Sammy Hagar and his business partner Guy Fieri are going to be “really careful” following the theft of $1 million worth of product from their tequila brand as it crossed the border from Mexico to Texas.
In a new interview, Hagar talked about the incident saying, “It was a heist. It was a very programmed thing. There was some kind of organization, I can’t talk too much about it, but we’re finding out who it was. It was well planned, the truck drivers… they didn’t know anything, they just got hired to pick the stuff up, they had fake cellphones and fake GPS, and then they just sent them to drop it off. We found one truck, so we’re getting somewhere, but we’ll never find the second one because it supposedly has been dispersed into the system.”
The missing trucks were carrying 24,240 bottles of Santo Blanco and Reposado, as well as a specially made Extra Añejo, which was created over the course of 39 months.
Hagar noted, “It’s really ugly. Santo is a small brand, that really put us back for Christmas, that was our load for the holidays that we were going to sell. We not only lost it, we have to pay to have it recreated. It’s pretty bad stuff.”
