Border Patrol agent in a case that has grown to encompass killings in multiple states. Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces federal firearms charges in the Jan. Pennsylvania state police said Wednesday that the gun used in the Vermont shooting was purchased by a person of interest in the Dec.
Both Youngblut and the buyer were in frequent contact with someone who was detained as part of the Pennsylvania investigation and is a person of interest in another killing in California, U. Attorney Michael Drescher said in a court filing. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. Jack LaSota is currently facing charges of obstructing law enforcement and disorderly conduct in Pennsylvania.
In , LaSota and three others were arrested while protesting an event hosted by the Center for Applied Rationality at a camping retreat in Occidental, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In , two of the others, Emma Borhanian and Jeffrey Leatham, were accused of attacking their landlord with a sword in Vallejo. The landlord, Curtis Lind, survived the November attack but was stabbed to death Jan. Maximilian Snyder was charged this week with that killing.
In November, someone with the same name applied for a marriage license with a Teresa Youngblut in Kirkland, Washington. LaSota may have been present during the landlord attack, according to court documents that also suggest LaSota had been falsely reported dead three months earlier. On Aug. The attorney who represented LaSota in the criminal case did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
A phone message was left at the office of the lawyer listed as representing him in the current Pennsylvania case. Though authorities have not publicly identified the person who bought the gun used in Vermont, the VTDigger news site reported that federal authorities issued an alert to firearms dealers seeking information about purchases made by Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and describing her as a person of interest in the Vermont shooting.
