Police Collect Soil Samples In Jimmy Hoffa Search

Roseville police detecties collected soil samples from a Roseville home after receiving a tip  this week and inspecting the property with ground penetrating radar as part of their  on-going search for former teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa‘s body.    http://ow.ly/e5jxC

The Detroit Free Press earlier this week reported Roseville police had recieved clues as to where Jimmy Hoffa may be buried under a driveway..  Police in Roseville, Mich.,were prompted by the tip  to do a radar scan of the ground under a driveway at the home. After finding an “anomaly,” they will be bringing forensic anthropologists to the scene this Friday to search for remains. On Friday police detectives collected soil samples tobe analyzed.  See photo here from Detroit Free Press. 

The Detroit Free Press reports ”police will be taking soil core samples at a home in Roseville on Friday in search of the remains of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance sparked one of the 20th century’s biggest mysteries.”   See the complete Detroit Free Press article here: http://ow.ly/e1z4q 

James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975, declared legally dead July 30, 1982 was an American labor union leader.

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Hoffa was involved with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union (IBT) as an organizer from 1932 to 1975. By 1952, Hoffa had risen to national vice-president of the IBT, which was on its way to becoming the largest and most powerful single union in the US. He served as the union’s General President from 1958 to 1971. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters’ rates in 1964, and played a major role in the growth and development of the union, which eventually became the largest single union in the United States, with over 1.5 million members during his terms as its leader.

Hoffa, who had been convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery, and fraud in 1964, was imprisoned in 1967, sentenced to 13 years, after exhausting the appeal process. In mid-1971 he resigned the Teamsters’ presidency, an action that was part of a pardon agreement with US president Richard Nixon, to facilitate his release later that year. Nixon blocked Hoffa from union activities until 1980 (which would have been the end of his prison term, had he served the full sentence). Hoffa attempted to overturn this order and to regain support.

Hoffa was last seen in late July 1975, outside the Machus Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant. His disappearance gave rise to many theories as to what had happened to him and where his body was hidden.

Here’s a link to all the FBI files on Jimmy Hoffa http://vault.fbi.gov/jimmy-hoffa/

18700 block of Florida Roseville Michigan where the search is reportedly taking place.

A closer look at the site where the search is reportedly taking place that may be where Hoffa is buried and where the anomaly was found at 18710 Florida in Roseville, Michigan where Hoffa may be  buried. 

At the 1952 IBT convention in Los Angeles, he was selected as national vice-president by incoming president Dave Beck, successor to Daniel J. Tobin, who had been president since 1907. Hoffa had quelled an internal revolt against Beck by securing Central States region support for Beck at the convention. In exchange, Beck made Hoffa a vice-president.

The IBT moved its headquarters from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C., taking over a large office building in the US capital in 1955. IBT staff was also enlarged during this period, with many lawyers hired to assist with contract negotiations. Following his 1952 election as vice-president, Hoffa began spending more of his time away from Detroit, either in Washington or traveling around the US for his expanded responsibilities.

Hoffa disappeared at, or sometime after, 2:45 pm on July 31, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, an affluent suburb of Detroit. According to what he had told others, he believed he was to meet there with two Mafia leaders—Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano. Provenzano was also a union leader with the Teamsters in New Jersey, and had earlier been quite close to Hoffa. Provenzano was a national vice-president with IBT from 1961, Hoffa’s second term as Teamsters’ president.

When Hoffa did not return home that evening, his wife reported him missing. Police found Hoffa’s car at the restaurant but no sign of Hoffa himself or any indication of what happened to him. Extensive investigations into the disappearance began immediately, and continued over the next several years by several law enforcement groups, including the FBI. The investigations did not conclusively determine Hoffa’s fate. For their part, Giacalone and Provenzano were found not to have been near the restaurant that afternoon, and each denied they had scheduled a meeting with Hoffa.

Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, on the seventh anniversary of his disappearance, when he would have been aged 69. His disappearance gave rise to many rumors and theories.