ESSEXVILLE, Mich., July 16 (UPI) -- A battery of police and sheriff's deputies converged on a home in Essexville, Mich., Wednesday in hopes of finding evidence of Jimmy Hoffa.
"We have some information that's come to us from a prisoner that's related to the Hoffa case," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
The information could solve the 28-year-old mystery of the former Teamster boss's disappearance.
Hoffa, 62, vanished July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, outside Detroit.
The FBI said Hoffa went there to meet with reputed Detroit mob figure Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone and Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters official.
It is believed Hoffa was lured to the meeting so Provenzano's henchmen could kill him to prevent him from regaining the Teamsters presidency and shutting off organized crime's access to union pension funds, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Hoffa's body has never been found. Giacalone and Provenzano are both dead.
