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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Tampa division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help in the search for a missing truck driver last seen in Brevard County.
Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez, 41, was last seen on April 17 while transporting vehicles from the Port of Brunswick in Georgia to Miami.
Gonzalez, a CDL driver, may have been the victim of a hijacking, the FBI said.
Photo courtesy of the FBI
He is a Hispanic man who is 5 feet 11 inches, bald with a brown beard and mustache, and has a full sleeve tattoo on his left arm. He also has a tattoo on his lower right arm and a tattoo of the name “Elisia” on his right forearm.
Gonzalez is originally from Cuba and speaks English and Spanish.
At around 1:21 a.m. on April 17, Gonzalez was seen at the Brevard County Rest Area on I-95 South in Grant-Valkaria, where he stayed for a few hours to rest. At 7:49 a.m., the truck’s GPS recorded traveling south for one exit before turning around and heading north toward Jacksonville.
The FBI said that, soon after, Gonzalez became unreachable and the truck was reported missing.
Authorities located the truck later on April 17 in Port Wentworth, Georgia, with several vehicles missing, but Gonzalez was not there. He and some of the vehicles that were on the truck are now considered missing.
The FBI is asking anyone with photos or video footage around the Brevard County Rest Area between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Friday, April 17, to share them with investigators. Specifically, the FBI is interested in the southern part of the rest area near the ramp the leads to I-95 South.
Photos can be submitted here, and tips can be reported to 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or submitted to this link.