Gigian, the obvious leader of the strange vegan transgender cult, is linked to the murders of six people across the country, including Border Patrol murders.
Jack “Ziz” Lasota, 34, was arrested Sunday along with 33-year-old Michelle Zaico and 26-year-old Daniel Blank. Maryland State Police said Monday. They face multiple charges including trespassing, obstructing, obstructing and possessing a handgun in a vehicle.
Lasota was released on bail in Cumberland's Alleghany District Court on Tuesday, with prosecutors citing concerns that he is a risk to flight and public safety.
Prosecutors said Lasota “appears to be the leader of an extremist group known as “Gijian,” which is linked to multiple killings.”
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Jack Lasota had his eyes closed after being detained in a hotel outside Pennsylvania on January 23, 2023, refused to speak for photos of his booking. (Delaware County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office via AP/File)
The Fringe Group has been in the spotlight After his followers were tied up in January to the murder of US Border Patrol agent David Malland near the Canadian border.
Run-in with Lasota law enforcement will return to at least 2022. Originally from Alaska, Lasota said, “It appeared to be writing extremist ideology on his blog since it was entitled “honestly titled.. ” Lasota was also identified as a transgender person and used female pronouns, reported the Associated Press.
In a February 2019 post entitled “Punching Evil,” it is believed that Lasota wrote that if “the state is seized by a vampire,” he would “not carry out self-defense” and “no moral obligation.”
In a November 19th post entitled “Good Group and Pasek's Doom,” Lasota wrote that each hemisphere has individual value, can even have gender, and “often try to kill each other.” Masu.
“Achieving interhemispheric peace with conflicting interests is a difficult process of repeatedly reconstructing the frame of game theory and decision theory in light of realising what was strategically damaged by your headmates. ” writes Lasota.
Lasota is also said to be targeted by police for wearing Sith-inspired outfits. Throughout the blog, Lasota regularly mentions her appeal with the Star Wars franchise.
“Sometimes, officers harass me by wearing my religious attire as a sis,” writes Lasota. “(As a cis, I'm religiously demanding that I do whatever I want to do. For now, it just happens to be wearing a black robe).
In September 2022, a short obituary appeared in Daily News Minor, a Lasota homeworld paper in Fairbanks, Alaska. (legacy.com)
Death in stages
September 2022, a A simple obituary It was published in the Daily News Minor, a Lasota homeworld paper in Fairbanks, Alaska. The obituary stated that Lasota was killed in a “boat accident” on August 19, 2022.
“Love adventures, friends and family, music, blueberries, cycling, computer games, animals, you're overlooked,” the obituary reads.
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However, Lasota's death was short-lived when the Sonoma County District Attorney's office informed Lasota's lawyers that Lasota had been found “living” at the crime scene on November 13, 2022. . San Francisco Chronicle.
It was not immediately clear why Lasota falsified his death. The mystery deepened after his name was linked to a criminal investigation in California in 2022.
Criminal investigation in Valleyho, California
Lasota's death was contradictory after his name appeared in a squatting incident in Valleyjo, California.
The incident was resolved when Lasota and others moved to Vallejo, a member of an elderly California man who was then 80 years old Kurt Lind.
“They were unhappy about living in Tag,” Lind told the documentary director. San Francisco Chronicle. “They moved to my yard, bought a moving van, a small moving van, and decided they wanted to change it to a place where they could live in a moving van, and no one knew they were there. It must be.”
During the November 2022 incident, Kurt Lind was attacked by members of the Gigien Cult with the sword of the Sa village. (gofundme)
During the November 2022 incident, Lind was attacked with a samurai sword as the squatting conflict reached its boiling point.
“He thrusts the samurai sword into his back, about a foot of his legs thrust forward, and his face round,” said Lind's friend Patrick McMillan. Fox 2 San Francisco At the time of the incident.
“The truth is, they jumped over him,” his son, Carl Lind, told the outlet.
Lind was able to shoot two of the attackers despite the stab wounds and kill one of them, Emma Boranian. The prosecutor concluded that the landlord acted in self-defense.
Police report said Lasota was handcuffed at the scene at the gun, but was not charged.
