{"id":252034,"date":"2026-04-30T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:58:10","slug":"fbi-investigates-death-of-missing-florida-truck-driver-found-in-coastal-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252034\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI investigates death of missing Florida truck driver found in coastal Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI is working to solve the case of a missing Florida truck driver whose body was discovered in coastal Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Federal investigators took over the case after Alejandro Gonzalez went missing on April 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say the day before his disappearance, he picked up several cars in Georgia and was headed toward Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 41-year-old was last seen at the Brevard County rest area on I-95 southbound in Grant-Valkaria, where he stayed overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI says GPS data from the truck shows someone drove it south one exit before turning back north. That\u2019s when Gonzalez became unreachable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His truck was later found in Georgia without him and without several of the vehicles he had been transporting to Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI says Gonzalez is originally from Cuba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No one was at his Port St. Lucie home Wednesday evening, but neighbors say they are hoping the suspected car hauler hijacking is soon solved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI is asking for photos and video from anyone who may have been near the Brevard County rest stop on the morning of April 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators have not released a cause of death, and no persons of interest have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM The FBI is working to solve the case of a missing Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-252034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252034","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=252034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}