Transgender cult chief linked to frame agent killing maintains innocence, asks for vegan meals in jail

The obvious head of a radical transgender cult linked to 6 killings, together with a U.S. Border Patrol agent, informed a Maryland decide final week, “I haven’t carried out something mistaken” whereas pleading for entry to vegan meals behind bars.

“I’d starve to loss of life for those who can’t reply me,” Jack Amadeus LaSota, 34, who goes by “Ziz,” informed Choose Erich Bean throughout a bail listening to in Allegany County District Court docket in Maryland on Feb. 18, in accordance with audio obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. “I would like the jail to be ordered for me to have a vegan weight loss plan. It’s extra essential than no matter this listening to is.”

In the course of the listening to, LaSota mentioned at one other level that releasing him on bail “could also be a matter of survival if I don’t get vegan meals. . . . I haven’t carried out something mistaken. I shouldn’t be right here.”

He continued, saying that he is likely to be in a “delicate state of delusion” because of a scarcity of vegan choices within the Allegany County Detention Heart and that he’s not a flight danger since he’s homeless.

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Maryland State Police arrested three members of the group — Jack Amadeus Lasota, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and Daniel Arthur Clean — on Feb. 16 in reference to the Jan. 20 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland throughout a site visitors cease in Vermont, the Maryland State Police mentioned. (Allegany County Sheriff’s Workplace)

LaSota and two different reported Zizian members, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, 32, of Media, Pa., and Daniel Arthur Clean, 26, of Sacramento, Calif., had been arrested on Feb. 16 in Maryland.

LaSota and his associates face a number of costs, together with trespassing and possession of a handgun. Their arrests introduced consideration to the “Zizian” cult – a gaggle of radical younger individuals who principally establish as transgender, who’re recognized for his or her affinity for veganism and their hyperlink to violent killings.

The Zizians’ violence was most not too long ago linked to the Jan. 20 killing of Vermont Border Patrol Agent David Christopher Maland, 44.

In September 2022, a quick obituary was revealed in LaSota’s hometown paper, the Every day Information-Miner, in Fairbanks, Alaska. The obituary claims that LaSota was killed in a “boating accident” on Aug. 19, 2022. (Legacy.com)

In the course of the listening to, Allegany County Legal professional James Elliott described LaSota as somebody who “seems to be the chief of an extremist group referred to as the Zizians. That group is tied to a number of homicides.”

“It’s essential to notice Mr. LaSota has ties to Alaska, California, Vermont, [and] Pennsylvania at this level that the state is conscious of,” he mentioned.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to LaSota’s public defender in Maryland, Rebecca Francoeur-Breeden.

David Maland, a Minnesota native and U.S. Air Pressure veteran, labored as a Border Patrol agent on the U.S. Customs and Border Safety’s Newport Station. He spent 9 years within the army and 15 working for the federal authorities.  (U.S. Border Patrol)

Prosecutors in Vermont have charged certainly one of LaSota’s associates, Teresa Youngblut, 21, in reference to a shootout that left Maland lifeless.

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Youngblut was driving with German nationwide Felix Bauckholt, additionally a reported member of the “Zizians,” when the pair had been pulled over by federal brokers on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. In line with police, the 2 opened fireplace on brokers. Bauckholt was killed, and Youngblut was wounded. Youngblut has pleaded not responsible within the case.

Youngblut and Bauckholt used weapons bought in Vermont by Zajko, authorities beforehand mentioned.

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Zajko can also be a “particular person of curiosity” within the 2022 deaths of her mother and father, Richard and Rita Zajko, in Media, Pa. Nobody has been charged of their killings, in accordance with authorities. 

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The group reveals cult habits, in accordance with Dar Dixon, an actor and the podcast host of “The Artwork of Being Dar,” who shared his cult experience with Fox Information Digital. 

“The factor that I seen about this ‘Zizian’ cult is that it hits all the most important factors that can set someone as much as be concerned in it. You’ve got obtained transgender human beings, alright? You are coping with sexuality. You are coping with sexual identification, and also you’re coping with intercourse. Anytime you do all these issues, you’ve got already obtained somebody, as they are saying, by the tight and curlies,” he mentioned. 

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“The second factor is that they had been on a restrictive weight loss plan. On this case, they had been vegan,” he mentioned. “So, if you begin to combine within the sexual facet, then with a restrictive weight loss plan, now what you are doing is habits management.”

A drone flies above a robotic machine inspecting a backpack close to what seems to be a physique on the bottom on southbound Route 91 close to Newport, Vermont, the place a U.S. Border Patrol Agent was shot lifeless, Monday, January 20, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox Information Digital)

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Referencing cult knowledgeable Steven Hassan’s BITE Mannequin of Authoritarian Management, Dixon mentioned how cults emotionally management their members.

“I am positive there was a number of sleep deprivation happening, additionally, which impacts your ideas, which impacts your feelings, which additionally impacts your habits and your skill to absorb and course of data,” he mentioned.

“That is a part of the emotional management. You are by no means allowed to really feel your emotions or to debate your emotions. In the event you do not step according to the occasion line, you are instantly reprimanded, generally severely, both verbally or bodily, otherwise you’re shunned.”

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“So, the fruits of sexual identification, meals restriction, sleep restriction and emotional restriction, nicely, now I’ve obtained you,” he mentioned. “I personal you. And I can take you any route I wish to take you now.”