Posted on 11/18/2024 12:58:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri are facing a “huge setback” after two trucks for their jointly owned tequila company were hijacked, with over $1 million in product stolen.
The trucks were transporting 4,040 cases of Santo tequila, including blanco, reposado and extra añejo varieties, the latter of which has the highest price point. The robbery reportedly took place in Laredo, Texas, just after the big rigs had crossed the border from Mexico.
"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," a representative for Hagar explained to 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 Red Rocker noted in a statement of his own. "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."
Hagar and Fieri teamed up to launch Santo in 2019. Before that, the former Van Halen singer found huge success with his Cabo Wabo tequila brand, which he sold in 2007.
Guy Fieri Says Robbery Was 'Like a Movie' In an interview with People Magazine, Fieri said that he and Hagar found out about the theft on Nov. 14.
"We've worked so hard," the celebrity chef bemoaned. "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."
As far as motive, Fieri suggested that "someone could be trying to break the momentum" the company has generated. Though it seems unlikely that the stolen tequila will be recovered, Fieri is offering a $10,000 reward if they can at least get back the extra añejo, which takes four years to make.
"It's like a movie,” Fieri said of the hijacking. “I never in a million years thought this was coming down the pike like this, but it's real."
Maybe he can hop on his Bad Motor Scooter and chase them down.
Several neighbors had them in the SF Bay Area .
They are also called century plants. They grow a quite tall flower spike that is very abundant and showy.
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
We had one in our front yard in Pantego, TX. Between Arlington and Handley/Ft. Worth.
I've seen Hagar solo and with Van Halen, and Van Halen with Roth. Hagar was a much better performer at the shows I saw. Last time I saw Roth was the 1984 tour. He was horrible, and apparently drunk. Hagar did lack Roth's flamboyant style, costumes and showmanship, but I wasn't really a fan of that aspect of 80's rock.
trucks were illegally double brokered
Brokers said that double brokering has been around since shippers started relying on brokerages to find trucks to haul their freight. Most agree that it’s legal as long as the shipper consents to the arrangement and the carrier hired to haul the load is also privy to the details and is paid.
However, freight brokers also agree that double brokering is fraught with risk and becomes illegal when a shipper specifies that its loads are not to be re-brokered.
Specific regions in Mexico have the rights to tequila. It cannot be produced outside of these regions. All of the tequila in the U.S. is imported.
Wasn’t me.
That tequila’s on Space Station #5 by now, wonder how long they can Make it Last?
I was definitely nowhere near Texas at this time.
Just call it "Agaveliqua". Use a completely different formula, you know, don't add all the sugar and other crap that they add to tequila.
I lived in Texas for ten years and stupidly visited Laredo/Nuevo Laredo one time. When I think of Laredo it reminds me of the scene from No Country for Old Men where Sheriff Ed Tom Bell witnesses the drug gang fleeing the motel where they just killed Llewellyn Moss.
Laredo is a place you want to stay away from.
What about tequiza? I think that’s tequila mixed with cerveza (beer).
Maybe it’s about keeping the US federal government from taxing it into oblivion
No problem. Don’t worry about it.
I watch Tales of Wells Fargo quite a bit. Good show and Jim Hardie always gets his man.
Pass.
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