A Maryland judge has ordered a joint trial for three members of the fringe group known as the Zizians—alleged leader Jack “Ziz” LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank—on state charges of trespassing, illegal gun possession and LSD possession. The decision, issued during a motions hearing in Allegany County Circuit Court, consolidates cases that were previously scheduled to be heard separately. The trio were arrested in February after a landowner near the Maryland-Pennsylvania line reported two box trucks parked on his rural property. Police said they found the defendants camping inside the vehicles, dressed in tactical gear and carrying several firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and psychedelic drugs. Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment last month adding the LSD count once laboratory tests were completed. Defense lawyers argued that prosecutors are slowing the proceedings while federal agents continue a broader investigation into the Zizians, a group that law-enforcement officials have linked to six killings across three states since 2023. Judge Michael Twigg nonetheless granted the defendants’ request for a combined trial, which the state estimates could last at least two weeks. The case overlaps with multiple federal inquiries. LaSota is separately charged with being an armed fugitive, while Zajko faces federal firearms allegations in Vermont tied to the January shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. No trial date has been set in Maryland, but the defendants remain in local custody as pre-trial motions continue.