The investigation surrounding Liam Payne‘s death continues to unfold.
On Wednesday, the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office announced in a press release that three suspects — “one who accompanied the artist daily during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires,” a hotel employee and an alleged drug dealer — have been arrested and charged in connection to the late One Direction singer’s death.
According to the release, “several dozen testimonies were received at the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, including from hotel staff, family members and friends, medical professionals, biochemists and psychiatrists.”
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Additionally, more than 800 hours of video footage from various hotel security cameras and others on public roads were reviewed, as well as the content of Payne’s cell phone, including calls, messages, and chats on messaging applications and social networks.
The first person accused, someone who “accompanied the artist on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires,” was charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, the release states.
“The second defendant is a hotel employee who must answer for two proven supplies of cocaine to Liam Payne during the period he was at the hotel, and the third, also a drug supplier, is accused of two other clearly proven supplies during two different times on October 14.”
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Both were charged with the crime of supplying narcotics.
Payne died on Oct. 16 as a “result of the fall he suffered from the balcony of the third floor room of the hotel in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo where he was staying,” according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 16, temporarily headed by Marcelo Roma.
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Authorities confirmed Payne died after 5 p.m. at the Casa Sur hotel in the Palermo district, located on Costa Rica Street. An employee called the emergency line to ask for help for a guest who was “under the influence of drugs and alcohol who had destroyed some objects in the room.”
The Buenos Aires police said they found Payne’s hotel room “in complete disarray” with “various items broken.” Packs of clonazepam (commonly sold under the brand name Klonopin and works as a central nervous system depressant), energy supplements and other over-the-counter drugs were found strewn among his belongings, according to The Associated Press. Forensics teams also reported that a whiskey bottle, lighter and cellphone were retrieved from the internal courtyard where Payne’s body was found.
The Associated Press reported that initial toxicology results showed that the 31-year-old died with cocaine in his system.
Payne had one child, a 7-year-old son, Bear, with ex-girlfriend Cheryl Cole.
Fox News Digital’s Tracy Wright and The Associated Press contributed to this post.
