FBI confirms body of missing truck driver Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez in Georgia

The FBI said a body found in coastal Georgia was Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez, a 41-year-old CDL truck driver who disappeared while hauling multiple vehicles from the Port of Brunswick to Miami. Investigators had been treating his case as a suspicious disappearance and possible hijacking, underscoring the risks faced by long-haul drivers moving high-value cargo across the Southeast.

Gonzalez, originally from Cuba, picked up the vehicles at the Port of Brunswick on April 16 and headed south toward Florida. He was last seen in the early morning hours of April 17 at the I-95 South Brevard County Rest Area in Grant-Valkaria, Florida, after arriving around 1:21 a.m. and resting for several hours. The truck later turned up in Port Wentworth, Georgia, on April 17, but Gonzalez was not with it, and several vehicles were missing from the hauler.

That sequence has raised alarm far beyond one missing driver. Cargo theft tied to vehicle transport is a persistent vulnerability in the freight system, and the case highlights how quickly a routine port pickup can turn into a safety crisis when a driver, a load and a tractor-trailer are separated under suspicious circumstances. Rest areas, overnight parking stops and interstate corridors remain exposed points for theft and violence, especially when the cargo is valuable and the route is predictable.

The FBI confirmed on April 29 that the body recovered in coastal Georgia was Gonzalez. Authorities have not publicly released a cause of death. The bureau said the investigation remains active and asked anyone with information to contact the FBI Tampa Field Office or submit a tip through the bureau’s tip line.

For trucking firms and law enforcement, the case is a stark reminder that cargo theft is not only a property crime. When a driver disappears and a loaded hauler later surfaces without its operator, the immediate concern becomes whether the load was targeted, whether the driver was intercepted, and whether the chain of custody that underpins freight security was broken. In a national logistics network built on tight delivery windows and high-value shipments, that threat now reaches from port terminals to interstate rest stops and back again.