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Cultlike group’s leader connected to 6 killings in 3 states ordered held without bail in Maryland
The leader of a cultlike group connected to six killings in three states was ordered held without bail Tuesday in Maryland, where she faces trespassing and other charges. Jack LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California, and two others arrested with her on Sunday appeared via videoconference for bail hearings in Allegany County District Court. A judge…
Read MoreMysterious leader of violent, cultlike Zizian group arrested in Western Maryland
Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, the apparent leader of the Zizians, a cult-like group tied to at least six deaths, was arrested Sunday evening in western Maryland. LaSota, who uses she/her pronouns, is being held in the Allegany County jail on charges of trespassing, wrongly possessing a handgun in a vehicle and obstructing or hindering authorities, according…
Read MoreCultlike group investigation linked to FBI search in North Carolina: Report
In the wooded outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a perplexed landlord noticed odd sights at two of his rental properties. Tenants wore long black coats and parked box trucks outside the duplexes. They ran an electrical cord from one box truck into one of the condos, and kept a stretcher inside another. A neighbor…
Read MoreBomb threat suspect tells PBSO he killed 10 girls, had ISIS training
An 18-year-old accused of threatening to a terror attack on Palm Beach Gardens High School claimed he had ISIS training. He also claimed to have killed ten girls, an assertion that authorities had no evidence to indicate was true. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) reported that they responded to JFK Hospital…
Read MoreSWAT arrests man suspected of robbing a Utah bank and sending threats to another
A man is accused of robbing a bank and stealing a dollar amount to reference the 9/11 attacks. On Thursday, Unified police and the FBI were called to a robbery that happened at a Chase Bank on 2855 E, 3300 South in Millcreek. Witnesses told investigators that a white man with a long beard left…
Read MoreAnniston man arrested after police find explosive devices, guns in vehicle
Jacksonville Police have arrested a man from Anniston for violating a protection order and possessing firearms and drugs. Police received a call Feb. 8 from a woman who said she was possibly being followed by 37-year-old Austin Heath Church who she had a protection from abuse order against. Officers arrested Church during a traffic stop…
Read MorePortland police arrest man reportedly threatening people with machete near Old Tow
After an hours-long police response near Old Town on Wednesday night, officers arrested a man at an apartment complex they said threatened people with a machete. A large police presence gathered in the 600 block of Northwest Naito Parkway in response to the incident at about 4 p.m. The Portland Police Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT)…
Read MoreIce cream truck left on Kelowna, B.C., bridge posed ‘significant’ public safety risk: RCMP
The bridge connecting the cities of Kelowna and West Kelowna in B.C.’s Okanagan was closed for nearly 12 hours Monday after someone left a truck containing materials that police said “present a significant risk to public safety” on the crossing. Kelowna RCMP closed the William R. Bennet Bridge around 3:45 a.m. after a “distraught” man…
Read MoreSuspects in killings of Vallejo witness, Vermont Border Patrol agent connected by marriage license, extreme ideology
Two young people who applied in November for a marriage license in Washington have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo. Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old data…
Read More3 dead, 2 police officers injured in grocery store shooting in Indiana
Two people were shot and killed inside a grocery store in Indiana on Monday, officials told ABC News. The incident took place at about 5:30 p.m. at Martin’s Super Market in Elkhart, Indiana, according to the Elkhart Police Department. Upon arrival, officers and first responders were directed to two shooting victims inside the store,” according…
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