3 arrested, charged in connection with Liam Paynes death: Argentinian authorities NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

Three people were charged in relation to the death of singer Liam Payne, Argentina’s public prosecutor announced in a statement Thursday.

The prosecutor’s statement said that during the investigation into Payne’s death, “illicit conduct was discovered from which three people were charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

The former One Direction member fell from the balcony of a Buenos Aires hotel on Oct. 16.

Someone who was with Payne on a daily basis while he was in Buenos Aires is charged with abandoning a person following death, Andrés Madrea’s statement said.

A hotel employee is accused of supplying Payne with cocaine twice while he stayed at the hotel, the statement said, and a third person is accused of supplying drugs to the singer twice during his stay on Oct. 14.

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