FBI resumes search for missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in Detroit field
United States federal agents have revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa, digging around in a suburban Detroit field where a reputed mafia captain says the body of the Teamsters labour union boss was buried.
Authorities used excavators to dig around sites on the Oakland Township property, about 40 kilometres north of Detroit.
Robert Foley, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, made a few brief comments during a news conference about the latest search for the union leader who went missing in 1975. He said the warrant to search the property was sealed, and that authorities would not be disclosing the details of what they were seeking.
Foley did not mention the name of Tony Zerilli, the reputed mafia captain who told Detroit TV station WDIV in February that he knew where Hoffa was buried. Zerilli, who was promoting a book, , said the FBI had enough information for a search warrant to dig at the site, and that he had answered every question from agents and prosecutors.
Hoffa was the president of the Teamsters union from 1957-71. He was an acquaintance of mobsters and an adversary of federal officials. The day in 1975 when he disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant, he was supposed to be meeting with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain.
