Liam Payne: Arrest made by Argentine authorities over One Direction singer’s death, other suspect not found

Argentine authorities have arrested one of the five people accused in the death of British singer Liam Payne in Buenos Aires.

Braian Paiz, 24, had a warrant for his arrest since last week for the crime of drug trafficking.

He was arrested at home after he failed to turn himself in to authorities after the preventive detention order was issued.

He had met Payne at a restaurant in the Puerto Madero neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, where he worked as a waiter and Payne was a customer.

Police also went to the home of Ezequiel Pereyra, an employee of the hotel where the former singer died and who also had a preventive arrest warrant for the same crime, but were unable to find him.

Both were charged last week, along with three others, by the 34th Criminal and Penitentiary Court, which is investigating the death of the former One Direction singer after he fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel on October 16.

In addition to Mr Paiz and Mr Pereyra, businessman Roger Nores, Gilda Martin, the hotel manager, and Esteban Grassi, who worked at the hotel, were also charged.

All three are accused of the crime of involuntary manslaughter.

The prosecution’s investigation proved that the musician was supplied with drugs several times during his stay at the hotel, located in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo.

The autopsy showed Payne’s death was caused by the fall from the balcony of the third-floor room of the hotel when he was probably unconscious, as the autopsy ruled out self-injury or physical intervention by third parties, concluding that he did not protect himself in the fall.