PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) – Authorities say a truck driver has been found dead in Georgia after he was last seen alive at a Florida rest stop.
According to the FBI Tampa, a body that was discovered earlier this month has been identified as 41-year-old Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez.
Federal authorities said Gonzalez went missing while heading to Miami with a shipment of vehicles he picked up on April 16 at the Port of Brunswick on the Georgia coast.
The 41-year-old was reported to have been seen in the early morning hours of April 17 at an Interstate 95 Brevard County rest area in Florida before disappearing.
His tractor-trailer was found later that day, about 320 miles away, back in Port Wentworth, west of Savannah. However, the FBI said that Gonzalez and several of the cars he was hauling were found missing.
According to the FBI, a missing person bulletin was issued for the commercial truck driver whose body was discovered in coastal Glynn County, Georgia, nearly 80 miles south of where his trailer was found.
Feds said three of the vehicles missing from Gonzalez’s truck have since been located in Florida, but others haven’t been found.
Gonzalez’s cause of death was not immediately released, while the FBI says its investigation is ongoing.