Ziz, aka Jack LaSota, the purported ringleader of a bizarre cult that appears to have grown out of the Bay Area and the rationalist movement, has been found and arrested in Maryland, along with one or two other figures who were also on the run from the law...

… All three were considered persons of interest in the December 31, 2022 double-murder of Zajko's parents in nearby Pennsylvania. The trio were detained by police in January 2023 in a hotel near the Philadelphia airport — with LaSota feigning, or being in, some sort of trance state — and both LaSota and Blank were held in custody on obstruction charges and resisting arrest. LaSota was eventually released on bail five months later and has failed to appear for subsequent court dates.

Zajko was the alleged purchaser of a gun linked to her parents' murder, and the gun subsequently turned up along with other weapons in the possession of two individuals who last month were involved in the alleged killing of a border patrol agent in Vermont, 44-year-old David Maland. 21-year-old Teresa Youngblut remains in custody for that crime, and was shot and injured herself, while 28-year-old German national Ophelia Bauckholt was shot and killed.