FBI offering $10,000 reward for info leading to missing 18-year-old Naomi Irion

The FBI introduced a $10,000 reward on Monday for info resulting in Naomi Irion, an 18-year-old who the bureau says was kidnapped from a Walmart parking zone in Fernley, Nevada, on the morning of March 12.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace arrested Troy Driver, 41, in reference to Irion’s disappearance on Friday. He is presently being held on the Yerington Jail on kidnapping expenses and is due in courtroom on Wednesday. 

Irion parked her automobile on the Walmart shortly after 5:00 a.m. on March 12 and was ready to catch an worker bus to her job at a Panasonic manufacturing facility when authorities say she was kidnapped. 

Surveillance video reveals a suspect strolling from a close-by homeless camp and “lurking in automobiles,” earlier than he acquired into Irion’s diver’s seat and drove off along with her within the passenger’s seat. 

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Three days later, Irion’s car was positioned in Fernley and authorities discovered proof inside that recommended her disappearance was felony in nature. 

On March 25, deputies from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace arrested Driver and impounded a pickup truck that they imagine could have been concerned in Irion’s disappearance. 

Driver was beforehand sentenced to fifteen years in jail in 1997 for murdering a methamphetamine vendor and robbing a string of comfort shops, the Ukiah Each day Journal reported on the time. 

Irion moved from South Africa to Nevada, the place she was residing along with her older brother, in August 2021. 

Naomi’s father, Herve Irion, works for the U.S. State Division within the overseas service and is presently stationed in South Africa. He traveled to Nevada with Irion’s mom final week to help with the seek for their daughter. 

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“No piece of data is just too small to report at this level,” Irion’s mom, Diana Irion, stated at a press convention final week. “We’d like everybody’s assist throughout the nation… She could possibly be anyplace.”

Irion’s brother, Casey Valley, stated that whereas authorities are treating his sister’s disappearance as a kidnapping, he believes that it could possibly be a intercourse trafficking case.  

“It actually looks as if this was perhaps a bunch of individuals — a couple of particular person. So we now have that particular person on video, however there could also be some indication that there is perhaps different individuals concerned, different automobiles concerned,” Valley beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital. 

“And we’re working very intently with legislation enforcement to assist them with all of that,” Valley stated. “However we do not know who did this, and that is vital to convey.”

Anybody with details about Irion’s disappearance can name an area FBI discipline workplace or the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace at 775-463-6620. 

Fox Information’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.