FBI identifies missing truck driver found dead in coastal Georgia

The FBI has identified the body found in coastal Georgia as Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez, a 41-year-old truck driver who vanished during a freight run that had already turned strange before he was ever reported missing. His case moved from a routine load pickup to a cross-state death investigation in a matter of days, with federal agents now trying to piece together what happened between Florida and Georgia.

Gonzalez was last seen in the early morning hours of April 17 at the I-95 South Brevard County Rest Area in Grant-Valkaria, Florida. He had picked up multiple vehicles at the Port of Brunswick in Georgia on April 16 and was hauling them to Miami. When investigators later found his truck in Port Wentworth, Georgia, several vehicles were missing from the hauler. Three of the missing vehicles were later located in Florida, adding another layer to a case that already looked suspicious.

The FBI said Gonzalez arrived at the rest area at about 1:21 a.m. and rested there for several hours. At 7:49 a.m., GPS showed the truck driving south one exit, then turning north toward Jacksonville. Soon after that movement, Gonzalez became unreachable and the truck was reported missing. The FBI’s Tampa and Atlanta divisions are leading the death investigation, and the bureau has described the disappearance as a possible hijacking.

The mystery now centers on how Gonzalez ended up dead in coastal Georgia and where, exactly, his body was recovered in Glynn County. The FBI has not publicly released the precise location of the recovery or the cause of death. It has asked for photos or video from the Brevard County rest area between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. on April 17, especially the southern portion near the ramp back onto I-95 South, as investigators try to rebuild the last known hours of the truck’s route.

The FBI bulletin described Gonzalez as a CDL driver for a trucking company, born February 8, 1985, in Cuba, about 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds, with brown eyes, a bald head, a brown beard and moustache, and tattoos on both arms, including a full sleeve on the left arm and the name “Elisia” on his right forearm. The case also sits inside the broader cargo-theft problem the FBI and NICB warn about, with commercial freight theft in the U.S. estimated at $35 billion a year. But for now, the hard fact is narrower and grim: a missing truck driver has been found dead, and the route from Brunswick to Miami still ends in unanswered questions.