Texas Brothers Sentenced for Kidnapping and Extorting $8 Million in Cryptocurrency

Two Texas men, Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, were sentenced to 180 months and 186 months in prison, respectively, for armed kidnapping of a family and extorting cryptocurrency in Minnesota in September 2025. The two pleaded guilty in June 2026 and were sentenced on October 29. Court documents reveal that on September 19, 2025, they broke into the victims' home, bound the family with zip ties, and held them at gunpoint for over nine hours, forcing the victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency accounts. When the amount transferred by the victims did not meet their expectations, the two further kidnapped the victims and drove them to their cabin in northern Minnesota to retrieve more cryptocurrency storage devices and complete the transfer, ultimately coercing the victims to transfer over $8 million in cryptocurrency. After the victims' son called 911, the two fled but were later arrested near Houston, Texas.

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