Investigate in Liam PayneThe singer's death may soon lead to the arrest of two men who were alleged to have supplied the singer with drugs.
The police can make an arrest Brian Nahuel Baez and Ezequiel Pereira During the holiday season, a court reporter claimed that Us Weekly On Wednesday, December 11th. Both allegedly supplied Payne with cocaine before his death on October 16 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Baez, the suspect whom Payne met at the restaurant where Baez worked as a waiter, had previously denied providing drugs to the musician in a November 9 interview with the Argentine newspaper. Television news. He claimed Payne was “actually under the influence of drugs” as the two exchanged information and later met at the CasaSur Palermo hotel, where Payne was staying. “We did drugs together, but I never did drugs with him or accepted any money,” Baez alleged.
Pereira is an employee of CasaSur along with the hotel manager Gilda Martin and Esteban Reynaldo GracieHead of hotel security. Martin and Gracie also face manslaughter charges in connection with Payne's death, the source said. we Wednesday.
Javier Muzoreporter at America TVpreviously claimed on the Argentine news station that there were “22 forensic checks on different cell phones and laptops that the court asked the cybercrime division of the city police to investigate.” In particular – and pay attention to this detail – there is one piece of forensics that the investigators and the court found to be of great interest.” “It has to do with the DVR of this restaurant, which is located right next door but shares the backyard area with CasaSur.”
According to Mozzo, 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 ended up on the ground. It is known that his head hit the base of the parachute. But what they want to determine are the immediate moments before Payne fell from the third floor to the ground floor.”
After the tragedy, the head of emergency services in Buenos Aires Alberto Crescente The 31-year-old One Direction star was mentioned He suffered “serious injuries” Which first responders were unable to treat by the time they arrived on scene at the hotel.
Payne's preliminary autopsy report stated that he died from multiple injuries involving “internal and external bleeding” and suffered “multiple traumas” that contributed to his death.
ABC News later reported that a partial autopsy had been revealed Payne was using “pink cocaine.” – A recreational drug mix – typically methamphetamine, ketamine and ecstasy – as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack in his system at the time of his death.
The Public Prosecutor's Office announced this on November 7 Three individuals have been charged with abandonment resulting in death and supplying and facilitating drugs in relation to Payne's death.
Prosecutor Andres Esteban Madria He had requested the arrest of the three people in a 180-page indictment submitted by the judge Laura Graciela Bruniard.
“The first accused, who accompanied the artist during his stay in Buenos Aires, was charged with desertion resulting in death – a crime under Article 106 of the Criminal Code, punishable by imprisonment for a period of between five and 15 years – in conjunction with offering and facilitating drug trafficking,” the statement read. .
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, who is also a drug supplier, is charged with two additional confirmed cases of supplying cocaine on 14 October. Both are accused of drug smuggling.
The forensic team also ruled out “self-harm or third party involvement” in connection with Payne's death and noted that his “lack of defensive posture upon impact suggests he may have fallen into a semi-unconscious or completely unconscious state.”
After the indictment, Payne's friend Rogelio “Roger” Norris He denied his involvement In the incident, despite his visit to the singer’s hotel on the day of his death.
“I never gave up on Liam. I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened.” Daily Mail In a November 7 statement. “There were more than 15 people in the hotel lobby talking and joking with him when I left. I never imagined something like this would happen.”
Norris added that he was “heartbroken” by the tragedy and was “missing my friend every day.”
Report by Rolling Stone on Tuesday, December 10 that a judge was considering charges against the hotel manager (ostensibly Martin) as well as the receptionist who called 911.
The post also reported that the receptionist — who made two 911 calls on the morning of Payne's death — still works at the hotel. Rolling Stone He shared details from a 911 call, where the receptionist told dispatchers that the guest had “a lot of drugs and alcohol” and was “ruining the whole room.”
It also appears that a second 911 call was made in which the receptionist stated that a guest's life “could be in danger.”
“Are you going to send the police too or not?” He asked on the second call per Rolling Stonethe sender is “only” asked to send SAME, which is Argentina's emergency medical service.
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