Sammy Hagar and his enterprise companion, the movie star chef Man Fieri, have grow to be victims of organised crime after two vans transporting $1 million price of the pair’s Santo Spirits tequila have been stolen in separate heists close to the Mexican border.
The vans, which have been en route from Santo Spirits’ base on the Tequila el Viejito distillery close to Guadalajara, Mexico, went lacking close to Laredo, Texas, final week, and the cargo – 24,240 bottles of Santo Blanco and Reposado, in addition to bottles of super-expensive Additional Añejo – is nowhere to be discovered.
“For a rising firm like Santo, it is actually a disgrace for one thing like this to occur in the course of our strongest 12 months up to now and proper earlier than the vacations!” Hagar tells Fox Information Digital.
In accordance with the company investigating the crime, the vans have been “illegally double brokered” to a special service, and their GPS trackers spoofed utilizing a GPS emulator utility.
“That is the strangest factor I’ve ever seen within the spirits business over 25 years,” Santo Spirits president Dan Butkus tells Individuals. “I’ve by no means seen something like this. Two of our vans, 4 days aside, to be stolen, it is so out of the extraordinary, out of the norm, that we’re questioning why our vans might have been focused.
“I imply, one is one. However now you have to have double the quantity of individuals to tug off the double heist. It simply appears a lot riskier to take two vans.”
“Anybody that is aware of enterprise is aware of that this can be a big setback for any firm in a massively aggressive market,” says Hagar. “However Man and I’ll survive. Most of all, we’re glad that no one was damage throughout this crime.”
Anybody with details about the whereabouts of the lacking tequila ought to contact the Laredo Police Division, the Los Angeles’ Cargo Legal Apprehension Crew, or the restoration community CargoNet. Fieri is providing a $10,000 reward to anybody capable of find the lacking vans.
In different information, Hagar has introduced that his Greatest Of All Worlds Tour will head to Dolby Stay on the Park MGM in Las Vegas subsequent March. The nine-show residency runs from April 30 till Could 17, and tickets go on normal sale this Friday at 10am PCT.