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00:00He came to your home and vandalized your property.
00:02I caught him knocking over my motorcycle.
00:05Really?
00:09This is Judy Justice.
00:11Now, why don't you tell me what you were doing in the garage?
00:14So that's not a garage. That's actually a carport.
00:17I don't care if it's an ice skating rink. I saw you throw down a bike.
00:39Brian Kovarek is suing his former friend, Jeremy DelBianco, for property damage and lost wages.
00:48Court come to order. All rise.
00:55Have a seat, please.
00:56Judge?
00:57Case 4091, Kovarek v. DelBianco.
01:00You're welcome.
01:01Mr. Kovarek, you and the defendant were friends, according to what I read,
01:04and your friendship surrounded your love for dirt biking.
01:08Correct.
01:09Those dirt bikes, are they electric or do they run on your own power?
01:12Funny you should ask. That's why we're here. He hates electric dirt bikes.
01:16I didn't ask. Do you ride?
01:18Now I have electric. He has gas.
01:20Is that how you met?
01:21Yeah, through a friend of a friend who was in this group who rode dirt bikes.
01:25According to what I read, sometime in 2023, what month was it that you went to Hawaii?
01:31September.
01:32And it was just the two of you, not anybody else.
01:34You rented an Airbnb.
01:36And when you rented the Airbnb, when you got there, there was one bedroom.
01:39And it was decided that one of you would get the bedroom and one of you would get the sofa
01:44in the living room.
01:45Who got the bedroom?
01:46I got the bedroom.
01:47The defendant, after a while, said, well, it's not fair. We sort of paid the same thing to come.
01:52I should get to sleep in the bedroom at least part of the time.
01:56And you had a falling out.
01:57And when you had a falling out, one of you left. Who left?
02:01I left.
02:02And you left the defendant there.
02:03Correct.
02:04And then I assume, based upon what I read, that you had no contact with the defendant after that because
02:10you were not on good terms for over a year.
02:13Correct.
02:14And the next time you saw him was on what date?
02:17August 7th, 2024.
02:19Now, the defendant does not deny that he went to your home on August 7th, 2024.
02:26He says he went to your home.
02:29I'll let him tell me what story he wants to tell me.
02:32But it is your claim in this case that he came to your home and vandalized your property.
02:37Correct.
02:37And you want him to compensate you for.
02:41Those are all lies, Your Honor.
02:42Just a...
02:43So that's what you want him to compensate you for, the property that you allege he...
02:48Correct.
02:49Destroyed when he came to your home on August 7th.
02:51Correct.
02:52Tell me what you observed on August 7th.
02:55Well, I saw him outside with a spray paint can and a folding knife about six inches.
03:02Miss, I want to take...
03:04I'm going to give you an opportunity to tell me your version of the story.
03:09But interrupting him is something that's annoying to me.
03:12Okay.
03:12Okay, and I assume you noticed that the first time I looked at you.
03:16Yes, Your Honor.
03:16So let's try to have a little bit of a memory.
03:18I also want you to think about this.
03:20And I don't know whether you know this or not.
03:22I noticed it right away because I don't have that monitor here all the time.
03:26It's only in the courtroom when there is a video.
03:29So I don't know what the video is going to show.
03:32But I would suggest that before you object too much, you know that there are cameras all over the place.
03:39I just know it.
03:40And it's perfect.
03:41That's all.
03:41Go.
03:42So yeah, I set up surveillance cameras and I caught him knocking over my motorcycle.
03:47You can clearly see him.
03:49And it starts after he knocks the first motorcycle over.
03:53So one is already knocked over.
03:54The second one is still up.
03:56He walks around.
03:57And this is...
03:58There was already a motorcycle on the ground.
04:00I'm sorry.
04:00The next time it happens, what I'm going to do is cut the case short, rule in his favor, and
04:08throw you out.
04:09Right?
04:10As you can see, he's kind of a hothead.
04:12He likes to interject.
04:13So...
04:14So...
04:14You don't have to help me with my job.
04:17Just tell me what you observed.
04:19Okay.
04:19So he...
04:20Just a sec.
04:21Are you observing this from watching the video or are you observing this with your eyes?
04:25Because I want you to be careful.
