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Guy Fieri Details $1 Million Santo Tequila Heist Orchestrated Through Fake Carriers

A '60 Minutes' interview outlines a double-brokering scam with spoofed GPS that fooled the supply chain.

Overview

  • Two semitrailers carrying about 24,000 bottles worth more than $1 million vanished in November 2024 while traveling from Laredo, Texas, to Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
  • Criminals posed as legitimate carriers in a double-brokering scheme, using forged documents, emails, and GPS spoofing to fabricate tracking updates.
  • Roughly 11,000 bottles were found in a Southeast Los Angeles warehouse three weeks later, while the second truckload remains missing.
  • CargoNet and the Los Angeles Police Department say the theft fits an internationally organized, cyber-enabled cargo network linked in reports to Eastern Europe and Armenia.
  • Santo Spirits lost a years-in-the-making Extra Añejo release and enacted layoffs as the disruption constrained inventory heading into the holiday season.