In November 2019, Jack LaSota, 34 and who goes by she/her pronouns; Emma Borhanian, 31; Gwen Danielson; and Alexander Leatham, 29, were arrested at a protest outside a northern California retreat center where a rationalist group was holding an event.
The killing of US border patrol agent David Maland near the Canadian border in January and five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California have been tied to a cultlike group.
In 2022, landlord Curtis Lind went to court to evict Borhanian, LaSota, Leatham and other tenants who had stopped paying rent at a Vallejo, California, property.
Maland, 44, was killed in a 20 January shootout following a traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont, a small town about 20 miles (32km) from the Canadian border.
Two days before the 15 November eviction deadline, prosecutors say Leatham, Borhanian and Suri Dao attacked him.