04:27The video I will see.
04:28Second story where I live in the second story.
04:30In the back of the house.
04:32And I can clearly see the whole street.
04:34And he's spray painting the name of his type of motorcycle on the driveway.
04:37Okay.
04:38Because he hates my motorcycle.
04:40Listen.
04:41Don't tell me why, because I asked you to tell me what you saw.
04:46Not what you saw after you watched the video.
04:49What you saw in real time on August 7th.
04:53Yeah.
04:54What did you see?
04:56The exact same person in the video.
04:57Same clothes, holding spray paint can and a blade about that big, which he slashed the tires with,
05:03and running down the hill away from my house.
05:05Really?
05:06Okay.
05:06So what you saw was not his face?
05:10I saw it from the side.
05:11At what point?
05:12When he was walking down the street away from my house.
05:15The driveway's here.
05:16Then my street goes down to the right.
05:18My truck was here.
05:19He slashed the two right side tires, and he was walking down the driveway, down the street to the right.
05:25Now, you acknowledge, Mr. Della Bianco, that you did not see the plaintiff for well over a year.
05:34And according to your answer, you went to his house unannounced on August 7th.
05:40And you went to his house unannounced on August 7th because you had loaned him at some point bike clips,
05:48which I assume are clips that you put around your ankles, your pants, so that they don't get into...
05:56What are they?
05:57What are bike clips?
05:58They're tie-down straps.
05:59They're used to mount the dirt bike to the vehicle or truck when transporting.
06:05They call them straps, tie-downs.
06:06So these hold your bike onto a car?
06:09Correct.
06:09And you didn't use your bike for a year?
06:12I'm off and on, but I've been really busy.
06:15I'm an electrician, so I haven't actually been riding as much as I'd like to.
06:19That's not what I asked you, so let's try to stick with the question that I asked you.
06:22Yes, Your Honor.
06:23Is what you're saying to me, you didn't ride your bike for a year?
06:26Your answer is no, because I won't believe that you didn't ride your bike for a year, right?
06:31Well, it's a little out of commission.
06:32I ride a little rough.
06:34I broke the levers, so yeah, I haven't been able to ride it.
06:37Okay, you broke the levers when?
06:42Back, let's say January of 2024.
06:45January of 2024, you broke the bike and haven't been able to use it?
06:48I still have.
06:50What?
06:50I had it fixed and I broke it again, so.
06:53Okay, so I'm going to start to enjoy this.
06:58Walking out.
06:59Oh, yeah, look at the other bike.
07:01One, two, three, four, five.
07:03Don't look for a thing.
07:04Don't look for a strap.
07:05Don't look for anything.
07:07Throw it down, and now out again.
07:09Explain that to me, sir.
07:10Can you explain it?
07:11The answer is you can't.
07:22Brian Kovarek claims his former friend, Jeremy Delbianco, owes for property damage after slashing his truck tires and tipping over
07:32his motorcycle.
07:34Now, it was broken in January of 2024, and you had it fixed when?
07:39I had that fixed in March.
07:42You're making it up as we're going along.
07:43I'm enjoying watching you squirm.
07:45Let's go.
07:45Yeah, about March.
07:47So you had it fixed in March, and you had it fixed at a place, or did you fix it
07:51yourself?
07:52I fixed it myself.
07:53And then you broke it again when?
07:57About May.
07:57And what happened to it in May?
07:59I went dirt biking with my friend, and I had a pretty serious accident where that bike kind of looped
08:08over and snapped it again.
08:10And currently, my bike's out of commission.
08:12And it's been out of commission ever since.
08:14We're now in December of 2024.
08:17Correct.
08:17So what I'd like to find out from you, sir, is these bike tie-ons clearly were at his house,
08:25or you thought that they were at his house, for a year.
08:28Your bike is out of commission.
08:29You really haven't used it for more than, according to you, a couple of months in a year because it's
08:36been broken.
08:37Correct, Your Honor.
08:37Right. So my question is, you wake up in the morning on August 7th, and you have this epiphany that
08:45you need the tie-downs for the bike so that you can tie it down to use it and travel
08:51with it.
08:52So I want to know what kind of an epiphany you had on August 7th that brought you to his
08:57house, because you acknowledge you were there.
