The investigation regarding Liam PayneThe death could soon lead to the arrest of two men who allegedly supplied the singer with drugs.
The police could make an arrest Braian Nahuel Paiz And Ezequiel Pereyra during the holiday season, a court reporter claimed Us weekly on Wednesday, December 11th. Both are alleged to have supplied Payne with cocaine before he died on October 16 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paiz, a suspect whom Payne met at the restaurant where Paiz works as a waiter, previously denied supplying drugs to the musician in a Nov. 9 interview with Argentina's Telephone notifications. He claimed that Payne was “already under the influence of drugs” when the two exchanged information and later met at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, where Payne was staying. “We did drugs together, but I never brought him drugs or accepted money,” Paiz claimed.
In addition to being a hotel manager, Pereyra is an employee at CasaSur Gilda Martin And Esteban Reynaldo Grassithe hotel's security chief. Martin and Grassi also face involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with Payne's death, the source said Us on Wednesday.
One of the three suspects being investigated for his alleged role in Liam Payne's death is speaking out weeks after the singer's fatal fall. During an interview with Argentine broadcaster Telefe Noticias broadcast on Saturday, November 9, Braian Nahuel Paiz, who was accused of supplying Payne with narcotics, denied dealing drugs with the late musician. Paiz, a 24-year-old […]
Javier Mozoa reporter at American televisionpreviously claimed in the Argentine news channel that there are “22 forensic examinations of various cell phones and laptops that the court has requested for the investigation of the cybercrime department of the metropolitan police.” In particular – and pay attention to this detail – there is a forensic piece that investigators and Court consider this to be extremely significant,” he said. “It affects the DVR of this restaurant, which is right next door but shares a backyard area with CasaSur.”
According to Mozo, “Investigators are trying to figure out how he fell – it sounds harsh but it's the truth – they're trying to understand the seconds before Liam Payne's body hit the ground.” It's common knowledge that his head hit hit the base of an umbrella. “What they want to investigate is the immediate moments before Payne fell from the third floor to the ground floor.”
After the tragedy, head of the Buenos Aires emergency services Alberto Crescenti stated that the 31-year-old One Direction star suffered “serious injuries” that first responders were unable to treat when they arrived at the scene of the accident at the hotel.
Payne's preliminary autopsy report said he died from multiple injuries, including “internal and external bleeding,” and that he suffered “multiple traumas” that contributed to his death.
ABC News later reported that a partial autopsy revealed that Payne had “pink cocaine” – a recreational drug that typically mixes methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA – as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack cocaine in his system at the time of his death.
Prosecutors announced Nov. 7 that three people had been charged with abandonment resulting in death and supplying and arranging narcotics in connection with Payne's death.
HUGO/MEGA investigators are searching for answers about what led to Liam Payne's death. On October 16, 2024, the former One Direction member fell to his death from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. He was 31 years old. A press release from the Argentine Prosecutor's Office dated November 7, 2024: […]
Prosecutor Andres Esteban Madrea had called for the arrest of the three people in a 180-page indictment filed by the judge Laura Graciela Bruniard.
“The first defendant, a companion of the artist during his stay in Buenos Aires, was charged with abandonment resulting in death – a crime under Article 106 of the Penal Code, punishable by five to 15 years in prison – in connection with the supply and facilitation of drug trafficking “, says the statement.
The statement continued: “The second defendant, a hotel employee, is accused of supplying cocaine to Payne on two occasions during his stay at the hotel, and the third defendant, also a drug supplier, is accused of two additional confirmed cases of cocaine supply.” 14 .October. Both are charged with drug trafficking.”
The forensic team also ruled out “self-harm or third-party involvement” in Payne's death, noting that his “lack of defensive posture upon impact is suggestive of this.” [he] could have fallen into a semi-conscious or completely unconscious state.”
Following the indictment, Payne's boyfriend Rogelio “Roger” Nores denied involvement in the incident, despite visiting the singer's hotel on the day of his death.
“I never let Liam down. I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened,” Nores said Daily Mail in a statement on November 7th. “When I left there were over 15 people in the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him. I never imagined something like this would happen.”
The continuing investigation into Liam Payne's death could lead to further charges following an earlier indictment against three people. Court documents obtained by Rolling Stone on Tuesday, December 10, show that a judge is weighing charges against two employees of the Hotel CasaSur Palermo — including the receptionist who called 911 and the hotel manager. “There’s been ever since […]
Nores added that he was “heartbroken” by the tragedy and that he “misses my friend every day.”
A report from Rolling Stone on Tuesday, December 10, revealed that a judge was weighing charges against a hotel manager (allegedly Martin) as well as the receptionist who called 911.
The publication also reported that the receptionist — who made two 911 calls the morning of Payne's death — still works at the hotel. Rolling Stone shared details from the 911 call in which the receptionist told dispatchers that a guest had “too many drugs and alcohol” and was “trashing the entire room.”
There was also apparently a second emergency call in which the receptionist stated that a guest's life was “possibly in danger.”
“Are you sending the police too or not?” he asked in the second call, per Rolling Stoneand asks the dispatcher to “only” send SAME, the Argentine rescue service.
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