Police 'are hunting second man accused of selling drugs to Liam Payne' before One Direction star fell to his death from Argentina hotel balcony By GERRARD COUZENS and SABRINA PENTY Published: 09:40, 4 January 2025 | Updated: 09:52, 4 January 2025 e-mail View comments Police were reportedly hunting the second man accused of selling Liam Payne drugs last night after arresting waiter Braian Paiz. An arrest warrant was said to have been issued fo r Ezequiel David Pereyra, 21, after he failed to answer a court summons to hand himself in for preventive detention. Respected Argentinian news website Infoabae said last night the suspended hotel worker was not at his home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when police went to execute the court order and he 'remains a fugitive.
' There has been no official response from court officials or prosecutors to the reports. Earlier yesterday evening Paiz's lawyer Fernando Madeo confirmed his client had been arrested a week after judge Laura Bruniard charged him with the same crime Pereyra has been indicted on of selling Liam drugs before the singer's third-floor plunge from the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16. She had given both men 24 hours to hand themselves in so they could be sent to jail but the arrest of Paiz and the attempted detention of Pereyra didn't take place until today.
Paiz is said to have been held by officers from the Special Investigations Division of the Buenos Aires city police force. Well-placed sources tol.
