Weapon used in the murder of border agents in VT. Bought in Pa. And linked to double homicide 2022

Prosecutors argued on Thursday that a woman from the state of Washington should remain imprisoned in relation to the death of a border patrol agent of the United States in a case that has grown up to cover murders in multiple states.

Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces federal charges of firearms in the death of agent David Maland on January 20. She is accused of opening fire against the agents during a traffic stop in northern Vermont, causing a shooting that also left her partner, Felix Bauckholt, dead.

The State Police of Pennsylvania said on Wednesday that the weapon used in the Vermont shooting was bought by a person of interest in December 31, 2022, murders of Richard and Rita Zajko, who were shot dead at their home in Chester Heights . And both Youngblut and the buyer were in frequent contact with someone who was arrested as part of Pennsylvania’s investigation and is a person of interest in another murder in California, said a federal prosecutor in a judicial presentation.

The US prosecutor Michael Drescher did not explain, but prosecutors can provide more details at a detention hearing for Youngblut on Thursday. Meanwhile, the police and judicial records have thrown some light on the connections.

Youngblut’s lawyer has not responded to requests for comments on charges.

Jack is currently facing the positions of obstructing the application of the law and disorderly conduct in Pennsylvania. The authorities will not say if these charges are related to Zajko’s deaths, but the judicial records show that the police were looking The scene of the murders.

Lasota also has connections with some of the key players in the case of California.

In 2019, theaota and three others were arrested while protested by an event organized by the Rationality Center applied in a camp retirement in Western, according to San Francisco Chronicle. In 2022, two of the others, Emma Borhanian and Jeffrey Leatham, were accused of attacking their owner with a sword in Vallejo, California. The owner, Curtis Lind, survived the attack of November 2022, but was stabbed until death on January 17.

Maximilian Snyder was accused this week for that murder. In November, someone with the same name requested a marriage license with a Teresa Youngblut in Kirkland, Washington. Snyder’s lawyer declined to comment on the charges.

Although the authorities have not publicly identified the person who bought the weapon used in Vermont, the VTDigger news site reported that the federal authorities issued an alert to the firearms dealers who seek information about the purchases made by Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and They described it as a person of interest in the Vermont shooting.

According to a public record database, a Michelle Zajko was registered to vote in 2016 in the same direction of Casa in Pennsylvania as Richard and Rita Zajko. In 2021, a Michelle Zajko bought a medium acre property in Derby, Vermont, a few miles (about 6 kilometers) from the Canadian border. According to city records, the land is not developed.