FBI says Hoffa search expected to take 2 weeks

msnbc ^ | May 18, 2006 | NBC News and news services

[xJones]

MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The FBI said Thursday that a search of a horse farm for clues to Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance is expected to take at least a couple weeks and likely will involve the removal of a barn.

Federal agents began digging at Hidden Dreams Farm on Wednesday in a search for “the human remains of James Riddle Hoffa,” according to the search warrant, obtained by The Associated Press

The former Teamsters leader disappeared in 1975 on a night he was to have dinner at a restaurant about 20 miles away.

Hoffa was to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain, and investigators have longed suspected the two had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union control after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.

“This is the best lead I’ve seen come across on the Hoffa investigation,” Daniel Roberts, special agent in charge of the Detroit FBI field office, said Thursday outside the farm.

He declined to say where the lead came from but said the search included the use of heavy construction equipment and investigators expected to be there a couple weeks....continued.

[battlecry]

Don't knock it. It gives me hope that in 75 years or so the crack FBI team will find the anthrax killer.

[sergeantdave]

Finding Jimmy Hoffa is one of the Holy Grails for the idiots in the FBI. (Believe me when I say that the FBI in Michigan are idiots.)

Finding Hoffa means book contracts, speaking fees and probably advisory pay for the movie. (Hoffa, in fact, is in the federal witness program and works in Area 51 interrogating aliens.)

Anyway, looking for Hoffa will occupy the FBI for the summer. This search will relieve them from their primary preoccupation - looking for Michigan militia boogeymen in the hardwood forests. (A few years ago the FBI from southeast Michigan arrested a group of militia nuts up north for plotting bomb attacks. The militia gang they arrested consisted of 7 undercover FBI agents, 3 undercover agents from the DEA and Harvey the bomb sniffing dog on loan from the ATF.)

Well, searching for the unsinkable Jimmy Hoffa will get the FBI out of the office and onto cement parking lots where they can break big pieces into little ones with hammer and pick. Somewhere in here there's a Monty Python skit.

[xJones]

Thanks for the reference! I Heard You Paint Houses looks like a great read.

[xJones]

Well at least we now know that Jimmy Hoffa wasn't buried under Tammy Faye Baker's make-up.

Yes, but there's there's enough room for Judge Crater and D.B. Cooper, so let's keep looking.)

[gaspar]

Doesn't the FBI have better things to do? Perhaps some of their clowns could be assigned to the Border Patrol.

[martin_fierro]

investigators have longed suspected

MSNBC: My Speling Not Bery Checked

[bandleader]

I thought it was one of the end-zones?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Home sweet home, for me. This would be an interesting historical reference for the village. :)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yeah, I've been hearing about this lately. Weird!

[pepperhead]

Did he ever say who killed Hoffa?

He said he did. He said the body was put in a trunk of a car and crushed. But law enforcement thinks he was lying about it.

[Global2010]

Well let it go cold case already.

Spending money for such an operation as an earlier poster put it " searching for Carmen Santiago (sp)"

is as dumb as testing microscopic bacteria/parasites in the whirling fish disease.

[SunkenCiv]

What a HUGE waste of money. Hoffa's dead, and good riddance.

And BTW...

Breaking News: FBI Searches Wooded Area for Hoffa
WXYZ TV Detroit | 5/17/-06 | WXYZ TV Detroit
Posted on 05/17/2006 5:06:21 PM EDT by Larry Lucido
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633944/posts