The country is dealing with a crime wave under Joe Biden.
No one is safe anymore.
And Guy Fieri was in a bad spot after the Mexican drug cartels pulled off this scary heist.
Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar have $1 million worth of tequila stolen at the border
The southern border has become total chaos during the border crisis that President Joe Biden created.
Food Network star Guy Fieri and rocker Sammy Hagar were the victims of a daring heist at the southern border.
The pair are business partners of the upstart tequila brand Santo Spirits.
A pair of semi trucks carrying more than $1 million worth of tequila that Santo Spirits produced in Mexico were robbed right after they crossed the border in Laredo, Texas.
Thieves made off with 24,240 bottles of tequila that were set to hit shelves across the country for Christmas.
Hagar told Fox News that he and Fieri would have to be “really careful” after the heist.
“It was a heist. It was a very programmed thing,” Hagar said. “There was some kind of organization, I can’t talk too much about it, but we’re finding out who it was.”
The thieves planned a sophisticated heist.
“It was well planned, the truck drivers . . . they didn’t know anything, they just got hired to pick the stuff up, they had fake cellphones and fake GPS, and then they just sent them to drop it off,” Hagar explained. “We found one truck, so we’re getting somewhere, but we’ll never find the second one because it supposedly has been dispersed into the system.”
Guy Fieri stunned by tequila heist
Fieri said that Santo Spirits was working around the clock to make up for the stolen product.
“We’ve worked so hard,” Fieri said. “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.”
Hager said that their tequila company was working hard to recover.
“It’s really ugly. Santo is a small brand, that really put us back for Christmas, that was our load for the holidays that we were going to sell,” Hagar stated. “We not only lost it, we have to pay to have it recreated. It’s pretty bad stuff.”
The brand is a side project for the celebrities so they were able to avoid financial disaster.
“But we’re strong,” Hagar added. “Guy Fieri and I, we don’t really do this for a living, so it didn’t take our bread and butter off the table, but it put a little dent in our pocket.”
A spokesman for Hagar said that the heist appeared to be the work of “organized crime.”
Santo Spirits president Dan Butkus was worried about the effect it would have on the company’s employees.
“Our distiller is an independent distiller who’s dependent on our sales for his livelihood and that of his team,” Butkus said. “My sales team, my marketing team, the entire Santo Spirits team is dependent upon these sales. That’s sort of the piece that’s most hurtful to me. We’ve got to support these people both at the distillery and in the U.S., and we can’t do it right now without the revenue from these cases.”
The southern border has become a lawless war zone where the Mexican drug cartels have operational control.
