Thread: TX-Spokesman: Killer Bees' apartment housed illegal immigran

Spokesman: Killer Bees' apartment housed illegal immigrants

September 02, 2009 10:53 PM
Ana Ley


MISSION — An apartment reserved for members of the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees hockey team was apparently inhabited briefly by a group of illegal immigrants, a spokesman for the team said.

Team officials believed the apartment had been vacant since early last month when the Rio Grande Valley Dorados moved out after their Arena Football 2 season ended, said Rich Bocchini, a spokesman for the two teams, which are based at Hidalgo’s Dodge Arena.

But when the Bees’ bus driver visited the apartment Tuesday afternoon to help clean it in preparation for the hockey team’s arrival in October, he noticed blankets and pillows were strewn about and there were pots and pans in the kitchen, the spokesman said.

“It was really weird, but we thought maybe the trainer was just crashing out,â€

When I was in real estate, we worked a deal with Ron LeGrand to buy a golf course and surrounding property down in Mission. We would eat at a restaurant on the Rio Grande and watch BP patrol in their boats. Mission was a real estate hot spot a few years ago.

The biggest thing I noticed, even though the majority of Mission/McAllen is hispanic, I heard more English being spoken there that I do here in DFW.