Jose “Chille” DeCastro was sentenced to 180 days in jail earlier this month for obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest.
Katelyn Newberg
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
When it came time for Jose “Chille” DeCastro to be sentenced for interfering with a police traffic stop, the prosecutor wanted him to be placed on probation. But Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman had other ideas.
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