Two Brothers Sentenced in Minnesota Cryptocurrency Kidnapping Case Involving More Than $8 Million

深潮 TechFlow reported on October 30 that, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, brothers Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia from Texas were sentenced on October 29 by U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank to 180 months and 186 months in prison, respectively, for the September 2025 armed kidnapping of a family and extortion of cryptocurrency in Grant, Minnesota. The two pleaded guilty on June 18, 2026.

According to court documents, the two traveled from Texas to Minnesota on September 19, 2025, held the victim's family at gunpoint in the victim's home, restrained them with zip ties for more than nine hours, and demanded that they transfer cryptocurrency. Because the initial transfer amount did not meet expectations, the two coerced the victim to drive to the victim's vacation home in northern Minnesota, retrieve additional cryptocurrency storage devices, and continue transferring, ultimately forcing the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency. After the victim's son called police, the two fled the scene and were later arrested near Houston, Texas.

Source: 深潮 TechFlow