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FDLE: Help find Brian Klecha

 
For Immediate Release
December 27, 2024
 
TAMPA, Fla. – The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) continues to pursue leads into the 2017 disappearance of Lakeland Air Force veteran Brian Edward Klecha. In honor of the seventh anniversary, FDLE is sharing a video interview about the case, hoping that it will help generate new leads in the cold case.
 
“FDLE has not stopped searching for answers to Brian’s disappearance and will continue to explore every lead and tip until we find the truth of what happened,” said FDLE Tampa Special Agent in Charge Mark Brutnell.
 
Brian Klecha was last seen making a banking transaction on December 27, 2017, at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union in Auburndale.  He has ties to Orange, Polk and Hillsborough counties and was an employee of the Disney Corporation. Klecha was 35 years old at the time when he vanished.
 
On February 11, 2018, Klecha’s Jeep Patriot was found abandoned on State Road 618 in Tampa at the Morgan Street exit.  Investigators believe the Jeep had been involved in a car accident a few days earlier.
 
Agents believe Klecha may have been the victim of domestic or drug abuse and did not leave or go missing on his own.
 
“We’re asking the public and anyone who knew Brian to help us find him. If you have any information that can help, no matter how small, help us bring him home,” said Brutnell.  
 
See more about the Brian Klecha case here: https://tinyurl.com/mr34thbn
 
If you have information about the whereabouts or disappearance of Brian Edward Klecha, please call Special Agent Sean McEntee at (813) 878-7347.
 
For Further Information Contact:
FDLE Office of Public Information
Info@fdle.state.fl.us

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