Appears to be like like somebody took a flawed flip at Flavortown.
Two vehicles loaded with 24,240 bottles of Santo Tequila — the label co-owned by movie star chef Man Fieri and former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar — went lacking final weekend following an obvious heist in Laredo, Texas.
It took 39 months to make all that tequila, which was valued at $1 million, experiences PEOPLE.com, which spoke to Fieri in regards to the appropriated alcohol.
“We’ve worked so hard,” mentioned Fieri. “This is our best year we’ve ever had in Santo. We just had all this momentum, and now, whatever’s on the shelf is all people are going to get.”
The 2 vehicles hauling 440 mixed instances of Santo had been hijacked on both Nov. 9 or Nov. 10, the Meals Community star added.
He and his “Red Rocker” accomplice solely realized in regards to the shanghaied vehicles on Thursday.
Fieri mentioned it comes at a horrible time: The vacation season is usually Santo’s busiest time.
Fieri mentioned it’s doable “someone could be trying to break the momentum” Santo has been gaining available in the market.
Taking two vehicles, and never simply the one, additionally gave the goateed chef pause.
“I mean, one is one. But now you’ve got to have double the amount of people to pull off the double heist,” Fieri mentioned. “It just seems so much riskier to take two trucks.”
Laredo police, Los Angeles’ Cargo Prison Apprehension Group and a federal group known as CargoNet are investigating the incident, the outlet additionally reported.
Fieri has put up a $10,000 reward for details about the heist.
“It’s like a movie,” he mentioned. “I never in a million years thought this was coming down the pike like this, but it’s real.”
