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$8 Million Crypto Kidnapping Lands Texas Brothers 15-Year Prison Terms

Decrypt · Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:16:02 GMT

Hype 18/100 · Market impact 30/100 · Breaking 49/100

Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in cryptocurrency, in a case described as one of the clearest prosecutions of a wrench attack, in which a victim is physically coerced into transferring cryptocurrency.

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