{"id":119041,"date":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/04\/one-of-five-suspects-charged-in-connection-with-liam-paynes-death-now-in-police-custody\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","slug":"one-of-five-suspects-charged-in-connection-with-liam-paynes-death-now-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/04\/one-of-five-suspects-charged-in-connection-with-liam-paynes-death-now-in-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"One of five suspects charged in connection with Liam Payne&#8217;s death now in police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/Getty_LiamPayne_110624.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for MTV &amp; DIRECTV NOW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the five suspects charged in connection to the death of<strong> One Direction<\/strong>&#8216;s<strong> Liam Payne<\/strong> presented himself to Argentinian police to be put in custody, as ordered by an Argentinian judge Dec. 27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Braian Nahuel Paiz<\/strong>, 24, is currently at the police station and will be transferred to jail soon, his lawyer told ABC News. He turned himself in on Jan. 2, the lawyer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paiz is accused of having sold drugs to Liam before the singer&#8217;s death on Oct. 16, 2024, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Liam died after falling from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room; a toxicology report subsequently found various substances, including cocaine, in his body.<\/p>\n<p>Another suspect charged with selling drugs to Payne, who&#8217;s been ordered to be held in jail ahead of trial, hasn&#8217;t surrendered yet, according to sources ABC News has spoken with.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, in addition to the two people suspected of selling drugs to Liam, the other people who&#8217;ve been charged with his death include Liam&#8217;s friend<strong> Rog\u00e9rio Nores<\/strong>, and the hotel manager and the receptionist of the hotel where Liam was staying. All three of them have been charged with manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>A trial date for all five will be set in January, sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for MTV &amp; DIRECTV NOW One of the five suspects charged in connection to the death of One Direction&#8216;s Liam Payne presented himself to Argentinian police to be put in custody, as ordered by an Argentinian judge Dec. 27. Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, is currently at the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/04\/one-of-five-suspects-charged-in-connection-with-liam-paynes-death-now-in-police-custody\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}