Sammy Hagar says one truck has been found after million-dollar tequila heist at border town

"It was a heist. It was a very programmed thing," Hagar told Fox News Digital at Metallica's All Within My Hands Foundation presents The Helping Hands Concert & Auction 2024 at L.A.'s YouTube theater.

"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."

Hagar and Fieri are co-owners of the tequila brand Santo Spirits, which had two freight trucks carrying $1 million in product stolen last month in Laredo, Texas, after transferring it across the border from Mexico.

"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. We not only lost it, we have to pay to have it recreated. It's pretty bad stuff," Hagar told Fox News Digital.

"But we're strong," he 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."

Hagar's rep told Fox News Digital at the time of the theft, "It appears this was an organized crime effort where the trucks were illegally double brokered to different carriers who transferred the product to their trucks" after they crossed over the border. 

Fieri told the outlet that workers at their Mexican distillery were "on a 24/7 schedule right now" to replace the stolen tequila.

However, Fieri said it was unlikely that they would be able to fully replenish their tequila supply in time for the holidays, during which Santo Spirits typically sees its highest volume of sales.

"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," he added. "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."

Hagar said the brand will definitely be more cautious in the future when it comes to shipping.

"We'll pay more attention," the 77-year-old said. "You think everything's OK, you think, 'Hey, the truck came across the border, everything's cool.' Nope, it came across the border and it wasn't cool. So, we're really careful now."

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The rock star is proud of the Santo brand, explaining, "We cut the agaves tight, most people leave a bunch of green on there, and green is bitter. They also use younger agaves and they're bitter, and you have to add sugars and things to it, coloring. We don't do any of that, we leave it in the barrel until it gets the color we want, the flavor we want, everything is the best it can be done." 

"I've known these guys forever, they opened for Van Halen on the Monsters of Rock tour," he shared. "They hadn't broke [through] yet, and I got them on that tour because I'm a Bay Area guy and I knew who they were, and I said, 'This band's gonna be big.' And they are big. So, James [Hetfield, lead singer of Metallica] asked me to do this and I said absolutely."

He added, "I'm about two things: I'm about feeding people and education, and children, and this is the perfect, perfect place to do that."

Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this report.