A San Bernardino County man who posed online as a teenage boy and enticed a 15-year-old girl to have a sexual relationship before bringing her to Mexico has been found guilty on all federal charges he faced at the conclusion of a four-day trial, the Justice Department announced [this week].
Daniel Navarro, 41, of Victorville, who sometimes posed online as “Angel,” was found guilty late Thursday of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing a sexually explicit visual depiction, one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, one count of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of transportation of child pornography.
Navarro was arrested in July 2022 as he entered the United States from Mexico 10 days after he brought the victim to Mexico just before her quinceañera. The victim, an Arizona girl who was spending the summer in the Central Coast town of Nipomo – was rescued by Mexican authorities from a Tijuana residence after Navarro’s arrest. He remains in federal custody.
According to evidence presented at trial, Navarro had an online relationship with this victim. A review of one of his Instagram accounts revealed conversations between Navarro and this victim on her Instagram account in which Navarro professed his love for this victim and discussed having sex with her to impregnate her.
Navarro transported this victim from San Luis Obispo County to Tijuana, Mexico, with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Navarro also used Instagram to distribute child pornography to this minor and with transporting child pornography on his phone as he traveled from Tijuana, Mexico, up to San Luis Obispo County before making the return trip to Tijuana. The evidence at trial also showed that Navarro used Instagram to persuade, induce, and entice another second victim to send him sexual images.
United States District Judge André Birotte Jr. scheduled an October 24 sentencing hearing, at which time Navarro will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The FBI and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office are investigating this matter. The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office provided substantial assistance. The FBI’s Legal Attaché in Mexico City and Mexican law enforcement authorities provided assistance during this investigation. DHS Homeland Security Investigations provided assistance at the southern border and during Navarro’s arrest.
Assistant United States Attorney Kevin Reidy of the Major Frauds Section and Assistant United States Attorney Kathy Yu are prosecuting this case.
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I’m sure Pam Bondi will get right on this. Maybe she’ll secure a pardon for the suspect.
Wrong party. You’re thinking of the donkey one.
What a stupid knee-jerk response
What does this get you? Claiming that it’s the Democrats who currently have pardon power will cause even people who are not familiar with your incessant trolling and lies to dismiss you.
Trump is the one teasing pardons for both Maxwell and Diddy. The man never met a pimp or a rapist he didn’t love.
Trump has pardoned over 1500 criminals just this year, many of them monsters of various sorts.
You mean the donkey of the day – DJT, of course!
BASIC – MAGA lawmakers are being arrested left and right for child sex crimes. Bondi has bent over backwards to protect Trump and other from being exposed by the Epstein files.
Get your head out of the sand.
I always wonder how the parents/family don’t know what is happening with 14 year old daughter. How do they not know she is in Mexico? Don’t they talk with her, warn her, be involved her life and know what’s going on?
First of all, 14-year-olds, male or female, can be incredibly sneaky even with alert parents. Impossible to watch them 24/7. And you can’t wrap them up and tuck them away until they are over hormone-driven insanity. (No one ever gets over completely!) Combine “romance” and ignorance–all we can hope for is luck. That makes people who target the young doubly slimey. Same for the low-lifes who prey on old people. Those crimes should be punished severely no matter who the perp is becasue the perps are “shooting fish in a barrel,” victimizing those who can’t protect themelves.
I understand kids can be sneaky, but she was in Mexico for 10 days! Wouldn’t her parents and family check in with her? Afterall, she is only 14 years old. Wouldn’t they notice she was in Mexico if they looked at FindMe on the phone, for example?
Agree this is a low-life and hope he gets the full 15 year sentence!
The real reason these clowns are still running around is the light on crime party that runs CA. Guess which one?
BASIC – they literally caught this clown. He’s no longer “running around.” They’re catching a lot more, too. Most of them are white, MAGA, “Christian” and many of them are elected officials.
It’s so stupidly MAGA and hilarious how you cling to this idea that the Dems somehow are pro-crime or soft of child rapists while the party RUNNING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY is doing everything it possibly can to ease up on one of America’s (if not THE) worst child trafficking rapists in our history. Your guys are calling Maxwell “a victim” as they ignore calls from their own MAGA base to release the files. Trump, who’s probably never uttered an actual true fact in his fat-ridden life, is saying he doesn’t know anything after he not to long ago “wished her well” after she was convicted for pimping out underage girls (the kind Trump himself has been caught on video saying creepy things to) so that scum like Epstein and all the other billionaires you stupid MAGA fan boys suck up to can rape them.
Until you demand accountability for this, You. Support. Child. Trafficking. Simple, basic and done.
Rachel Maddow’s got you all jacked up, kid.
As I’ve noted before, no remotely decent or honest person uses that “TDS” label. Doing so is like tattooing “troll” on one’s forehead.
Marcel1K – Well, you’re wrong. I know many people, young and old that are decent hand honest. There are many people that are continually wanking about Trump that deserve to be identified as being afflicted with “TDS.”
You people are the ones most responsible for these crimes. White, male, straight.
There’s a great one!
Yes, it was a true statement. You should try doing that some time.
BASIC and the truth is like a vampire and holy water.
And the odds go way up for white, male, christian church leaders or youth pastors