The FBI announced a $ 10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Naomi Orion, an 18-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted from a Walmart car park in Fernley, Nevada, on the morning of March 12. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Troy Driver, 41, in connection with Orion’s disappearance on Friday. He is currently being held in Yerington Jail on kidnapping charges and is expected to stand trial on Wednesday. Irion parked her car at Walmart shortly after 5:00 p.m. on March 12 and was waiting to pick up a bus for work at a Panasonic factory when authorities said she had been abducted. Surveillance video shows a suspect walking from a nearby homeless camp and “waiting in vehicles” before boarding the Irion diver and leaving with him as a co-driver. THE FAMILY OF THE MISSING NAOMI IRION BELIEVES THE “GROUP” MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE ABDUCTION. POSSIBLE CASE OF “SEXY TRAFICKING”. Three days later, Irion’s vehicle was located in Fernley and authorities found evidence suggesting that her disappearance was criminal in nature. On March 25, deputies from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office arrested the Driver and confiscated a truck they believed may be involved in Irion’s disappearance. Diver had previously been sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1997 for the murder of a methamphetamine dealer and the robbery of a number of convenience stores, the Ukiah Daily Journal reported at the time. Irion moved from South Africa to Nevada, where she lived with her older brother, in August 2021. Naomi’s father, Herve Irion, works for the US State Department and is currently in South Africa. She traveled to Nevada with Irion’s mother last week to help search for their daughter. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CHURCH OF HERIA: SUSPECTED IN HOLDING, BUT 18 YEARS OLD HE WAS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE “No information is too small to report on this point,” Irion’s mother Diana Irion told a news conference last week. “We need the help of everyone across the country. It could be anywhere.” Naomi Irion’s mother, sister and father speak at a March 22 press conference in Nevada. (Sheriff of Lyon County) Irion’s brother, Casey Valley, said that while authorities were treating his sister’s disappearance as abduction, he believed it might be a case of sex trafficking.
“It really seems like this was probably a group of people – more than one person. So we have this person in the video, but there may be some indication that other people, other vehicles, may be involved,” Valley told Fox News. Digital. “And we are working very closely with law enforcement to help them with all of this,” Valley said. “But we do not know who did it, and that’s important to convey.” CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Anyone with information about Irion’s disappearance can call a local FBI office or Lyon County Sheriff’s Office at 775-463-6620. Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.