“Celebrity chef” Guy Fieri and former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar’s tequila brand Santo Spirits is out nearly $1 million in product after two trucks loaded with 24,240 bottles were hijacked in Laredo, Texas on November 9th, Fox News reports on a massive failure by Gov Greg Abbott and Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton to protect American businesses from criminal gangs.
A rep for Hagar told Fox News that “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,” after crossing the border into Texas with “the Santo Blanco and Reposado as well as a specially made Extra Añejo, which was created over the course of 39 months,” is what Fox wrote verbatim, lol.
“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!” said Hagar, who may or may not have told the truckers they can’t drive 55 if they want to make it to Flavortown without getting jacked.