08:59Correct, Your Honor.
09:00So I went, and I was asked if I wanted to go for a dirt bike ride with my friend.
09:06And I said, I would love to, but I have to get ready for it.
09:11And that's when I went to the...
09:13Your bike wasn't working, sir.
09:15You said your bike hasn't been working since May.
09:17Oh, it works. It just needed a clutch.
09:17No, no, no.
09:18You said your bike hasn't been working since May.
09:21Now it's December.
09:22It's still not working.
09:23So how are you going to go bike riding in August if it wasn't working?
09:26That's what you just told me.
09:28It's all here.
09:29This is my repository of everything that you said.
09:33May.
09:33Your bike's been out of commission since May.
09:36Correct.
09:36So what are we going to put your behind on when you went riding with your friend?
09:40Well, my dirt bike.
09:41I thought you said it was out of commission.
09:42No, I was going to have it repaired to go riding, but I had no strap to fix my bike,
09:48so I left.
09:48I haven't, I didn't get to go riding.
09:50I thought you said you fixed it yourself the first time.
09:51Yeah, but I never went riding, because I didn't have my strap.
09:54You mean you fixed your bike in March, but you didn't use it because you didn't have straps.
09:58Why didn't you go in March to get your straps?
10:01I just didn't have time, and just, I don't like to ride.
10:03You know that I absolutely believe nothing of what you just said to me.
10:06Okay.
10:07You understand that?
10:08Yes, Your Honor.
10:08And you understand that that's my job.
10:10Yes, Your Honor.
10:11Believing?
10:12Yes.
10:12Okay, now I'll see your video.
10:16That's you, right?
10:17Of course.
10:20One bike.
10:25Well, that's throwing down another bike.
10:27That's all the videoers?
10:29Just a second.
10:30Explain what I just saw to me.
10:31What I just saw was you throwing down one of his bikes.
10:34So that's not a garage.
10:35That's actually a carport.
10:36I don't care what it is.
10:37I don't care if it's an ice skating rink.
10:40I saw you throw down a bike.
10:41I leaned down a bike.
10:42Just a second.
10:43Why?
10:44So I see if I can get my strap.
10:46There was no strap there, and I left.
10:47No, no, no, no, no, no.
10:49Sir, you didn't even look for anything.
10:51You walked outside, and you said to myself,
10:53So I left one bike standing.
10:55Let's watch it again.
10:57Watch it carefully.
10:59Walking out.
11:00Oh, yeah, look at the other bike.
11:02One, two, three, four, five.
11:03Don't look for a thing.
11:04Don't look for a strap.
11:06Don't look for anything.
11:07Throw it down, and now out again.
11:10Explain that to me, sir.
11:11Can you explain it?
11:12The answer is you can't.
11:15Love it.
11:16Such a simple case.
11:17Makes it so much easier.
11:18Now, why don't you tell me what you were doing in the garage?
11:21Looking for my dirt bike.
11:23I don't see you looking for anything.
11:24If you were looking for it, you looked for it and didn't find it.
11:27And according to you, it's not a garage.
11:29It's a carport.
11:30Right.
11:30Yeah, right.
11:31What were you doing there, sir?
11:33Had you been drinking?
11:34I just want to know what you were doing there.
11:36I don't believe the story that you told me, that you woke up in the morning with a bike
11:41that wasn't working.
11:42You leaned at your straps.
11:43You went there.
11:44Clearly didn't look for anything that I saw in this carport.
11:48I looked to see under if there's a strap that I'm looking for under his bike, and I didn't.
11:53And I left.
11:54And then you came back.
11:55I walked to see, and then I came back.
11:58You walked to see what?
11:59You walked outside.
12:00There's nothing outside except bushes.
12:01Well, I looked for the tie-down that wasn't there.
12:03Show me where you looked for the tie-down before you came back and knocked over the other bike.
12:09Well, I looked for the tie-down on the bike that's out of frame.
12:12But then what did you come back and knock it over for?
12:14I never got to see under that bike.
12:16I just looked at the first bike originally to see if I could find the strap, which I didn't see
12:20anything.
12:20And I said, maybe it's under this other bike, and I leaned the bike slightly to see if it was
12:25there.
