Who is Troy Driver? Man, 41, arrested in Naomi Irion case had MURDERED drug dealer
LYON COUNTY, NEVADA: A 41-year-old man was arrested on Monday, March 25, in connection with the disappearance of Nevada's Naomi Christine Irion, the Lyon County Sheriff's Office said. Irion, who vanished two weeks ago from a parking lot of a Fernley, Nevada, Walmart, has yet to be found.
Troy Driver of Fallon, Nevada, "is being held on charges of Kidnapping," the office said in a news release. "Naomi has still not been located and we are continuing to search for her and information." It is unclear whether or not Driver has retained an attorney.
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The FBI recently put Irion on the most-wanted kidnapping victims list. "Naomi was last seen wearing a blue Panasonic company shirt, a gray cardigan sweater, gray pants, and brown boots. She was carrying a black purse. Naomi’s iPhone (10 or 11) has yet to be found," the FBI wrote. "Naomi Christine Irion was last seen in the Walmart parking lot in Fernley, Nevada, on March 12, 2022, at approximately 5 a.m., when she was abducted by a nondescript male who entered the driver’s seat of her vehicle. Three days later, Naomi’s vehicle was located next to the Sherman Williams Western Emulsion Plant. Naomi has not been located."
Who is Troy Driver?
Troy Edward Driver was reportedly convicted at age 17 in Ukiah, California, of a string of robberies. He had also admitted to being involved in the murder of a reputed drug dealer named Paul Rodriguez, according to old newspaper articles. As per old articles, Troy Edward Driver and another teen “stuffed Rodrigeuz’s body into the trunk of his car and dumped it off a highway." It also says that Driver's sister Sharla Renee Driver Cassidy was also convicted in connection with the murder. Rodriguez was reportedly a methamphetamine dealer.
Driver also pleaded guilty to three charges of second-degree robbery of a Ukiah Circle K convenience store and Chevron service stations. He was charged in a break-in of a Willits Coast-to-Coast hardware store and admitted to using a firearm. As Mendocino County court records, he was sentenced to 15 years for three robberies with firearm charges and a burglary charge.
Irion was last seen at a Walmart parking lot in Fernley, where a stranger got into her car, took the wheel, and drove off. There's now an active effort to find her, being led by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office in Nevada, which has so far been unsuccessful. According to her family, she leaves her car there and takes the company bus to her job at the Panasonic Gigafactory. Security footage shows her sitting in her 1992 Mercury Sable when a man approaches her and motions her to slide into the passenger seat. He then takes the wheel and drives off. CCTV footage from earlier in the day shows her at a store, dressed in a blue Panasonic top with a grey coat.