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Maryland state authorities have announced the arrest of alleged Zizians leader Jack Lasota, 34, as well as 33 -year -old Michelle Zaiko from Pennsylvania. The two detainees are accused of illegal entry into the country, obstructing justice and possession of a vehicle.
The arrest took place on Sunday, with a warranty hearing scheduled for 11am on Tuesday morning at the Alegani Regional Court.
Dark history and interface with crimes
The Zizians team, as the Guardian reports, is linked to the murder of US border guard David Maland in January near the Canadian border, as well as five more homicides in Vermond, Pennsylvania and California.
The 44 -year -old Maland was killed on January 20 in an exchange of shots during a rolling of the city of Coventry, about 32 kilometers from the border with Canada. This tragic event was the starting point of a broader research that revealed the team's action.
The ideological background of the sect
The Zizians team appears to be made up of young, intelligent computer scientists, mainly people aged 20 to 30, who met online, shared anarchist beliefs and escalated into violent acts. Their writings cover a variety of themes, from radical veganism and gender identity to artificial intelligence.
The alleged leader of the team, who calls himself "Ziz" and uses the she/Her pronouns, is known for her extreme online posts. In a blog he maintained, he describes the theory that the two hemispheres of the brain can have different values and gender and that "they often want to exterminate each other".
Lasota, who declares a trans woman, has expressed in her texts intense hostility to various groups, such as those that focus on understanding human intellect through logic and science, with some worrying about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
The Apparent Leader of a Cultlike Group Known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland Along with Another Member of the Group, Maryland State Police Said Monday. https://t.co/bhww9UPGCV
- CBS News (@Cbsnews) February 18, 2025
She has not responded to repeated attempts by the Associated Press in recent weeks. Her lawyer, Daniel McGarigl, avoided answering whether she was involved in the murder case.
"I can only confirm that I have represented it legally," McGarigl said, without mentioning the arrest or other details of the case. Lasota already had pending arrest warrants in two states, as it did not appear in previous judicial proceedings.
Authorities are continuing the investigation, examining the group's motives and the conditions under which its murder was organized.
The timing of the Zizians Action
It follows a look at the timetable of the events of a series of murders that culminated in the shooting on January 20, during which a Brigadier Officer in Vermont was killed.
It is based on interviews by the Associated Press and a review of police reports, judicial records and online posts:
2016
Jack Lasota, who uses female pronouns, computer programmer and transsexual woman living in the San Francisco Bay area, begins to write a blog with the "ziz" with complex and sometimes abstract theories about technology, gender identity and human intellect. It participates in the rational movement, a community that is trying to understand human intelligence and worries about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
2018
Lasota is watching programs organized by rational groups, but is separated from them after rejecting its theory that the two hemispheres of the brain can keep distinct values and genders.
November 2019
Lasota and three other people - Emma Borhanian, Gwen Danielson and Alexander Leatham - are arrested during a protest, as they described it, against sexual abuse.
August 2022
The American Coast Guard responds to a report that Lasota had fallen from a boat to the Gulf of San Francisco. No corpse is found but necrology is published.
Boston (AP) - The Apparent Leader of a Cultlike Group Known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland Along with Another Member of the Group, Maryland State Police Said Monday. Jack Lasota, 34, was arrested Sunday Along with Michelle Zajko, 33, of Media, Pennsylvania. They… pic.twitter.com/zsphavr75n
- FEBRARY 17, 2025
November 2022
Curtis Lind appeals to court to prosecute Lasota, Borhanian, Leatham and others who lived on trucks and lorries in his ownership in Vallejo, California, due to non-payment of rent. On November 15, two days before the extermination deadline, Lind is nailed with a sword and is partially blinded into an attack in which he shoots and kills Borhanian.
Concluding that Lind acted in self -defense, authorities accuse Leatham and Suri Dao of murder. Lasota is not accused, but the police report that she came into contact with her at the crime scene.
December
2022
Rita and Richard Zaiko are shot and killed in their home in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania on New Year's Eve. A neighbor's bell camera records in sound and videos a car approaching their home, a voice shouting "mom!" And another voice exclaims: "My God! Oh, my God, my God! "
January 2023
Police interrogate Zajkos' daughter Michelle at her home in Vermond. A few weeks later, police officers arrest her for a while in a Pennsylvania hotel, but released her without charges. Lasota, who lives in the same hotel, is arrested and accused of preventing homicide research and inappropriate behavior.
May 2024
Teresa Yangblut's parents declare her disappearance to Seattle, as she sends her mother to e -mail that she said she moved to a girlfriend and changed her phone.
November 2024
Yangblut and Maximilian Snyder are applying for a marriage permit in the state of Washington. Also this month, Yangblut begins renting an apartment near Bauckholt's home in North Carolina.
January 2025
Yangblut and Bauckholt check-in at a hotel in Lyndonville, Vermond on January 14th. Researchers are following the couple under surveillance, as a hotel worker reports concerns about their all -and -white regular clothing and the weapon carried by Youngblut.
On January 17, Lind, the owner in California, is killed. Schneider is accused of murder, and prosecutors claim to have been trying to prevent Leed from testifying against the previous attackers.
On January 20, US Border Guard police stopped Yangblut and Bauckholt on the 91 highway in Bermond Coventry. Agent David Maland and Baukhchholt are killed in an exchange of shots. Youngblut, who is injured, is accused of gun possession.
February 2025
The FBI is investigating the property in Chapel Hill, where according to the owner of the house, Yangblut, Baukholt and Lasota stayed earlier in the winter.
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