12:25You didn't lean the bike.
12:26You threw it over.
12:27I leaned the bike over, Your Honor.
12:29Let's watch it again.
12:42No.
12:43Threw it over.
12:44Okay.
12:44Can I see the damage and the invoice to fix the bike?
12:48Yes.
12:48Do you also want to see the estimate to fix the truck and the slashed tires?
12:54I don't see him doing the slashed tires, sir.
12:57It all happened at the same exact time.
12:59It may have, but I'm not sure that you saw him slash the tires on your truck.
13:04It was that person in the video.
13:05Was it before or after he exited?
13:08Just after this.
13:09And where was the truck parked?
13:11Go over to the video.
13:12Right across the street to the right.
13:14Go over to the video.
13:17You can almost see it.
13:19It's just right here.
13:20It's all speculation.
13:22Okay.
13:22It's a lie.
13:24It's not a lie, dude.
13:25It's going there.
13:26Just a second.
13:27I would suggest that you not interrupt him again.
13:31Okay.
13:32Can I see pictures of the truck, please?
13:34Sure.
13:34You have a police report?
13:35I do not.
13:36Why not?
13:37I did not file one.
13:39Why not?
13:39I did not think I was going to need one.
13:42What do you mean you didn't think you were going to need one?
13:43My insurance said I didn't need one.
13:46Your insurance said you didn't need a police report in order for them to pay you for the damage?
13:51Yeah.
13:52Correct.
13:52Let's not play with me, please.
13:54Yeah.
13:55It's just they said I have basic liability, so.
13:57So I'm not entertaining this without information.
14:00And one of the pieces of information is a police report.
14:05I should have got one.
14:06Should have gotten that.
14:07You should have gotten statements from your insurance company that you had.
14:11Because according to you, which I also am not sure whether you went to the same fibbing school.
14:19Allegedly, they gave you a bill for $26.85.
14:24That's on August 10th.
14:25Now, you write to him on August 15th that the damage is $900.
14:31You want to explain that to me or just tell me I made a mistake?
14:43Brian Kovarek has accused his former friend, Jeremy Delbianco, of vandalizing his truck and tipping over his motorcycle.
14:53Okay, if somebody came to my house that I wasn't speaking to and I had video of them destroying my
15:03property,
15:04I would have called the police and said somebody who I know just vandalized my property just to memorialize it
15:12because it's frightening.
15:13I actually did file a police incident report online.
15:18Oh, I'd like to see that.
15:20Can I have a minute?
15:21Absolutely.
15:25I'm just finding correspondence with the detective.
15:29Oh, great.
15:30That'll help me.
15:32This looks like the first one on August 20th.
15:46Okay.
15:46Now, do you have any communication with the defendant?
15:49No.
15:50None at all.
15:50After the incident.
15:51I'm talking about after the incident.
15:53I tried texting.
15:55I got no answer.
15:56Never try to get a hold of me ever.
15:57I can search my phone.
15:59I tried texting him and there's no answer.
16:02And a friend of a friend's...
16:03I like to know what phone number you've texted.
16:04Don't.
16:04Don't.
16:04Because I never received any.
16:05Don't speak.
16:07A mutual friend said he changed his number.
16:09Did you recently change your phone number?
16:13My phone has been compromised.
16:14That's either yes or no.
16:16Yes, Your Honor.
16:16When did you change the phone number?
16:18On what date?
16:19That was July.
16:23Okay.
16:23So you texted him afterwards and you texted him to a number that you didn't have.
16:28Is that correct?
16:29Yeah, I found it.
16:31This is August 15th.
16:32Can I see it?
16:33Yeah.
16:41Okay.
16:42So on August 15th, it says you pay me $900 for the damage or I show your video to the
16:48cops
16:48and you go to jail.
16:49Correct.
16:50Okay.
16:50So by August 15th, which was a week later...
16:54I'm speaking!
16:55Sorry, Your Honor.
16:55I'll tell you what we're going to do with you because I'm getting too old to do this.
16:59You sit down over there.
17:00That's right.
17:01When I want you, you're going to hop up and stand over there.
17:03That's right.
17:04That's the way we're going to do it now because you don't know how to be quiet and I'm annoyed
17:07and this is the first case of the day today.
