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What’s Happening With The Investigation Into Danny’s Murder?
Fri, July 24, 2015
And while border security has been beefed up, what about the investigation into who killed lawman Danny Conorquie? As noted earlier, it was suspected but never confirmed that Guatemalan cross-border bandits were his killers.

We asked police minister John Saldivar for an update into who did it:

Hon. John Saldivar - Minister of National Security
"I know that in the immediate aftermath of the killing, we got the Guatemalan authorities to agree that they would do their best to try to assist us in this investigation. But unfortunately, that has not brought any results and because we believe that the perpetrators have fled back into Guatemala and we don't have any jurisdiction there, we basically have to rely on the authorities over there to do the investigation and unfortunately like I said, it has not result in any further information with respect to that."

Daniel Ortiz
"Is there any sort of like urgency your ministry has detected? What kind of importance are they putting in this case?"

Hon. John Saldivar - Minister of National Security
"I wouldn't want to get into a guessing game as to whether they are giving much input to it or not. Expect to say that they have not come forward with any more information. It's anybody's guess whether they are dealing with it, with the sort of urgency that we would want them to. Unfortunately we do not have any control over that."

Daniel Ortiz
"Has the government made any kind of attempts or formalize any kind of compensation to the family of Mr. Conorquie sir. We understand there were discussion about providing them with certain monetary assistance."

Hon. John Saldivar - Minister of National Security
"The last I heard a proposal was made by the government and as far as I understand it was rejected by the family, who has I believe (I stand to be corrected) that they would prefer to pursue the matter in the courts. But the offer was made by the Prime Minister."

Conorquie was known as a promising law enforcement officer. His dream was to enter the police Department as a regular officer as soon as he had a chance.

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