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Guy Fieri’s $1M tequila heist was no one-off — here’s how thieves prey on US trucking

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No guns. No midnight ambush.

Just a phone call.

That’s all it took for thieves to hijack two truckloads carrying $1 million worth of Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar’s tequila.

In one of the most high-profile cargo heists in recent memory, criminals posing as company officials used cyber deception to reroute 24,000 bottles of the celebrity duo’s Santo Spirits tequila to a fake Los Angeles warehouse — instead of its intended destination in Pennsylvania.

After duping legitimate drivers in Laredo, Texas, they spoofed the trucks’ GPS, making the booze that took nearly four years to produce disappear without a trace.

“Oh, it hurt. It hurt bad,” TV chef Fieri told “60 Minutes” this week as he revealed details of the plunder.

“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........

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