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Ferndale’s most famous former child pretzel salesman, Food Network star Guy Fieri, was featured on the latest episode of CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” where he told reporter Sharyn Alfonsi about the heist of some 24,000 bottles of Santo Tequila, produced by a company he co-owns with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar.

In the segment, Fieri describes how criminals created fake trucking companies in a “double-brokering” scheme that allowed them to divert two full semi-truckloads of the Mexican spirit as it made its way into the U.S.

Half of the looted booze was eventually recovered, but Fieri felt it was important to tell the story publicly. If his company can be victimized like this, he says in the segment, “then everybody’s vulnerable.”

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CORRECTION: This post originally referred to Fieri as a Ferndale native. While he did grow up in the Cream City, he was not born there. The Outpost regrets the error.