Hillsborough County detectives are still looking for a Riverview father who mysteriously vanished.
His pickup truck was discovered burned in the woods. Investigators say he could be endangered.
Octavio Reyes left his Riverview home August 30th. A relative saw the 36-year-old at Walmart on Gibsonston Drive and made plans to meet up at Club 301 in Tampa that night. Reyes never made it.
Deputies found his torched truck in the woods in Ruskin the next day.
The Reyes family tells 10 News it's hard to hold out hope that something sinister hasn't happened to Octavio as the days pass. Detectives are following leads to find this father, but are asking for the public's help in their search.
"To understand the pain of a mother is not easy," says Juanita Reyes, translating for her grandmother, Octavio's mother. The family has shed so many tears. They're searching for answers as investigators search for Octavio.
"She just wants to know where he's at, what they did to him," says Reyes. The family fears someone did something to him, because they insist it's not like the father of six to mysteriously disappear, just days before he'd been set to start a new construction job in Fort Lauderdale.
"I have faith he is still alive. I hope and I pray he is still alive, but I just don't know," Reyes says. Investigators aren't sure what happened to Octavio either. The sheriff's office is now calling Reyes' disappearance "suspicious," after they found his burned-up Ford F-150.
"God forbid he is someplace, and he is injured or dead. We want to make sure we can determine that as quickly as possible," says Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Detective Larry McKinnon.
Detectives are retracing Reyes' path and tracking his bank records and cell phones. But Reyes' family has been trying to reach him, since he made plans to meet up at Club 301 on August 30th but didn't show up.
His family tells 10 News that Reyes and the mother of his kids had been in divorce court the day before he disappeared, but he didn't seem upset.
"He's been separated from his wife for three years. They were going through a divorce, but he never gave us a reason to even think that he would want to just get up and leave and leave everything," says Reyes.
"Hopefully, there's not going to be a bad guy in this thing, and this guy is just sitting out on the beach somewhere trying to get away from everything and just hasn't called and notified his family," says Det. McKinnon.
Reyes' kids range from 4 to 18 years old and have been asking for their dad. The family is pleading for the public's help in the search to bring him home.
If you've seen Octavio Reyes, contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office at 813-247-8200.
SOURCE: http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2014/09/11/missing-riverview-man-search/15474239/
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