier in the day as the Journal demanded an investigation into his detainment. During this broadcast, Delete Lawz Clips, the associate of DeCastro who runs his secondary YouTube channel, denied that there was a hearing in the Blue Bacon case and that no protection order was granted, claiming that DeCastro had never been served and directing chat to “drop” the matter.
The first week of the year was not good for Jose “Chille” DeCastro. With more failures, bad behavior, apparent mental deterioration due to lack of nutrients, DeCastro has now left the family member’s house he was staying at. Armed with his bedroll, borrowed van and aged dog Charlie, we can only hope that his second week of 2023 is better than his first.
