Missing truck driver found
Part-time tow-truck driver Valentino Malloggi, who had been missing since Easter Sunday, was found alive in Brunswick, Ga., on Tuesday night, Davie police said.
His family was notified and made arrangements to pick him up at a Salvation Army there, Sgt. Mark Leone saidWednesday.
Leone said police in Georgia found Malloggi walking alongside a highway.
“They said he was all right,” Leone said.“We had entered him into the National Crime Information computer system. If he gave his name to police there, they would know he was considered missing from Florida.”
Valentino had Easter supper at his boss’ Lauderhill home and then left his kids alone in his RV home, which is parked at a Davie truck stop, friends and police say.
“This isn’t in his character,” Christina Malloggi said last week. She and Malloggi, 38, are married but separated and have eight children together.
On Wednesday morning, she said she was relieved, but,“There is a lot of confusion right now. I do not knowwhat happened.”
Malloggi’s disappearance sparked a search by Davie Police officers with bloodhounds and with the agency’s mounted unit, which rode through fields in the area looking for him.
Malloggi works shifts for Interstate Towing in Davie, sometimes as a mechanic, sometimes driving a towtruck and responding to calls.
Christina Malloggi said the couple’s children were relieved. “They were crying, and are happy he was found,” she said.