According to a Santo Tequila spokesperson, the contents of one of two trucks carrying Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri‘s tequila have been recovered a month after a $1 million heist, reports Charles Swanson of The Press Democrat.
On Monday, December 16, Hagar informed Fox News that one of the two stolen trucks, which had been carrying over 4,000 cases of the company’s tequila at the time of the theft, had been recovered.
“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,” Hagar said during an interview at a benefit hosted by METALLICA’s All Within My Hands Foundation in Los Angeles, California.
Santo Tequila, co-founded by Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar in 2019, announced on Wednesday that one of the two trucks containing their tequila, including their highly anticipated Extra Anejo, has been recovered in Los Angeles. The trucks, carrying a shipment destined for Pennsylvania, vanished after crossing the border from Mexico into Texas on November 9th. Santo Tequila‘s CEO, Dan Butkus, revealed that the trucks were illegally double brokered, likely leading to their theft by a criminal organization.
Authorities recovered one truck shortly after the theft in a notorious Los Angeles criminal cargo area, where the stolen tequila was unloaded. Besides the 40 cases of Extra Anejo, the thieves also made off with 2,000 cases each of Blanco and Reposado tequila, resulting in losses exceeding $1 million.
Karraker stated that no arrests have been made because both the warehouse where the tequila was found and the truck drivers who transported it were unaware that the product was stolen. They were simply responding to requests to ship and store the tequila.
Reeder, the visionary behind Metal Addicts, has transformed his lifelong passion for metal into a thriving online community for metal aficionados. As a fervent devotee of black metal, Reeder is captivated by its dark, atmospheric, and often unorthodox soundscapes.