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City of Oregon v. DeCastro

On November 23rd, 2022, a complaint was lodged against Jose DeCastro. This resulted in charges of Telecommunications Harassment being filed against Mr. Decastro by the City of Oregon Police Department. He was to be held on a of $2500 if he returned and arrested.

According to the article by Jim Finch from Really Cool News over atReallyCoolSite.org:

The charges stem from a November 2022 incident where Kate Peter and DeCastro were in the side chat for a fundraiser in order to raise bail money for YouTuber Broken System Broken Trust.

Peter offered enough money on behalf of the Masshole Troll Mafia to meet the goal for the bail in exchange for a mod timing out DeCastro. Great Lakes Audits complied with the request, triggering DeCastro.

DeCastro allegedly confronted Great Lakes Audit via direct messages and continued to make threats after Great Lakes Audits asked for no more communication between the two.

Great Lakes Audit went to the police and made a police report, resulting in the warrant that was issued but never carried out since 2022. The charges were listed as “Telecommunications Harassment Knowingly Make Call to Harass or Abuse” and bond was set at $2,500.00.

The warrant has been alive but inactive since then, as DeCastro had not returned to Ohio and Oregon, Ohio, police were not going to extradite the YouTuber.

In September of 2023 Great Lakes Audit made a deal with DeCastro to drop the charges against him in exchange for DeCastro doing a fundraiser for Great Lakes Audit’s on-going legal expenses.

The planned fundraiser never materialized and while Great Lakes Audit claimed that he was going to have the charges against DeCastro lifted, he either never did or he did, and the warrant was never lifted.

It was officially lifted on June 11, 2024, when it was ordered withdrawn, and the case was dismissed without cost. No reason was given for the dismissal of the case.

Due to the unique nature of this case, we are not including it in our DeCastro Scorecard totals.

Ohio Supreme Court - Unauthorized Practice of Law

  • Case Number: C2-0693U
  • Source: Document Sender or Recipient
  • Source: Supreme Court of Ohio - Disciplinary Counsel

In August of 2022, a grievance was filed with the Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court after Mr. DeCastro published a video on his 'Delete Lawz' YouTube channel where he was drafting what was reported to be a power of attorney and instructing another to sign it. While the Disciplinary Counsel agreed he likely engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, they believed they would not be able to obtain service on Mr. DeCastro and it would be "exceeding unlikely" he would respond or appear as evidenced by his evasion of the warrant for his arrest. They elected to not take further action.

They conclude the letter stating "Should we become aware of additional information regarding Mr. DeCastro's activities that might constitute the unauthorized practice of law or if Mr. Decastro returns to Ohio we will consider reopening our investigation."

DeCastro v. Ironton Police Department, WOWK TV et al

Jose Maria DeCastro filed a civil action against the Ironton Police Department, WOWK TV, Andi Bernhardt, Bailey Brautigan, and Bob Schaper. Numerous motions to dismiss were submitted and service was not made on a number of parties. On July 27th, 2022 the case appears to have been DISMISSED (with PREJUDICE) For Failure to Prosecute.

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City of Ironton v. DeCastro

As of August 28, 2024, there is still an ACTIVE WARRANT in Ohio for this case according to the Court's website.

Charges were filed by the City of Ironton after Jose Maria DeCastro refused to leave a city building after closing hours, claiming his unpermitted 'training class' was now a 'protest'. After a court date was set regarding a possible violation of conditional release which Mr. DeCastro claimed was a 'set up,' Mr. DeCastro left town and a bench warrant was issued when he failed to appear.

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