MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A tractor-trailer that was reported stolen Monday by its driver was loaded with 5,000 Sony PlayStation game consoles worth an estimated $750,000, Melbourne police said on Tuesday.

Melbourne police Officer Jesus M. Lopez told Local 6 News partner Florida Today that a driver for Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd. in Breslau, Ontario, reported the truck missing just before 8 a.m. Monday.

Robert Arden Fisher, 61, told Lopez that he parked the rig in the rear parking lot of BJ's Wholesale Warehouse, located at 1155 Palm Bay Road in Melbourne, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and then went to visit a friend in Palm Bay.

Lopez said Fisher told him that when he returned at 7:15 a.m., he found that the rig was missing and immediately contacted his company and authorities.

Fisher told Lopez the trailer was secured with a U.S. Customs lock and a personal padlock. He said the truck itself also was locked.

The trailer was loaded with 28 pallets, each containing 250 PlayStation game consoles, Melbourne police said.

The rig was described as a royal blue 2007 Kenworth T2000 bearing Ontario registration, valued at $150,000, according to Brian Kurtz Trucking. The trailer is a white with blue trim Stoughton semi-rig valued at $50,000.

A spokesman at the trucking company's corporate office told police the rig is equipped with a GPS, which indicated that the ignition was turned on at 8:11 p.m. Monday, and was plotted about an hour later south of Port St. Lucie.

An hour after that, it was a mile south of Loxahatchee, near West Palm Beach.

One minute later, it plotted near Cheetam Hill Boulevard and West Stallion Drive in West Palm Beach.

The final GPS signal showed the rig was in the vicinity of a baseball field parking lot near Seminole Platt Whitney Road and East Downers Drive, a police report shows.

Melbourne police have contacted the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, asking it to try to locate the vehicle.

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