{"id":251479,"date":"2026-04-29T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:08:12","slug":"cuban-truck-driver-found-dead-after-vanishing-on-way-to-miami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251479\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban truck driver found dead after vanishing on way to Miami \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cuban truck driver who disappeared on his way to Miami earlier this month, prompting an FBI search and investigation,<\/a> has been found dead, according to the driver’s cousin and the FBI.<\/p>\n

Federal agents with the FBI\u2019s Tampa Division had been investigating the \u201csuspicious disappearance\u201d of Alejandro Jacomino Gonz\u00e1lez, who had picked up his vehicle cargo in Georgia and was on his way to South Florida when he vanished.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez’s cousin, Juan Carlos Forcade, told NBC6 that the FBI called Gonz\u00e1lez’s wife on Tuesday, and told her that her husband’s body was found in Georgia. <\/p>\n

The FBI later confirmed that a body found in a coastal area of the state was confirmed to be Gonz\u00e1lez. More details about how he died were not immediately known.<\/p>\n

He stopped responding<\/p>\n

According to investigators, on April 16, Gonz\u00e1lez, who works for a transportation company, picked up multiple vehicles at the Port of Brunswick and set out for Miami, where he was scheduled to deliver the vehicles.<\/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 truck \u201ctraveled one exit south and then turned north toward Jacksonville, Florida\u201d at about 7:49 a.m.<\/p>\n

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\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

FBI sought help from the public<\/p>\n

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

The FBI asked 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 disappeared on his way to Miami earlier this month, prompting an FBI search…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2362,28,1853,225,227,226,123],"class_list":["post-251479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-fbi","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251479","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=251479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}