$8 Million Crypto Kidnapping Lands Texas Brothers 15-Year Prison Terms

In brief

• Texas brothers Raymond and Isiah Garcia were sentenced to a combined 326 months for a September 2025 home-invasion robbery that forced a Minnesota man to hand over more than $8 million in crypto; both pleaded guilty in June.
• The pair zip-tied the family and held them at gunpoint for over nine hours, even driving the victim to a cabin to retrieve hardware wallets, before fleeing and being arrested near Houston.
• Chainalysis logged 46 violent incidents against crypto holders and $30 million-plus stolen in early 2026.

Two Texas brothers have been sentenced to a combined 326 months in prison for a violent home-invasion robbery in which they held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for hours and forced the father to hand over more than $8 million in cryptocurrency.

Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, both of Waller, Texas, were sentenced on Thursday to 180 months and 186 months respectively, or 15 and 15-and-a-half years, by U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank in St. Paul, according to the Justice Department. Both had pleaded guilty in June.

According to court documents, the brothers traveled from Texas to Grant, Minnesota, and on Sept. 19, 2025, broke into the victim’s home, zip-tied the family and held them at gunpoint for more than nine hours while demanding access to the father’s crypto accounts.