The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the location of an 18-year-old Nevada woman who was abducted from a Walmart parking lot earlier this month and has been missing since.
Irion was catching an employee bus to work at a Reno-area Panasonic facility close to her home in Casey Valley where she lives with her older brother, officials said.
She was wearing a blue Panasonic company shirt, a gray cardigan sweater, gray pants, and brown boots and was carrying a black purse at the time she went missing.
Sheriff’s officials and the FBI haven’t detected any signal from her iPhone and have been unable to locate it since her disappearance.
Surveillance video showed a man wearing a mask and hooded sweatshirt getting into Irion’s car outside the Walmart store having previously paced up and down around the parking lot.
The vehicle then exited the parking lot.
Lyon County sheriff’s Detective Erik Kusmerz told reporters in Fernley on March 22 that Irion was active on social media and her cellphone until 5:23 a.m., a minute before the man entered her car.
Authorities said they have impounded and taken in for evidence a pickup truck that they believe may have been involved in Irion’s disappearance.
However, the investigation is still ongoing.
Irion’s older brother, Casey Valley, reported her missing when she didn’t return home on March 13. Irion had been living with her brother after moving to Nevada from the South African capital of Pretoria in August 2021.
Naomi’s father, Herve Irion works for the U.S. State Department in the foreign service and is currently stationed in South Africa alongside his wife, Diana. Irion’s parents have both flown to Nevada to help search for their daughter.
Irion is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs between 230 and 250 pounds, according to the FBI. Her hair is naturally brown but has been dyed black and she has green eyes, although officials noted that one eye has a brown tint to it. She also has a septum piercing and a tattoo of a smiley face on her right ankle.
