A federal judge has ordered a competency evaluation for the leader of the cultlike Zizians group that has been linked to six deaths.

A member of a group known to outsiders as Zizians that is linked to six deaths was bailed out of jail in Maryland.

Seven people with ties to the group known as Zizians remain jailed in three states, but so far none of their criminal cases have gone to trial.

Three members of a violent cultlike group will be tried together on charges of trespassing and illegal gun and drug possession in rural western Maryland.

The leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians that is linked to six killings has been ordered held without bail, as were two others.