Armed Crypto Kidnappers Face up to 20 Years After Forcing $8M Digital Asset Transfer
A family was held at gunpoint for more than eight hours and forced to transfer more than $8 million in cryptocurrency in a violent Minnesota home invasion that has now resulted in guilty pleas from the two men who admitted carrying out the scheme The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and federal prosecutors in Minnesota announced on June 18, 2026, that Isiah Angelo Garcia, 25, and Raymond Christian Garcia, 24, had pleaded guilty in connection with an armed cryptocurrency robbery that targeted a family in Grant, Minnesota. The Waller, Texas, brothers each pleaded guilty to one count of Interference with Commerce by Robbery.