The former waiter Brian Paiz He was arrested accused of the death of the singer Liam Payneproduced last October 16 in Argentina. Judge Laura Graciela Bruniard had placed him in preventive detention and had given him 24 hours to surrender. The 24-year-old man, accused of having supplied drugs to the former member of the group One Directionwas finally apprehended this Friday. He is also subject to an embargo for $5 million.
Paiz’s arrest came after on December 29, shortly before the end of 2024, Justice prosecuted him along with the other four accused for the death of the musical star who had a tragic end in our country when he fell from the third floor. from the Hotel CasaSur, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
That decision was made by the Criminal and Correctional Court No. 34, headed by Judge Laura Graciela Bruniard, who told both Paiz and Ezequiel Pereyra, a hotel employee, they were ordered into preventive detention and summoned them to appear at the courthouse within 24 business hours. Finally, the former waiter was arrested at his home in Berazategui on January 3 by personnel from the Special Investigations Division of the City Police.
The other target, who is also subject to an embargo for $5 million, is expected to be captured in the next few hours. Although this Friday they also went to his home, in Lomas de Zamora, Pereyra was not there, so he remains a fugitive.
Meanwhile, the businessman Roger Nores was charged with the crime of manslaughterbut without a request for arrest, although an embargo was placed on him for 50 million pesos y he was prohibited from leaving the country.
Judge Bruniard also indicted Gilda Martinthe hotel manager who was present on the day of Payne’s death and the last person charged by the prosecutor in the case Andrés Madrea. He charged manslaughter and seized her for the same amount as Nores. He blamed the person in charge of the place for the same thing. Esteban Grassi.
Paiz met the deceased singer when he was a waiter at a restaurant in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Madero, one of the most luxurious areas of Buenos Aires, and Ezequiel Pereyra He was an employee of the CasaSur hotel, where Payne died. Both were prosecuted for the crime of supply of narcotics for considerationwhich provides for 4 to 15 years in prison.
The researchers blame each one having provided the former One Direction with drugs on two occasions.
For justice, The chats between Paiz and Payne were the key to the accusation against the waiter who has been fired from the Puerto Madero restaurant where he worked after being accused of the musician’s death. Security cameras support conversations.
“In the chat between Paiz and Payne of the order in the early morning of October 14 There is a photo of the 5 gram bag of cocaine that he offers you.. In the morning of that same day, he tells the singer that It has 3 grams and 7. Payne takes a taxi and goes to look for the drug“, sources with access to the file told Infobae.
In the case of Pereyra21 years old and an employee of the CasaSur hotel who on the day of the tragedy “was suspended from work for 30 days for having given drugs to a guest”, is accused of having supplied cocaine on October 15 at 7:25 AM and 16 October at 3:47 p.m.
“Received 100 dollars and in the chat on the day of death, the deceased asked him: ‘7 grams more than what you gave me yesterday’. Then, He delivers it by locking the elevator door in the basement. and that is on video,” the sources of the case pointed out.
Noreswho accompanied Payne while he was in Buenos Aires, had been accused by prosecutor Madrea of the crimes of abandonment of person followed by death and facilitation of narcotics. The judge considered that he was facing manslaughter.
A Martín already Grassithe manager and the manager of the hotel where the musician died, respectively, the prosecutor was already investigating them for Payne’s manslaughter, since when They called 911 for assistance for the singer, because he was taking a crisis mental health, They said they took him back to his room from the third floor.
Payne stayed at the CasaSur hotel at midnight on October 13 and died three days later after falling from the balcony of his third-floor room. The results of the autopsy They concluded that Payne died due to polytrauma and internal and external bleeding. Toxicological examinations on samples of urine, blood and vitreous humor were key: it was found alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant.
“The results of the toxicological studies revealed that, in the moments before his death, and in the period of, at least, his last 72 hours; Payne only had traces of polyconsumption of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant in his body.“, reads the official information.
The experts They ruled out any type of self-harm or third-party interventionopening the possibility that Payne fell already fainted: “The victim did not adopt a reflex posture to protect himself in the fall, so, for the moment, it can be inferred that could have fallen into a state of semi or total unconsciousness”.
And they said: “The phenomenon of the lack of defense or conservation reflex in the fall, together with other relevant data due to its consumption, allows us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was in a state of markedly diminished or abolished consciousness at the time of the fall.”
For researchers, this situation also would rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim, since, in the state in which he was going through, I didn’t know what I was doing nor could I understand it.
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