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3 arrested, charged in connection with Liam Paynes death: Argentinian authorities NECN [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.

Forensic workers remove the body of British singer Liam Payne from the hotel where he died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Oct. 16. (Luis Robayo / AFP – Getty Images)

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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