Guadalupe Juarez-Figueroa, a 57-year-old Hispanic man known as Lupe, disappeared while driving from Fort Myers, Florida, to Austin, Texas. He left home December 11, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. in a dark blue and silver 2000 Ford Econoline E150 van (Florida plate ADQF55, VIN 1FMRE11WXYHA35588). He told his fiancée by phone about 11:00 p.m. that night that he was staying at a Motel 6 in Brownsville, Texas. Motel staff later confirmed he spent the night and checked out at 11:10 a.m. on December 12, but he never arrived in Austin and his family has not heard from him since.

Juarez-Figueroa is described as having brown hair, hazel eyes, a mustache, eyeglasses, a missing tip of his left middle finger and a three-inch scar on his left forearm. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is handling the investigation.

If anyone saw Lupe, his van, or has information about his route between Brownsville and Austin around December 11–12, 2011, please come forward.