MINNEAPOLIS – Raymond Christian Garcia, 23, and Isiah Angelo Garcia, 24, had been charged federally by grievance with Kidnapping for partaking in a kidnapping and cryptocurrency heist the place they held a household at gunpoint for 9 hours and stole $8 million in crypto foreign money, introduced Performing U.S. Legal professional Joseph H. Thompson. The crime pressured Mahtomedi Public Faculties to cancel its homecoming soccer recreation for the protection of its neighborhood.
“A violent kidnapping that stole $8 million and silenced a homecoming recreation isn’t just against the law. It’s a blow to the sense of security of everybody in Minnesota,” mentioned Performing U.S. Legal professional Joseph H. Thompson. “This isn’t regular. Minnesotans mustn’t settle for wild violence and thievery as regular. Each Minnesotan deserves to reside in peace and a life unaffected by rampant crime.”
On September 19, 2025, at 4:45 pm, the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace Dispatch Heart obtained a 911 name from an grownup male who reported that he and his household had been victims of an armed theft and kidnapping by two grownup male suspects and had been held hostage at gunpoint inside their residence in Grant, Minnesota. The 2 kidnappers had been the Garcia brothers. The 911 caller reported that he, his father (Sufferer 1), and his mom had been held hostage.
At 7:45 am that morning, Sufferer 1 was taking out a rubbish can to the road when the Garcia brothers out of the blue appeared and pointed an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun at Sufferer 1. The Garcia brothers took Sufferer 1 into the storage the place they certain his fingers with zip ties. They then introduced Sufferer 1 into the home. The Garcia brothers wakened Sufferer 1’s spouse and grownup son at gunpoint. Additionally they zip tied their fingers and compelled them to lie on the ground.
Defendant Raymond Garcia held the spouse and son in their dwelling for 9 hours. Raymond Garcia was armed with the AR-15-style rifle for the period of the kidnapping. About quarter-hour earlier than the son referred to as 911, Raymond Garcia left the house out the again door with the AR-15-style rifle, heading in the direction of the tree line. Raymond Garcia returned to the house shortly thereafter, with out the rifle.
In the meantime, whereas Raymond Garcia held the spouse and son hostage, defendant Isiah Garcia pressured Sufferer 1 at gunpoint to log into his cryptocurrency accounts. Isiah Garcia demanded that Sufferer 1 switch giant quantities of cryptocurrency right into a cryptocurrency pockets that Isiah Garcia offered. Through the theft, Sufferer 1 noticed each Garcia brothers incessantly making cellphone calls to an unknown third social gathering, who gave the impression to be offering the data associated to the cryptocurrency accounts and transfers.
By this third social gathering, the Garcia brothers turned conscious that Sufferer 1 had extra cryptocurrency funds. They demanded the cash. Sufferer 1 defined that the remaining funds had been on a tough drive-style cryptocurrency pockets that was saved at a household cabin roughly three hours away.
Isiah Garcia, armed with the shotgun, then pressured Sufferer 1 into Sufferer 1’s truck. Isiah Garcia drove the truck and Sufferer 1 to the household’s cabin to retrieve the onerous drive. All of the whereas, Raymond Garcia held Sufferer 1’s spouse and son hostage with the AR-15-style rifle. On the cabin, Sufferer 1 transferred the remaining funds to the cryptocurrency pockets offered by Isiah Garcia. Isiah Garcia then drove Sufferer 1 again in the direction of Sufferer 1’s dwelling.
In complete, the Garcia brothers pressured Sufferer 1 to switch $8 million price of cryptocurrency to their wallets.
As Isiah Garcia and Sufferer 1 had been returning to the house, Sufferer 1’s son used the moments that Raymond Garcia left the house to name 911. Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene following the 911 name and located the spouse and son zip tied in the home. As they arrived, Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies noticed a person, later recognized as Raymond Garcia, working out the again door. When regulation enforcement searched the realm across the dwelling, they positioned a suitcase in the tree line. Within the suitcase, they discovered a disassembled AR-15-style rifle, AR-15 ammunition, in addition to clothes gadgets and drinks.
A number of squads responded to the 911 name, some of whom unknowingly handed Isiah Garcia and Sufferer 1 as they pulled over to permit the emergency automobiles to cross. Isiah Garcia turned the truck round, parked it close by, and walked in the direction of a close-by center college parking zone. Isiah Garcia ditched the shotgun in a close-by discipline. To guard the protection of the neighborhood, Mahtomedi Public Faculties was pressured to cancel its homecoming soccer recreation in response to the continuing regulation enforcement exercise close to the campus.
Utilizing a Wendy’s receipt positioned in the suitcase recovered behind Sufferer 1’s home, regulation enforcement was capable of decide that Isiah Garcia had rented a white Chevrolet three days previous to the kidnapping, close to Houston, Texas. Legislation enforcement additionally positioned video surveillance exhibiting that Raymond Garcia rented a Motel 6 room in Roseville, Minnesota, shortly earlier than the kidnapping. Legislation enforcement noticed that, shortly after regulation enforcement responded to the scene of the kidnapping, the white Malibu returned to the Motel 6. The following day, regulation enforcement noticed the automobile on cameras in Oklahoma. On September 21, 2024, regulation enforcement tracked the automobile again to the house of the Garcia brothers in Waller, Texas. After returning to Texas, Raymond Garcia reported that his AR-15-style firearm that he used in the kidnapping and theft had been stolen.
On September 22, 2025, regulation enforcement arrested the Garcia brothers in Texas. As soon as in custody, Isiah Garcia confessed. He admitted that he and his brother Raymond Garcia had pushed to Minnesota, held Sufferer 1 and his household at gunpoint, tied them up utilizing zip ties, and pushed Sufferer 1 to the household cabin. On September 23, 2025, the Garcia brothers had been charged by grievance in Washington County, Minnesota with three counts of kidnapping with a firearm, one rely of first-degree aggravated theft, and three counts of first-degree housebreaking.
On September 24, 2025, the Garcia brothers had been each charged in a federal grievance with kidnapping. Each defendants will make their preliminary appearances in federal court docket at this time and the federal government will request their detention pending trial.
“As alleged in the grievance, the Garcia brothers terrorized a Minnesota household in their very own dwelling, kidnapping one member of the family whereas holding the remaining of the household hostage in order to conduct a brazen cryptocurrency theft,” mentioned FBI Minneapolis Particular Agent in Cost Alvin M. Winston, Sr. “This workplace, along with our federal, state and native regulation enforcement companions in Minnesota and in Texas, will work tirelessly to carry accountable these answerable for this horrific crime.”
These circumstances end result from an investigation carried out by the FBI and the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace extends its profound sympathies to the victims and lauds them for his or her bravery and fast motion in calling 911. The U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace is grateful for its partnership with the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Washington County Legal professional’s Workplace. The fast and wonderful federal-state cooperation in this case was important to the submitting of federal expenses.
Assistant U.S. Legal professional Rebecca E. Kline is prosecuting the case.
A grievance is merely an allegation, and the defendants are presumed harmless till confirmed responsible past an inexpensive doubt in a court docket of regulation.
