Ναόμι Ίριον was abducted from a Walmart car park in Fernley, Nevadaon March 12th. On Wednesday – less than a month after her disappearance – authorities removed her remains from a grave in the Coal Canyon Road area of Churchill County.
The Lyon county sheriff’s office, which handled the Orion investigation, on Thursday arrested its kidnapping suspect, Troy Driver, for murder, robbery, burglary and destruction of evidence. He is currently in custody.
Now that the search for the 18-year-old has ended, her brother, Casey Valley, expresses his concern about the initial handling of her case by the local authorities.
Naomi Irion (right); her sister, Tamara Cartwright (center); and her brother, Casey Valley (left). (Mary Lallier, Lallier Love Photography 2017)
“If you are-on-the-lookout [BOLO] a notice had been sent [March 13]”If a missing person report had been submitted, as his Lyon County Sheriff’s office is required to do, then it would not take us long to get started on this case,” Valley told Fox News Digital. “I do not know the time of my sister’s death, but there is a possibility that the law enforcement authorities found her alive.”
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Valley says that when Irion did not return home after March 12, he called her missing on March 13 at around 9:30 p.m. A deputy called about two hours later that night, but did not report any missing until the next day. Valley filed a complaint with the service on March 16 – a day after authorities discovered her vehicle.
Valley added that “many” lawmakers in Lyon County later apologized to him in person and said his complaint was “well received”.
Naomi Irion (Credit: Irion family)
“I have nothing against Lyon County. I’m so grateful that they respond to my texts at 3am and call me when there is important information and bring me to the search center and they all did their best to make sure our family is tough. “It’s been working – and it ‘s still working. And I do not want any discussion about’ police refinancing ‘to be attached. It’s about the police needing more resources,” Valley said.
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Irion lived with Valley at his home in Nevada. She moved with her brother in August 2021, when she moved to the United States from South Africa, where her American parents and three stepbrothers are currently part of her father’s State Department overseas job.
Valley also said he took video from a security camera at Walmart parking lot where his sister was last seen. Irion regularly parked her car at Walmart before catching a bus to work at a Panasonic factory, where she was making batteries, early in the morning.
Naomi Irion (Sheriff of Lyon County)
“I knew something was wrong and I knew Naomi was missing. I knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong with her character. I knew something bad had happened – I just did not know what – until I went to Walmart myself. “And I worked with the security people to try to verify if he got there or not, and then when he got there, to try to figure out why he left,” Valley said.
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Surveillance video released from Lyon County Sheriff’s office shows a suspect walking from a nearby homeless camp in Walmart on March 12 and getting into the driver’s seat of Irion’s car and then heading in an “unknown direction with Naomi to the passenger. seat.”
“My blood froze,” Valley said when she first saw the security camera video. “My heart jumped out of my chest. It was disgusting.”
Naomi Irion who kidnapped the suspected Troy Driver (Lyon County Sheriff’s Office)
Lyon County Judge Lori Matthews set $ 750,000 bail for his driver during a hearing Wednesday before officials announced additional charges. Diver had previously been sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1997 for his role in concealing a murder and a series of robberies, according to local registrations taken with News 4 and FOX 11 Reno.
It is not clear if the person in the Walmart watch video is the Driver.
The Lyon county sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry.
Irion’s family has since started using the hashtag #TrustTheFamily on social media to highlight the right instinct of families in cases of missing persons.
Tony Driver appears in court via Zoom (FOX 11 Reno / Lyon County Sheriff’s Office)
“Over the last two weeks, I have met many people who have had missing persons cases in their families. The common theme I hear from these other interested families is that the biggest examples are often treated on the same level. Concerns about police officers as good examples in the beginning “which is relatively understandable given the limited resources available to police stations and the sheriff’s offices,” Valley said.
“However, every police station in this country has procedures to follow. In fact … they have sworn to follow these procedures. In the case of my sister … the first 36 hours after I called her missing. “This case was not handled in a way that was not considered a procedural complaint”.
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Local authorities are investigating the mysterious death of the 18-year-old as homicide, although no further information has been given about her death since Friday night.
Anyone with information about the circumstances leading up to Irion’s death can call the local FBI Field Office or the Lyon Sheriff’s office at 775-463-6620.
