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U.S.|Who Stole 24,240 Bottles of Guy Fieri’s Tequila?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/tequila-trucks-stolen-sammy-hagar-guy-fieri.html
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Two trucks of tequila from the company that Mr. Fieri founded with Sammy Hagar were stolen after being diverted from their planned route, the authorities said.
Nov. 20, 2024, 3:30 p.m. ET
A screenwriter could try pitching this one to a Hollywood executive: a heist movie starring a flamboyant television host and a veteran rock ’n’ roll frontman on the hunt for $1 million worth of stolen tequila.
The crime happened this month after two trucks carrying tequila made by Santo Spirits, a brand founded by Guy Fieri, the celebrity restaurateur and spiky-haired host of “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,” and Sammy Hagar, the former lead singer for Van Halen, crossed from Mexico into Laredo, Texas.
Joe Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department, said that after the trucks arrived at a warehouse in the city, they were picked up by legitimate truck drivers who set out to take them to their intended destination, a warehouse in Pennsylvania.
But somewhere along the route, he said, the drivers received new orders from someone they assumed was in charge of the delivery, directing them to go to a warehouse in Los Angeles because of problems at the warehouse in Pennsylvania. The drivers brought the tequila to what appeared to be a legitimate warehouse in Los Angeles, where they left it.
“That was the last time anybody knew or saw where the tequila was,” Investigator Baeza said, adding that the theft was reported to the Laredo Police Department on Nov. 12.
“All indications are this is a theft,” he said. “I don’t think this is a case of a misplaced load of tequila. I’m pretty sure it’s probably gone.”