Surviving Lind's first attack was short-lived, but on January 17, 2025 he was stabbed to death.
Another “Ziz” member Maximilian Snyder, 22, was arrested and charged with his murder, Fox 13 Seattle.
The outlet also reported that Snyder has applied for a marriage license to Teresa Youngbrute, which is linked to the murder of a border agent in 2025.
Michelle Zaico's previous mug shot (FBI)
32-year-old Michelle Zaico was also charged with resisting arrest and carrying a handgun. (Aregany County Sheriff's Office)
Chester Heights, Pennsylvania arrested
Richard and Rita Zaico are found dead from a murder caused by a bullet wound in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, at the Great Vehicle House.
Police have begun investigating the murder and have started looking at their daughter, Jamie Zaico, another follower of Lasota.
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Daniel Blank is said to have been involved in the 2023 murders of Richard and Rita Zaico. Blank and Lasota were charged with “obstructing control of the law” and “disorderly conduct.” (Aregany County Sheriff's Office)
Lasota gets caught up in a conflict while investigating police in Zaiko's murder.
Daniel Blank is also “Gijian,” and Lasota was discovered on January 13th, 2023 at a hotel in Pennsylvania. Both were arrested for “obstructing control of the law” and “disorderly conduct.”
Lasota was released on bail in June 2023 and reportedly stopped competing in court dates soon after. Lasota was being considered on a large scale in a Pennsylvania arrest warrant.
Vermont Investigation
Maryland Police We confirmed to Fox News Digital that Lasota, Zajko and others were arrested Sunday afternoon on numerous charges unrelated to Maland's murder in Vermont, near the border with Canada.
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Police say that after 2:30pm on February 16, Lasota was arrested and charged with breaking into, obstructing, obstructing and carrying a firearm in a vehicle in Frostburg, Maryland. Ta. Zaiko was arrested on the same charge, resisted arrest and carried a handgun.
Zajko is said to have purchased a .40 caliber and .380 caliber handgun in Mount Tabor, Vermont in February 2024. Maran's shooting, The Albany Times Union reported earlier, citing court documents.
David Malland, a Minnesota native and air force veteran, worked as a Border Patrol agent at Newport U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Station. He worked in the military for nine years and 15 years in the federal government. (US Border Patrol)
A Minnesota native and Air Force veteran, Maran worked as an agent for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He worked in the military for nine years and 15 years in the federal government.
It is unclear what brought the group members to Vermont.
German National Felix “Ophelia” Buckholt and Young Blute exchanged gunshots with Maran near the Canadian Vermont border on January 20th during a traffic stop. Bauckholt and Maland were killed. YoungBlut was injured and faced criminal charges.
Theresa Youngbrute, charged by the FBI in connection with the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, will be seen on January 14, 2025 at Newport City Inn, Virginia. (Photo by Newport City Inn via AP)
What Gigian believes
“Zizians” was created by Lasota, who goes by the nickname “Ziz.”
The group shows the behavior of the cult, according to Dar Dixon, an actor and podcast host for The Art of Being Dar, who shared his cult expertise with Fox News Digital.
“What I realized about this 'Gijian' cult was that it hits all the key points that someone sets up to get involved in it. Do you have a trans person? “Anytime you deal with your sexual identity and you do everything, you already have someone by, as they say, tight and curly,” he said.
“The second was that they had a restrictive diet. In this case, they were vegan,” he said. “So when you start mixing sexually, then Restricted dietWhat you're doing now is behavioral control. ”
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References from cult expert Stephen Hassan A bite model of authoritarian controlDixon discussed how cults emotionally control their members.
“I'm also sure there's a lot of sleep deprivation. It affects your thoughts. It affects your feelings.
“This is part of emotional control. You are not allowed to feel your feelings or discuss your feelings. If you don't follow the party line, you'll be immediately orally or physically. Sometimes you are strictly rebuked, or you are shunned.”
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“So, the culmination of sexual identity, food restrictions, sleep restrictions, emotional restrictions, well, now I have you,” he said. “I own you, and I can take you in the direction I want to take you now.”
Stepheny Price from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
