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Two brothers from Texas held a Grant family hostage at gunpoint for nine hours, forced the father to drive to the family cabin in Jacobson, Minn., and then stole $36,000 in cryptocurrency from the man, according to court documents.
Isiah Angelo Garcia, 24, and Raymond Christian Garcia, 23, both of Waller, Texas, face seven charges in connection with the incident Friday at a house in the 7300 block of Inwood Way North.
The incident caused a “shelter in place” warning to be issued in the immediate area of 75th Street North and Inwood Way in Grant and caused the cancellation of Mahtomedi High School’s homecoming football game against Bloomington Kennedy. The high school is at 8000 75th St. N., about a mile away from where the kidnapping took place.
The incident started around 7:45 a.m. Friday when the Grant man exited his home to take a garbage can to the street, the complaint states.
The Garcia brothers ran up to the man and forced him into his garage at gunpoint, according to the criminal complaint. The man said the brothers were dressed in dark clothing and wore masks. One had an AR-15 style rifle and the other carried a shotgun.
The men then woke up the man’s wife and their son, pointed guns at them and bound them with zip ties, the complaint states. Raymond Garcia held them at gunpoint with the AR-15 in the upstairs bedroom for nine hours, the criminal complaint states.
Isiah Garcia, armed with a shotgun, then forced the man to travel to the family’s cabin near Jacobson, Minn., which is three hours away.
Garcia forced him “at gunpoint to log into his cryptocurrency accounts and transfer at least $36,000 worth of cryptocurrency to an unknown cyberwallet,” the complaint states.
Police learned of the incident when the couple’s son called 911 around 4:45 p.m. Sept. 19 and whispered into the phone that he and his parents had been kidnapped and were being held hostage at gunpoint in their home, according to the criminal complaint.
Deputies reported they located the caller and his mother in a bedroom on the third floor of the house. The bedroom door was tied shut with a wire that needed to be cut to free the victims.
During the invasion, the Garcias were frequently on cellular phones with an unknown third party who directed the (men) on the cryptocurrency transfer process.
The Grant man believed that some of his cryptocurrency account information had been leaked during a data breach. He told the Garcias that “additional funds were on a separate crypto-wallet stored at his family cabin” near Jacobson, Minn., which prompted Isiah Garcia to force him to drive to the cabin at gunpoint and “transfer additional cryptocurrency from the stored wallet to an unknown account,” the complaint states. “The amount of this separate transaction was over $36,000.”
Isiah Garcia and the man then drove back to the house in Grant. “As they entered the neighborhood, (the son) was able to call 911 and report the home invasion,” the complaint states.
Over the weekend, detectives, deputies and K-9 teams from the sheriff’s office and the St Paul Police Department searched the area and recovered weapons near the scene, along with other items of interest along the Gateway Trail.
On Monday, Washington County detectives, with the assistance of the Waller County, Texas, sheriff’s office, arrested the Garcias.
Each has been charged in Washington County District Court with three counts of kidnapping, three counts of first-degree burglary and aggravated robbery.