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Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment

Posted on | June 20, 2025 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment

Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz”

Wednesday press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office:

Today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging Jack Amadeus LaSota, 34, of Fairbanks, Alaska — aka Andrea Phelps; Ann Grimes; Anne Grimes; Canaris; Julia LaSota; Ziz — with being a fugitive from justice in possession of firearms and ammunition.
Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the indictment with Acting Special Agent in Charge Amanda M. Koldjeski, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Baltimore Field Office.
According to the indictment, LaSota possessed several firearms, including a GM6 Lynx .50 caliber rifle, a black HS Produkt, model Hellcat, 9x19mm handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. At the time, LaSota was knowingly a fugitive from justice and therefore was not permitted by law to possess a firearm or ammunition.
If convicted, LaSota faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. . . .
U.S. Attorney Hayes commended the FBI, the Allegany County State’s Attorney’s Office, and the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office for their work in the investigation. Ms. Hayes also thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared M. Beim who is prosecuting the federal case.

Via Andy Ngo, who reminds us of the background:

[LaSota] remained a fugitive until being caught in western rural Maryland in February amid a manhunt of the Trantifa terror cult’s members.
Since then, he has been in custody after being denied bail, along with two fellow Zizian members, Michelle “Jamie” Zajko and Daniel Blank. In Maryland, LaSota faces local charges of trespass and firearm offenses.
He has an open criminal case in Pennsylvania related to the obstruction of an investigation of a double homicide in 2023 and a 2019 riot-related case in California.
Currently, three other Zizian members are in custody in California for two murders. Another member, Seattle woman Teresa Youngblut, is in custody in New Hampshire over the homicide of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in January.

By the way, with the cult leader and two of his accomplices in custody, I’d sort of backed off coverage of the Zizians and, in the process, missed out on two excellent accounts of the cult: “The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians” (Evan Ratliff, Wired, February 21) and “‘Show her the body’: Alleged kill orders, cult behavior inside the Bay Area Zizians” (Katie Dowd and Andrew Chamings, SFGate, February 26). Both of those stories are worth reading because they mention Alice Monday, who was Michelle Zajko’s girlfriend from 2018 to 2022. Zajko and Monday at one point lived together in Vermont, but Zajko claims Lasota ordered her to murder Monday who, apparently, fled the country and is now living in Chile. Also, our friends at Kiwi Farms have a complete text of Michelle Zajko’s “Open Letter” (which I’d partially quoted in April), in case you wanted to get the paranoid delusion straight from the kook.

Like I keep telling y’all, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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