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Prosecutors Charge Texas Brothers in Minnesota Kidnapping, Seek Extradition

Charging documents cite surveillance, GPS data, a Wendy's receipt plus a recovered rifle as links to the Grant home invasion.

Overview

  • Raymond Christian Garcia, 23, and Isiah Angelo Garcia, 24, were arrested in Texas and are being held on 48-hour holds as Washington County seeks their return to Minnesota.
  • Each man faces three counts of kidnapping, three counts of first-degree burglary and one count of first-degree aggravated robbery, with charges filed Wednesday.
  • Prosecutors say the brothers bound a family at gunpoint for hours, forced cryptocurrency transfers totaling more than $72,000 and drove the father to a family cabin to access another wallet.
  • Investigators recovered an AR-15-style rifle in a suitcase near the scene along with a Wendy's receipt that led to surveillance images of a rental car obtained near Houston and later parked at a Roseville motel.
  • GPS records show the rented vehicle traveled between Texas and Minnesota from Sept. 16–20, was stopped in Oklahoma, and a gun-box serial number found in Texas matched the rifle recovered in Minnesota.