Sammy Hagar announced good news about $1 million stolen from his tequila business.
“It was a heist. It was a very programmed thing,” the Red Rocker spoke to Fox News Digital at Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation event at L.A.’s YouTube Theater.
He added, “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,” Hagar explained.
Hagar and Guy Fieri co-own Santo Spirits, a tequila brand. Last month, two trucks with $1 million worth of their products were stolen in Laredo, Texas, after crossing the border from Mexico.
The stolen trucks had 24,240 bottles of Santo Blanco, Reposado, and a special Extra Añejo aged for 39 months. “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,” Sammy’s representative told Fox News.
“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!” the musician shared in a separate statement.
He noted, “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.”
Fieri told People that he and Hagar found out about the theft on November 14 and stated, “We just had all this momentum, and now whatever’s on the shelf is all people are going to get.”
The chef also worried that the theft might be meant to hurt the company’s success. Even though it’s unlikely to recover the stolen items, he’s offering a $10,000 reward for the return of the Extra Añejo tequila, which takes four years to make.
