Missing Naomi Irion’s family believes ‘group’ may be involved in abduction; possible ‘sex trafficking’ case

The household of lacking Nevada 18-year-old Naomi Irion believes a number of folks might have been concerned in her March 12 abduction, which in addition they allege may very well be a intercourse trafficking case.

Irion was final seen in a Walmart car parking zone in Fernley, Nevada, after 5 a.m. on March 12. It was the place she sometimes parked her automobile and took an worker bus to her job manufacturing batteries at a Panasonic manufacturing facility. The FBI stated she was “kidnapped” from the car parking zone “by a nondescript male.”

“It actually looks as if this was possibly a bunch of individuals — a couple of particular person. So now we have that particular person on video, however there could also be some indication that there could be different folks concerned, different automobiles concerned,” Irion’s older brother, Casey Valley, advised Fox Information Digital. “And we’re working very intently with legislation enforcement to assist them with all of that. However we do not know who did this, and that is vital to convey.”

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“The apparent conclusion to me is a few sort of intercourse trafficking or one thing like that,” Valley continued, “however we do not know that for certain. … Thus far, it is a kidnapping case, and that is the way it’s being handled. There’s lots of shifting items.”

The 18-year-old girl had been on a date simply the evening earlier than her abduction, however her brother doesn’t consider the date is concerned on this case.

Naomi Irion (left) from 2013.
(Irion household)

“It was a daytime date. They went to thrift shops. … They went to a Mexican restaurant. And I positively noticed her afterward,” Valley stated. “She appeared positive. She appeared like she was prepared for mattress, and she or he advised me she was going to mattress early as a result of she needed to rise up early within the morning.”

A number of months previous to her abduction, Panasonic closed a sexual harassment case that Irion had introduced ahead. Her household doesn’t consider that case is concerned in her abduction, both.

“There was one sexual harassment incident that was taken care of internally at Panasonic to Naomi’s satisfaction. And now we have no purpose to consider at this level that any of that’s associated to this,” Valley stated.

Naomi Irion 
(Lyon County Sheriff)

Regulation enforcement officers “on the highest stage” know of “everybody” Naomi has frolicked with “in the previous couple of months,” he added.

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Safety digicam footage launched by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace Tuesday reveals a possible suspect in her kidnapping. It is a man carrying denims and a grey, hooded sweatshirt strolling from a close-by homeless camp into the Walmart car parking zone. Authorities stated in a March 15 Fb submit that the suspect acquired into the driving force’s seat of Irion’s car and left in an “unknown course with Naomi within the passenger seat.”

The suspect could be seen within the footage “strolling straight in entrance of automobiles and their headlights.”

Naomi Irion.
(Lyon County Sheriff)

Deputies positioned Irion’s car — a four-door sedan — in Fernley on March 15, two days after she was reported lacking. Proof authorities present in her deserted car advised that her disappearance was felony in nature.

Authorities stated the suspect is believed to be driving a 2021 or 2022 Chevy 2500 truck that’s darkish blue or black. The truck is a high-country trim mannequin with a single rear-wheel axle, chrome door handles and a sliding again window.

Irion’s household is begging folks to look out for the truck or share any data referring to the truck with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Division.

Naomi Irion kidnapping suspect’s car.
(Lyon County Sheriff)

{The teenager}’s household described her as “an extrovert” who “loves to fulfill folks and make pals.” She is “unbiased” and was saving cash to purchase her own residence earlier than she disappeared. She had a love for music, video games and drawing.

“Naomi, my boo boo bunny, I really like you a lot. We love you a lot,” Naomi’s mom, Diana Irion, stated in a tearful message to her daughter. “We’re coming to get you, child. Maintain on, maintain on. Please do not surrender. We love you a lot.”

Irion moved from South Africa to Nevada, the place she was residing with Valley, in August 2021. 

Naomi Irion’s mom, sister and father talking at a March 22 press convention.
(Lyon County Sheriff Fb)

“She was very within the American lifestyle,” her brother stated. “She actually needed that independence and freedom and every little thing that America has to supply.”

Naomi’s father, Herve Irion, and mom are in South Africa however traveled to Nevada this week to help with the seek for their daughter. Herve Irion works for the U.S. State Division within the overseas service. The Irions have lived in quite a lot of overseas nations, together with Germany and Russia.

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“I feel she skilled in different nations what it is like to not be free and for the residents of different nations to not be free,” Diana Irion stated. “The liberty that younger folks need to get a driver’s license and get a job and go on dates and drive cross-country if you wish to while you wish to … simply does not exist anyplace else.”

“She was so excited to expertise all of these issues,” the mom of seven continued.

Naomi Irion.
(Lyon County Sheriff)

A gaggle of volunteers will collect Saturday at Love’s Journey Cease in Fernley to assist seek for indicators of Irion.

“We want EMTs, we’d like search and rescue professionals. We want possibly folks with army expertise who may help,” Valley stated. “We want anybody that may assist with any sort of inch-by-inch, on-the-ground search, folks that have expertise.”

Naomi Irion
( Irion household)

The Lyon Sheriff’s workplace is asking anybody with details about Irion’s whereabouts to name 775-463-6620 or e-mail detective@lyon-county.org.

The Irion household is accepting donations that may go towards the seek for Naomi by means of a GoFundMe web page and Findingkids.org, a nonprofit serving to folks for personal investigations. Her household is asking the general public to say Naomi Irion of their donations.