Sammy Hagar’s spirit company robbed of $1 million worth of tequila near the Mexican border
Sammy Hagar and his business partner, celebrity chef Guy Fieri, lost 24,240 bottles of their Santo Spirits tequila when two trucks transporting them were stolen in separate heists near the Mexican border.
The trucks were travelling from Santo Spirits’ base at the Tequila el Viejito distillery near Guadalajara, Mexico when they went missing near Laredo, Texas, last week in two separate heists that were carried out four days apart. The 24,240 bottles of Santo Blanco and Reposado, as well as bottles of notoriously pricey Extra Añejo – which took 39 months to make – have vanished, losing the business approximately $1 million.
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The agency investigating the crime have said that the trucks were “illegally double brokered” to a different carrier, and their GPS trackers were replicated using a GPS emulator application.
“For a growing company like Santo, it’s really a shame for something like this to happen in the middle of our strongest year to date and right before the holidays,” Hagar tells Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, Santo Spirits president Dan Butkus tells People: “This is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in the spirits industry over 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this. Two of our trucks, four days apart, to be stolen, it’s so out of the ordinary, out of the norm, that we’re wondering why our trucks may have been targeted.
“I mean, one is one. But now you’ve got to have double the amount of people to pull off the double heist. It just seems so much riskier to take two trucks.”
“Anyone that knows business knows that this is a huge setback for any company in a hugely competitive market,” says Hagar. “But Guy and I will survive. Most of all, we’re glad that nobody was hurt during this crime.”
Fieri is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can help them track down the missing trucks. Anyone with information about the missing tequila has been directed to contact the Laredo Police Department, the Los Angeles’ Cargo Criminal Apprehension Team, or the recovery network CargoNet.
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