According to CoinMeta, on October 30th, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that two brothers from Texas, Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, were sentenced to 180 months (15 years) and 186 months (15 and a half years) in prison respectively for their involvement in a gun robbery and kidnapping case involving over 8 million dollars in cryptocurrency. According to court documents, on September 19, 2025, the two men kidnapped a family in Minnesota, held them captive for over 9 hours, forced them to transfer their cryptocurrency assets, and went to another location to retrieve additional cryptocurrency storage devices, ultimately obtaining over 8 million dollars in cryptocurrency. They then fled the scene and were arrested near Houston, Texas, having previously pleaded guilty in June 2026.