Police to search for remains of Jimmy Hoffa under driveway in Roseville
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.
‘We received information from an individual who saw something,’ Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press. ‘The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it.’
Berlin wouldn’t say who provided the tip — one of hundreds authorities have pursued in the years since Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot in Oakland County.
But he said the state’s Department of Environmental Quality used ground scanning radar last Friday to check out a spot under the driveway and found ‘an anomaly’ that prompted authorities to make plans to return to the site Friday to take a soil sample.
Berlin said it would be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to check for human remains.
‘We do not know if this is Jimmy,’ Berlin said.
The tipster told police Hoffa’s body may have been buried under the driveway of the home in the 18700 block of Florida, a residential neighborhood northwest of 12 Mile and Gratiot.