17:10I don't want to start out being annoyed because then I get cranky.
17:13Nobody likes to see me cranky.
17:15So when I ask you a question, you'll hop up, answer the question, then you're going to sit
17:20down again.
17:20Yes, Your Honor.
17:21Do you understand?
17:22All right, that's going to be an interesting scenario.
17:24Okay, so this is for you, sir, so we don't play with each other.
17:28You're suing him for a lot of money, but on the 15th of August, where I assume you had
17:34already taken your bike in to be repaired.
17:37Yeah.
17:37Okay.
17:38No, it's not repaired yet.
17:39No, no, no.
17:40Just listen to me, sir.
17:41On the 15th of August, so let's be clear.
17:45Okay.
17:46Because math is not my strong suit.
17:49Common sense would be my strong suit.
17:52On August 10th, allegedly, you took in this bike to be repaired at a local repair shop.
18:00Allegedly, they gave you a bill for $26.85.
18:05Okay, $26.85.
18:08That's on August 10th.
18:09Now, you write to him on August 15th, five days later, according to you, and say, pay me
18:16$900 for the damage or I show the video to the cops and you go to jail.
18:22Now, you had already had an estimate, maybe, but you tell him in August that the damage
18:30that you want him to pay for is $900.
18:33You want to explain that to me or just tell me I made a mistake?
18:36No, I took the bike in on August, what was it?
18:4010th.
18:4010th.
18:41It was there for two weeks.
18:42No.
18:43Okay.
18:44It wasn't there for two weeks.
18:47You want to explain to me why after you took the bike in, allegedly, and got me this phony
18:53estimate, that you wrote him and said the damages that you cost were $900.
18:59Because I didn't know the damage of the bike in.
19:00Well, that would be too bad for you because if he had said to you, okay, I'm sorry, I
19:04was drunk, I was a little high, here's the $900, what would you have done?
19:08Yeah, I would have taken it.
19:09Yeah, well, that's what you're going to take now.
19:11Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of $900.
19:13We're finished.
19:14Thank you very much.
19:15This court is adjourned.
19:21I don't feel like that was just, but I accept what Judge Judy's decision was.
19:26Well, I feel justice definitely was not done.
19:28I just recommend not get involved with people who you can't really trust.
19:32He caused $6,000 worth of damage, property damage, and I'm coming away with, you know,
19:38a sixth of that.
19:39He left me in Hawaii and showed his true colors on a trip that was supposed to celebrate
19:43his birthday.
19:44Just an argument over nothing serious, just sleeping arrangements.
19:48Don't get involved with Brian.
19:50He's not a very trustworthy person.
19:51No more friends for me.
19:54You know, nowadays, Big Brother is always watching.
19:58There's cameras everywhere.
19:59So people are always watching and I think it skews our judgment a little bit because I think
20:04in this case, because the damage to the truck wasn't caught on camera as well as the bike
20:11being tipped over, it made us a little bit cautious as to whether or not that even happened
20:17or if we could connect it to the defendant.
20:18And I just think that it's so different than it was 40 years ago or 50 years ago when no
20:24one had that sort of technology.
20:25So you had to rely on the words of people and witnesses and things like that.
20:30But now we have technology as a witness.
20:32You have black and white evidence, clear, tangible evidence.
20:38It's sort of interesting.
20:39I remember the debate when they wanted to put up cameras all around cities.
20:45And, oh my goodness, they were up in arms.
20:48It's an invasion of privacy.
20:50It's a violation of the Constitution to put up cameras.
20:54Well, the lunatics lost, fortunately, because if you're out in a public street, you have
21:00no expectation of privacy.
21:02And it certainly helps solve crimes.
21:05I mean, we had one just this week in New York where a man was tragically gunned down
21:10in the middle of Manhattan.
21:13But there were cameras.
21:14And you actually saw the person who killed him.
21:18And because of that video and the ones that will track him all over the city from those
21:23cameras, you're going to find them.
21:24I could never understand why the loonies opposed cameras in the street to help maintain security
21:32of the citizens in the city.
21:33If you're doing the right thing.
21:34I couldn't understand that.
21:35Fortunately, they lost.
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