FILE - This booking photo provided by the Hill County Sheriff's Office in Havre, Mont., shows Edmund Davis on Oct. 23, 2023. Davis had been living in Havre with Alicia Navarro, a teenager who disappeared from Arizona four years ago and who reappeared in 2022 asking for her name to be taken off the missing person's list. (Hill County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Alicia Navarro was reported missing from her Glendale home in 2019 when she was 14 years old.
A Montana man connected to a formerly missing teen in Arizona has been sentenced to 100 years in prison with 50 years suspended after police found child sexual abuse material on his phone.
He will not be eligible for parole for 25 years, the Montana Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday in a press release.
Montana police served a search warrant at Edmund Davis’ home in 2023 after they learned that Alicia Navarro, who went missing from her Glendale home at age 14 in 2019, was living with him.
Police said that when Navarro answered the door, they saw Davis throw a cell phone into a trash can and try to cover it up with other items. The content found on his phone included images of infants and toddlers and computer-generated images of children being sexualized.
Davis pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of children.
What happened to Alicia Navarro?
Alicia Navarro was reported missing from her Glendale home in 2019 when she was 14 years old.
In 2023, at 18 years old, she showed up at a Montana police station asking to be removed from the missing juveniles list. At the time, police said “She is by all accounts safe, by all accounts healthy, and by all accounts happy.”
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It is unknown if Davis is connected to her disappearance. When he was arrested in 2023, Montana police referred questions to law enforcement in Arizona, who said the investigation into the teenager’s disappearance was ongoing.
At the time of Davis’ arrest, neighbors told The Associated Press he’d been living with Navarro for at least a year.
Navarro left a note behind when she disappeared from her home days before her 15th birthday, sparking a massive search that included the FBI. It said “I ran away. I will be back. I swear. I’m sorry.”
Over the years, Navarro’s mother, Jessica Nuñez, said that her daughter, who was diagnosed with autism, may have been lured away by someone she met online. When she disappeared in 2019, Navarro took only her laptop and cell phone.
In the years after her daughter’s disappearance, Nuñez paid for a billboard ad in Mexico that featured a photo of her daughter and bought 10 more ads in Las Vegas. She also spoke at events and gave media interviews to raise awareness about missing people.
Authorities in 2019 collected security footage from around the family’s neighborhood, and tried to track Navarro’s phone and laptop. They followed up on dozens of reports of possible sightings of the missing teenager around her Arizona town that came up empty.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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