Missing Naomi Irion’s kidnapping suspect Troy Driver appears in court for bail hearing

Troy Driver, the 41-year-old suspect in lacking 18-year-old girl Naomi Irion‘s March 21 kidnapping, appeared earlier than a Yerrington, Nevada, courtroom by way of Zoom on Wednesday for his bail listening to.

Driver has been charged with first-degree kidnapping. Lyon County Decide Lori Matheus set Driver’s bail at $750,000. If Driver posts bail, he can be positioned on enhanced supervision with a GPS monitor. 

The decide set a pretrial listening to for April 5 and a preliminary listening to for April 12. 

Irion was final seen in a Walmart parking zone in Fernley after 5 a.m. on March 12. It was the place she usually parked her automotive and took an worker bus to her job manufacturing batteries at a Panasonic manufacturing unit. The FBI mentioned she was “kidnapped” from the parking zone “by a nondescript male.”

Naomi Irion kidnapping suspect Troy Driver (Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace)
(Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace)

Driver was charged with first-degree kidnapping and is being held on $750,000 bail, in accordance with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace. Irion stays lacking, and the FBI is providing a $10,000 reward for data resulting in her whereabouts.

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Casey Valley, Irion’s older brother who reported her lacking, beforehand advised Fox Information Digital that Driver was “not speaking” and that he didn’t “anticipate” the suspect to talk throughout his bail listening to.

Driver was reportedly beforehand sentenced to fifteen years for his position in serving to cowl up a homicide in 1997 and different violent crimes, in accordance with native information obtained by Information 4 and FOX 11 Reno. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it doesn’t share legal information.

Naomi Irion (Irion household)

“The explanation I do not assume he is speaking, and it is sort of an assumption on my half … this suspect is accustomed to the legal justice system, intimately,” Valley mentioned. 

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Safety digital camera footage launched by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace reveals a possible male suspect in her kidnapping, although it’s unclear if the individual is Driver. The person sporting denims and a grey, hooded sweatshirt might be seen strolling from a close-by homeless camp into the Walmart parking zone. The suspect then obtained into the motive force’s seat of Irion’s car and left in an “unknown course with Naomi within the passenger seat.”

Deputies situated Irion’s car, a four-door sedan, in Fernley on March 15, two days after she was reported lacking. Authorities mentioned proof present in her deserted car recommended that her disappearance was legal in nature.

Naomi Irion
(Lyon County Sheriff)

A bunch of volunteers will collect Saturday at 2 p.m. in Hazen, Nevada, to search for any clues that would result in discovering Irion’s location. Hazen is about 12 miles southeast of Fernley.

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

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