Jimmy Hoffa

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Jimmy Hoffa still dead

The FBI launched a search for the body of former Teamsters President James R. Hoffa Wednesday in an Oakland County farm field after agents from the organized crime squad in Detroit obtained a search warrant from a federal judge Tuesday.

An undisclosed FBI source offered information about Hoffa's whereabouts in recent weeks that was deemed credible and detailed enough to mount a search. FBI Special Agent Dawn Clenney confirmed the search began today with a team of agents and the Bloomfield Township police.

The search is "in connection with the ongoing investigation into James Riddle Hoffa's disappearance. for evidence of criminal activity that may have occurred under prior ownership," Clenney said, reading from a prepared statement. She said it was based on one of numerous leads the FBI has received and declined to say if the search would continue into the night.

The search could take several days.