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CALGARY — Details emerged Friday about the criminal record dating back nearly 20 years of a man charged in the deaths of a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter.

Court records show Edward Delten Downey was convicted in 2008 of trafficking cocaine and possession of an unauthorized firearm. He was sentenced to four years.

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Downey, who also went by the last name Simmonds, also served time for aiding in prostitution in 1998.

He also faced several charges over the years related to stolen property, drugs, weapons and prostitution, but they were withdrawn.

Police charged Downey, 46, late Thursday with first-degree murder in the slayings of Sara Baillie, who was 34, and her daughter Taliyah Marsman.

Baillie was found in their Calgary home on Monday and an Amber Alert was issued when Taliyah could not be found. The child’s body was discovered on a rural property east of the city on Thursday.