$8 Million Crypto Kidnapping Lands Texas Brothers 15-Year Prison Terms
According to reporting by Decrypt Financial Technology, Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours, forcing the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto, in one of the clearest “wrench attack” prosecutions yet.
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According to reporting by Decrypt Financial Technology, Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours, forcing the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto, in one of the clearest “wrench attack” prosecutions yet.
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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.
When he failed to transfer the amount they expected, they forced him to drive one of the brothers to the family’s cabin in upstate Minnesota to retrieve additional hardware wallets and move the funds. In total, they compelled him to transfer over $8 million. The pair fled after the victim’s son called 911, and were later arrested near Houston.
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