Guy Fieri reveals new details into the criminals who stole $1M of his tequila: It hurt bad

The road to Flavortown can be dangerous!World famous chef Guy Fieri revealed in a new interview that savvy criminals carrying out a complex shipping scheme were behind the brazen heist of $1 million worth of tequila that he co-owns with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar.The goateed gourmand detailed last November’s high-proof highway robbery of 24,000 bottles of booze to CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and said he was eventually able to get some of the stolen party fuel back on the shelves.“Oh, it hurt.

It hurt bad,” the Food Network superstar said in the interview that aired Sunday.Two truckloads of his Santo Tequila — including one special small batch that took two years to produce — disappeared while on the road from western Mexico to Pennsylvania.When Fieri found out that haulers had been hijacked, he didn’t think of a discreet theft carried out by complex crooks but instead of a classic strong-arm robbery depicted in many movies.“All my mind goes to is ‘Goodfellas,’” the “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” host said, referring to the classic mafia flick.“That’s what I’m thinking is happening.And [the company’s president] said ‘No, no, no, no the trucks, they were appropriated but we don’t know where they are,’” Fieri recounted.“I’m like, it’s not a needle in a haystack.

I mean, this is a semi-tractor truck,” said Fieri.“My mind is swimming in exactly how do you lose, you know, that many thousands of bottles of tequila.”The champion of the common chef later learned that Santo Tequila fell prey to international criminals who orchestrated a complex shell-game scheme, according to CBS News.Dan Butkus, CEO of Santo Spirits, told the outlet that the company hired a trucking contractor, who in turn hired two subcontractors, to haul the shipments from Guadalajara, Mexico, through Laredo, Texas, and to Lansdale, Penn.Those subcontractors turned out to be fake — complete with phony letterheads, email addresses, and pho...