An extremist group, Ansar al-Deen Front, posted the photo of its fighters aboard the Ford F-250 sometime on Monday. That prompted a flood of calls to Mark Oberholtzer, who owns Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, and has nothing to do with Syria's bloody civil war.
"How it ended up in Syria, I'll never know," Oberholtzer told The Galveston Daily News.
The photograph spread online and Oberholtzer told the paper that he traded in the truck three years ago to an area auto dealership. AutoNation, the Houston dealership, told KHOU.com that the truck was auctioned and was likely traded from owner to owner over the course of three years.
Oberholtzer was surprised the auto dealership sold the truck with the company’s name still on the door.
"They [AutoNation] were supposed to have done it [covered the decals] and it looks like they didn't do it," he said.
AutoNation did not immediately return a phone call from Fox News.
Oberholtzer owned the mom-and-pop plumbing company for 32 years and said his business has received a thousand calls and faxes about the photo.
"A few of the people are really ugly," he told the paper. "I just want it to go away, to tell you the truth."
His son told KHOU.com that the family his hard working and has no ties to terror.
"We have nothing to do with terror at all," Jeff Oberholtzer said.
