FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Left: Irena Malezhik

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FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Neighbors Of Up-Scale Coney Island Community Shocked By Latest Developments
Irina Malezhik Has Been Missing Since Oct. 2007; Authorities Believe She May Be Buried In Basement

Reporting
Magee Hickey BROOKLYN (CBS)

(8/18/2009)
The FBI and New York City Police are continuing to search Tuesday for the body of a woman who vanished two years ago. Authorities are digging through the basement of a house in Brooklyn.

It was a tip to the FBI that led a team of agents and NYPD detectives to bring in a cadaver-sniffing dog and special, heavy equipment to search the basement of the Sea Gate home owned by Julia and Dimitriy Yakovlev.

The Sea Gate couple has already been charged with stealing the identity of the missing Russian court translator. Irina Malezhik had been working on Russian mob cases in federal court, so naturally her neighbors fear the worst.

"If she was involved with the Russians they'll never find her," Roz Lichtmann said. (more...)