Sammy Hagar Offers Update on Stolen Tequila Trucks
Sammy Hagar said that one of the trucks from the theft of Santo tequila, the spirit he owns with Guy Fieri, has been recovered.
The Red Rocker told Fox News that while one truck has been found, ” … We’ll never find the second one because it supposedly has been dispersed into the system.”
He noted that the heist was “well planned” and that, “There was some kind of organization, I can’t talk too much about it, but we’re finding out who it was.”
As previously reported, a shipment carrying $1 million worth of Santo tequila was hijacked after crossing into the United States from Mexico. The hijacking itself took place in Laredo, Texas. At the time, a rep for Hagar told Fox News, “It appears this was an organized crime effort where the trucks were illegally double brokered to different carriers who transferred the product to their trucks.”
Hagar added in his own statement, “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! Anyone that knows business knows that this is a huge setback for any company in a hugely competitive market. But Guy and I will survive. Most of all, we’re glad that nobody was hurt during this crime.”
Meanwhile, Fieri told People that about 24,240 bottles of Santo are now missing. Among those bottles was a special edition extra añejo that took 39 months to make. There is currently a plan to offer a $10,000 reward to recover the special edition extra añejo, considering how long it took to produce.
Fieri said, in part, “We’ve worked so hard … We just had all this momentum, and now whatever’s on the shelf is all people are going to get.”
