Two Texas brothers admit to $8 million crypto robbery after holding family at gunpoint, face up to 20 years in prison
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Two brothers pleaded guilty this week to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for more than eight hours during a September 2025 home invasion, federal prosecutors said.

Isiah Angelo Garcia, 25, and Raymond Christian Garcia, 24, both of Waller, Texas, each pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of interference with commerce by robbery before U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery in Minneapolis, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota.

The brothers traveled from Texas to Grant, Minnesota, on Sept. 19, 2025, where they held the victim and his family at gunpoint in their home, according to court documents. They zip-tied the family and demanded access to their cryptocurrency accounts.

Isiah Garcia then drove one of the victims to the family's cabin in northern Minnesota, where he forced him to retrieve additional cryptocurrency storage devices and transfer the funds, prosecutors said. The brothers ultimately forced the victim to transfer more than $8 million in crypto over the course of the scheme.

The ordeal ended after the victim's son called 911. The Garcias fled the area, but investigators traced items left behind at the home, used them to identify the brothers, and arrested them near Houston.

Both defendants admitted to using firearms to threaten the victims. They agreed to pay more than $8 million in restitution and face up to 20 years in federal prison at sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled.

The case fits a wider pattern of armed robberies and kidnappings targeting crypto holders.

A Florida man pleaded guilty earlier this month to a separate bitcoin-related carjacking and kidnapping scheme, and French authorities have charged dozens of people this year amid a surge of so-called "wrench attacks" across the country.

"No one should ever feel unsafe in their own home," stated FBI Minneapolis Field Office Special Agent in Charge Christopher Dotson, who said the violence displayed by the Garcia brothers would always be aggressively investigated by the FBI and its law enforcement partners.