$100,000-Worth Of Gun-Shaped Tequila Stolen From Truck Stop
Posted: 4:43 pm EST December 4, 2007Updated: 10:33 pm EST December 4, 2007
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An entire semi-truck full of uniquely-packaged tequila was stolen from Orange County. Investigators are trying to find more than $100,000 worth of tequila in bottles shaped like Tommy guns.
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Everyone's talking about the tractor trailer that reportedly disappeared from the Trucker's Paradise truck stop on South Orange Blossom Trail.Truck driver Orlando Cerra told Eyewitness News that he parked the truck overnight. When he came back in the morning, the truck and hundreds of machine-gunned shaped bottles of premium tequila were gone.
The tequila company said it was shipped in a trailer and inside the back of that trailer were the tequila bottles worth $100,000. The shipment was on its way to south Florida after it left Chicago last week.The Tommy Guns Tequila Company said the theft couldn't have come at a worse time, in the middle of the holiday shopping season."I had no idea this kind of crime was still alive and well today," said Gina Zera, Tommy Guns Tequila.Tommy Guns Tequila said the missing 1997 Freightliner tractor is white with Texas license plates. The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
MUST SEE! 99-Photo Strange News SlideshowEveryone's talking about the tractor trailer that reportedly disappeared from the Trucker's Paradise truck stop on South Orange Blossom Trail.Truck driver Orlando Cerra told Eyewitness News that he parked the truck overnight. When he came back in the morning, the truck and hundreds of machine-gunned shaped bottles of premium tequila were gone.
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