Jimmy Hoffa search moves to Detroit driveway thanks to tip-off

Detroit police planned to examine a driveway in Roseville, Michigan for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 in a suspected organized crime hit.

Police say that information from a tipster is "credible" and that a radar had detected an anomaly beneath the ground at the Roseville home, CNN reported, citing Police Chief James Berlin.

While he didn’t claim Hoffa’s body was buried under the driveway, the tipster did tell police that he saw a body being buried there about the time Hoffa vanished 35 years ago, Berlin said

"We are not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa, the timeline doesn't add up," the Associated Press cited Berlin as saying. "We're investigating a body that may be at the location."

According to Click on Detroit, the tip came from a man dying from cancer.

"About a month or so ago an individual gave me a call who wanted to talk about a body that he allegedly witnessed being interred here in the city of Roseville approximately 35 years ago," Berlin said.

"That lead us to where we're at today."

Investigators would take a core sample from the site and test it for human remains, Berlin said.

Hoffa was last seen July 30, 1975, outside a suburban Detroit restaurant where he was meeting with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and senior member of the Detroit Mafia.

He was 62 and had recently been been released from prison after serving almost five years for fraud and other charges.

His body has never been found.

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