Overview

• The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed kidnapping complaints Thursday naming Raymond Christian Garcia, 23, and Isiah Angelo Garcia, 24, with initial federal appearances set for today as prosecutors seek detention.
• Officials allege the pair bound a Grant, Minn., family at gunpoint for about nine hours, forced cryptocurrency transfers, and drove one victim to a Jacobson cabin to empty a hard‑drive wallet, totaling $8 million.
• Federal filings say Isiah Garcia confessed after arrest, stating the brothers traveled from Texas, held the family at gunpoint, and coerced the transfers.
• Investigators cite a Wendy’s receipt, motel records, surveillance video, and GPS from a Houston‑area rental car that tied the men to the scene, with a recovered AR‑15 matching a box found at their Texas home.
• The incident prompted a large law enforcement search that led Mahtomedi Public Schools to cancel its homecoming game, and the federal valuation contrasts with earlier county figures of roughly $72,000.