The judge orders the leaders of the cult ‘Zizian’ group that will be held without bail | News of crimes

The Maryland court ordered a blogger known as “Ziz”, which leads to a cult group associated with six murders, to maintain without a bail.

Blogger, Jack Lasota, 34, from Berkeley, California, was arrested on Sunday with Michelle Zajko, 32, from Media, Pennsylvania and Daniel Blank, 26, from Sacramento, California. Three face charges, including decay, obstructing and disturbance and possession of a pistol in the vehicle.

Zizijci, such as a group known after their apparent leader, related to murder a The border patrol of the United States Agent David Maland last month near the Canadian border, as well as five other killings in three countries.

Lasota, Zajko and Blank were arrested on Sunday afternoon in Frostburg, Maryland.

In the case, the judge ordered Lasota to be kept without bail, citing concern for the risk of flight and the danger of public security. Prosecutors said Lasota “seems to be a leader of a violent group known as Zizians.”

Malan was killed in shooting on January 20 after stopping a traffic in Coventry in Vermont, a small town of about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the Canadian border. Felix Bauckholt, a car passenger, also died, and Teresa Youngblut’s driver said he was not guilty of federal charges of firearms.

Zizijci is also related to the death of a woman during the attack on the California landlord in November 2022, a subsequent killing of renters in January and the death of Zajk’s parents in December 2022 in Pennsylvania.

The suspects were arrested after the Frostburg resident told police that he wanted three “suspicious” people from his estate after parked two trucks there and asked the camp for a month, according to police documents.

When they were arrested, they were dressed in black and two wore weapons belts, police reported. Officers found a rifle in the back of one truck and a pistol on the front base. Zajko, who refused to put his hands behind his back and took to the ground, also wore a gun, police said.

Officials said the weapon recovered by a person interested in the death of Richard and Rita Zajka in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, and that Youngblut was in close contact with a person interested in killing in Vallejo, California.

Maximilian Snyder, who applied for a marital license with Youngblut in November, was charged with the death of Curtis Lind on January 17, a renamed Vallejo renters who survived the earlier attack by members of the Zizian Group and was ready to testify against them.

Officials have offered several details about running investigations, but interviewing Associated Press and Review of Court records and internet posts tell about how a group of young people, highly intelligent computer scientists, most in the 20s and 30s, met online, divided, divided anarchist beliefs and became more violent.

Although the goals of the group are not clear, the internet writings include topics such as radical veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence.

Lasota, an apparent leader of the group, published a dark and sometimes violent blog under the name Ziz and, in one section, described his theory that two brain hemispheres could retain separate values ​​and sexes and “often want to kill each other.”

Lasota, who used her pronouns, said in her writings that she was a transgender woman. Lasota also opposed perceived enemies, including the so -called rationalist groups, which mainly act on the network and seek to understand human knowledge through reason and knowledge. Some deal with potential dangers artificial intelligence.

Her lawyers Daniel McGarrigle refused to comment. Attempts to reach lawyers for Zajko and Blank were not successful.