Two Texas brothers get about 15 years each for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours and taking over $8 million in crypto

Two brothers from Waller, Texas, have been sentenced to about 15 years each in federal prison for an armed robbery in which they held a Minnesota family hostage and took more than $8 million in cryptocurrency, CBS Minnesota and MPR News report.

U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank sentenced Raymond Christian Garcia to 180 months and Isiah Angelo Garcia to 186 months, according to CBS Minnesota. Both pleaded guilty in June to interference with commerce by robbery.

According to prosecutors and court reports, the brothers ambushed the father outside the family's home in Grant, northeast of St. Paul, on September 19, 2025, and held him, his wife and their adult son at gunpoint for more than nine hours. They forced him to log into his crypto accounts and transfer funds. When they learned he kept more in a hardware wallet at a cabin about three hours away, Isiah Garcia took him there at gunpoint while Raymond Garcia stayed with the family, according to the reports. The son called 911 and the brothers fled. Investigators traced them to Texas using a fast-food receipt, a rental car and surveillance video.

U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said the brothers "committed a brazen and calculated act of violence against the victim and his family," MPR News reports.