As expected, Jose “Chille” DeCastro missed both deadlines imposed by Judge Daniel J. Albregts to respond to the motions to dismiss his refiled case against members of the police force in Ironton, Ohio, and the county of Lawrence, Ohio.
DeCastro had “two weeks” from the issuance of Judge Albregts’ individual orders to respond to the motions. That would have put the first deadline on Wednesday, April 8, 2025, with the second deadline on Thursday, April 9, 2025.
As of midday on the West coast on Friday, April 11, 2025, no filings have been made by DeCastro to answer either motion as to why the lawsuit shouldn’t be out and out dismissed or moved back to Ohio, as none of the participants actually live in Nevada.
DeCastro seemed unphased during a Thursday livestream on his own YouTube channel. He did not mention the on-going litigation but instead focused on the evils of the United States Supreme Court’s Terry vs. Ohio decision.
Strangely, DeCastro also provided no updates during the stream to any of the projects he is working on, including his Constitution Headquarters board game. With 19 days until his “end of this month” deadline to release the game, DeCastro showed no urgency in finishing his product.
Standing in front of the 30-40-foot-tall wall of DeCastro’s version of history, which he built in the former furniture store he’s currently renting as studio space, DeCastro ignored calls for updates from his side chat to go into his familiar Terry vs. Ohio rant.
DeCastro did not update his other projects, including his “get people out of jail” website, his henchmen from the 1960’s “Batman” TV show-esque hoodies, nor his “legal document” that he’s planning to distribute to allow anyone to sleep in their cars without police interference.
The only place that DeCastro has, in fact, been active on Twitter/X, where he has been posting misogynist rants about women in power. In a recent post, DeCastro said, “Gross. There’s nothing more authoritarian than a woman in power. It’s disgusting. We see it in the police. Women cops are physically aggressive, and hostile and then rely on men to come in and beat up the person who they picked a fight with. This is disgusting… as a gen-xer we all said that we were going to end this bullshit war on drugs hen our generation got to power. Look. Ook. More of the same bullshit.”
DeCastro’s lack of urgency was a hallmark of his handling of both his Ironton based lawsuits. In the initial lawsuit, filed in April of 2022, DeCastro often refused to meet deadlines while gloating that he had every intention to delay the lawsuit as much as possible.
The original case was dismissed at one point when DeCastro blew a deadline for a motion to show cause after the defendants complained about the multiple times DeCastro ignored deadlines. It was reinstated days later, when DeCastro filed a motion for an extension to his deadline to answer the show cause order.
In the current lawsuit, DeCastro filed a copy of the original lawsuit in Nevada in March of 2024 as he was then living in Nevada, and the original lawsuit was in the appeals process after being dismissed in the fall of 2023.
DeCastro went to jail for unrelated charges in Nevada before he could serve anyone in the lawsuit, and only replied to the court when the court indicated that it would vacate the lawsuit last summer for lack of service. He then was granted an extension until mid-October of 2024 to serve the defendants.
The YouTuber failed to serve anyone, and when the Court again gave him a deadline to show proof that he had served the defendants or have the case dismissed, he showed disputed proof of service with a March 2025 service date, instead of service by the original extended deadline.
It is unclear how long the court will wait for DeCastro to reply to its orders but to long time observers, it seems that DeCastro not only has refiled the same lawsuit, he has also resorted to the childish games he played in the first version of the lawsuit.
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