The man known as Jack LaSota, or by the nickname “Ziz,” or the name Andrea Phelps was ordered to be held without bail in a Maryland jail after being arrested in Frostburg, Maryland on Sunday.
LaSota, 33, along with Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26 were arrested on Sunday afternoon after they parked a box truck on private property. They appeared to be armed. The owner became concerned and called police.
The charges themselves don’t seem serious enough to warrant behind held without bail, but nevertheless the judge said LaSota is a flight risk and a danger to public safety.
Prosecutor James Elliott of Allegany County’s State Attorney’s Office, said LaSota “appears to be the leader of a violent group known as Zizians.”
The group is connected to six murders in California, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, including a shootout that took the life of a border patrol officer in Vermont on Jan. 20 and the life of another person.
Elliott described to the judge how LaSota had once faked his own death by supposedly falling overboard in San Francisco Bay. His Fairbanks, Alaska parents had him declared dead. He appeared later in connection with a brutal attack on an elderly man in California. Later, that man was murdered.
In 2023, Pennsylvania police found LaSota, Zajko, and Blank in a hotel room near the Philadelphia airport while police were investigating a double homicide of Zajko’s parents. Police testified that during the arrest LaSota acted comatose, “had eyes closed…would not speak…was just laying almost unconscious or as if dead on the ground…had to be carried out.”
On June 22, 2023, LaSota’s bail was lowered to an unsecured bond of $10,000. He would only owe the money if he failed to appear. His attorney promised the judge that LaSota’s mother “will take him home and make sure he comes back for all the court dates.” But LaSota did not appear for his December 2023 trial, which led to a warrant being issued.
At Tuesday’s hearing, LaSota said he has done nothing wrong and asked the judge for pretrial release. He claimed he is homeless and has no money to travel. He also requested a vegan diet while in jail and said he would starve if not given one and that he was already suffering from delirium due to lack of food, according to the Associated Press.
As of Sunday, he is prisoner No. 57555 at the Allegeny County Detention Centers, facing three charges: Trespassing on private property, possession of a handgun in a vehicle, and obstructing and hindering. The other two transgenders are held as well, although it’s unclear if it is in the women’s section of the prison, or the men’s section.
Rebecca Francoeur-Breeden is the public defender representing LaSota and the other two being held. According to the Associated Press, she said she had spoken with LaSota’s mother twice since LaSota was arrested and the attorney noted that LaSota is a very intelligent person.
LaSota had a blog, “Sinceriously Fresh, tasty knowledge of good and evil” that can still be read at the internet archives, at this link. He stopped writing his blog just before he faked his death.
Also with Northwest ties, Zajko, who is the person of interest in the 2022 double homicide of his parents, is alleged to have provided the guns that were used in the shootout with border patrol agent David Maland last month.
One of the people involved in the shootout that killed the officer is Teresa Youngblut, 21, who graduated from a prestigious school in Seattle and is a former University of Washington student. Read the Department of Justice’s account of Youngblut’s involvement in the shooting at this link.
With Youngblut in the car was a German national with an expired immigration visa, Felix Bauckholt, who was also killed during the shootout. Youngblut has pled not guilty and is being held without bail.
Those agents in Vermont should have listened to Sheriff Judd from Florida. When asked why the cop killer had been shot 68 times he said. ‘ because that’s when we ran out of bullets.”
Hard to say anything positive about these supposedly bright youngsters, except… their ‘inclusivity and diversity’ universities must be PROUD of them.
Full confinement mental institutions
Need to make a comeback
Because more than one
Flew over the coo-coos nest
My God – seriously – my God – I would love to know this person’s childhood. I can’t help but think there was some kind of trauma. Which would explain the gender dysphoria – which would explain it. All that to say that most (not all) transitions come from childhood trauma.
He’s just misunderstood
……..the faces and products of our public schools. Good job, LGBTQ and DEI teachers.
Chrissy,
He’s also a UAF grad. New course offering on the hill. How to be a DEI and LGBTQ killer 101. Great publicity for UAF.
Thoroughly confused individual. Man pretending to be a woman. One side of his brain trying to kill the other side. A computer degree from UAF with AI focus. A killer. UAF should be so proud.
HELP!!! Federal funds for climate research are going to dry up at UAA and UAF.
Now with LGBTQ killers (with UA degrees) on the loose, who is going to donate to our legacy institution? Professor layoffs next?
This from The Palm Springs Desert Sun: According to LaSota’s online writings and Chronicle reporting, LaSota developed a theory that the brain’s two hemispheres could hold separate values and genders and “often desire to kill each other.” LaSota believed transgender women were naturally gifted. LaSota has also written about improving human cognition and the dangers of artificial intelligence.