The Brief
- Two brothers from Texas pleaded guilty to charges related to a 2025 armed robbery of a family in Grant, Minn., which included the theft of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency.
- Prosecutors say the men held a family at gunpoint and traveled to the family’s cabin before forcing the victim to transfer the funds.
- The incident resulted in a shelter-in-place order and the cancellation of a local high school homecoming football game.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The armed kidnapping and robbery of a family in Grant, Minn., that canceled a high school football game and saw more than $8 million in cryptocurrency being stolen resulted in guilty pleas from two Texas brothers who admitted to threatening the family at gunpoint.
Isiah Angelo Garcia, 25, and Raymond Christian Garcia, 24, both of Waller, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count each of interference with commerce by robbery.
Armed cryptocurrency kidnapping guilty pleas
The backstory
According to the court records, a 911 call was received at approximately 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 19 from someone in Grant, Minn., stating that he and his family had been kidnapped and were being held hostage at gunpoint in their home…