- 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 by U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank in St. Paul. 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 the initial transfer failed, they forced him to drive to the family’s cabin to retrieve additional hardware wallets, compelling him to transfer over $8 million before fleeing after the victim’s son called 911.
The pair were later arrested near Houston. U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said in a statement that the brothers committed “a brazen and calculated act of violence against the victim and his family,” while the FBI’s Christopher Dotson said they “violated the sanctity of a home” in “a brazen act of violence and greed.”
Meanwhile, Chainalysis counted 46 violent incidents in the first half of 2026 with more than $30 million stolen. The sentencing offers one of the clearest signals yet that U.S. courts are treating crypto wrench attacks as serious violent crime.
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