Naomi Irion disappearance: Suspect in custody but 18-year-old nowhere to be found

Nevada authorities on Friday introduced that they’ve a suspect in custody related to lacking 18-year-old Naomi Irion‘s alleged abduction.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace (LCSO) and different legislation enforcement companies had been nonetheless “actively looking for Naomi” as of Friday afternoon.

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 usually parked her automotive and took an worker bus to her job manufacturing batteries at a Panasonic manufacturing unit. The FBI stated she was “kidnapped” from the car parking zone “by a nondescript male.”

Casey Valley, Irion’s older brother, instructed Fox Information Digital that he would not “know something extra concerning the suspect” than anybody else. 

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LCSO had been looking for a Chevy pickup truck they believed was concerned in Irion’s kidnapping. On Friday, the sheriff’s workplace stated they’d recovered an impounded pickup truck “that was presumably concerned.”

Naomi Irion kidnapping suspect’s automobile (Lyon County Sheriff)
(Lyon County Sheriff)

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

The search “continues to be on” till her household will get “one thing concrete,” Valley stated.

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

Seucirty footage on day Naomi Irion was final seen. (Lyon County Sheriff)

The suspect may very well be seen within the footage “strolling instantly in entrance of automobiles and their headlights.”

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

Naomi Irion kidnapping suspect (Lyon County Sheriff)

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

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 a variety of overseas international locations, together with Germany and Russia.

Noami Irion and her sister (Credit score: Irion household)

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 may go towards the seek for Naomi via 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.