Overview

• Fieri and Santo Spirits CEO Dan Butkus described on 60 Minutes how two truckloads of tequila worth about $1 million vanished in November 2024 after crossing into Texas en route to Pennsylvania.
• Fraudsters posing as legitimate carriers won the job through double brokering, using fake letterheads, email accounts and phone numbers to impersonate trucking firms.
• The thieves sent a staged breakdown video and spoofed GPS data that showed a truck near the Lansdale warehouse, delaying discovery that the shipment had been diverted.
• Investigators located roughly 11,000 bottles in a Los Angeles warehouse about a month later, and the recovered stock was inspected and cleared for sale, while the second truck remains missing.
• Fieri said the loss forced layoffs and empty shelves before the holiday quarter, and Santo has since tightened safeguards as law enforcement and CargoNet warn of a broader rise in cyber-enabled cargo theft.