{"id":248218,"date":"2026-04-27T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:00:21","slug":"fbi-investigates-disappearance-of-cuban-truck-driver-heading-to-miami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/248218\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI investigates disappearance of Cuban truck driver heading to Miami \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cuban truck driver who picked up his load in Georgia and was on his way to South Florida vanished, and now, the FBI is asking the public’s help in finding him.<\/p>\n

Federal agents with the FBI\u2019s Tampa Division are investigating the \u201csuspicious disappearance\u201d of a Cuban-born truck driver identified as Alejandro Jacomino Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, on April 16 the driver, who works for a transportation company, picked up his cargo at the Port of Brunswick and set out for Miami, where he was scheduled to deliver the vehicles.<\/p>\n

What we know so far<\/p>\n

The agency said that around 1:21 a.m., Gonz\u00e1lez stopped in Brevard County, Florida, where he rested for several hours. The truck\u2019s GPS later showed the vehicle \u201ctraveled one exit south and then turned north toward Jacksonville, Florida\u201d at about 7:49 a.m.<\/p>\n

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He stopped responding<\/p>\n

\u201cShortly after, Gonz\u00e1lez stopped responding and the truck was reported missing,\u201d the FBI said.<\/p>\n

Authorities later located the truck in Port Wentworth, Georgia, but the driver was not there \u2014 and neither were several of the vehicles, the agency said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the truck was found, three of the vehicles have been recovered in Florida. Others remain missing, along with Gonz\u00e1lez,\u201d officials added.<\/p>\n

Description of the missing driver<\/p>\n

The FBI shared a flyer<\/a> with Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s photo and physical description.<\/p>\n

He is described as a white Hispanic man with brown eyes, bald, with a beard and mustache. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. Investigators said Gonz\u00e1lez has \u201ca full sleeve tattoo on his left arm, another tattoo on his right forearm, and a tattoo of the word \u2018Elisia\u2019 on his right forearm.\u201d<\/p>\n

FBI asks public for help<\/p>\n

The FBI is asking anyone with photos or video who may have been in or near the Brevard County rest area in Grant-Valkaria, Florida, between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on Friday, April 17, 2026 \u2014 especially in the southern part of the rest stop, near the ramp that reconnects to I-95 South \u2014 to share what they have.<\/p>\n

Those with images can submit them directly to the FBI through an online form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cuban truck driver who picked up his load in Georgia and was on his way to South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2362,28,1853,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-248218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fbi","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}