A hotel worker accused of delivering drugs to Liam Payne in a soap box shortly before his death in Buenos Aires has turned himself in to police in Argentina after being on the run.
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00:00Well, slowly but surely, authorities in Argentina
00:02are bringing in all of their suspects
00:05in the Liam Payne death investigation.
00:08Today, one of the hotel workers who
00:10was accused of supplying drugs to Liam,
00:13in fact, we got video where you could actually
00:16see the handoff happening outside of an elevator.
00:20That hotel worker has now turned himself
00:23into police in Buenos Aires.
00:26I want to say something about this.
00:27We did a documentary, which is now on Hulu, Liam Payne,
00:31Who's to Blame?
00:33And I got to tell you something.
00:35When they charge a person with supplying drugs,
00:40like a Mac Miller case, like a Matthew Perry case,
00:43those drugs were the cause of his death, overdosing.
00:48This was not an overdose.
00:51This was not an overdose death.
00:54And this is why, I mean, look, I'm
00:56just going to say my personal opinion about this
00:58is these are scapegoats, that you're
01:01charging a waiter who did drugs two days before Liam even
01:05died with him at Liam's.
01:06And I'm not blaming Liam.
01:08I'm just saying that this guy, Brian the waiter,
01:11is facing years in prison because Liam
01:15asked him to come to the hotel and do cocaine with him.
01:18And that wasn't even the day he died.
01:20But this is not an overdose case.
01:23And because it's not an overdose case,
01:25it feels like these are scapegoats
01:28because the Argentinian authorities just
01:31want to show we can be tough on situations
01:33where a celebrity dies.
01:35But is there anything to that drug binge, drugs and booze,
01:41that binge put Liam in the frame of mind
01:45where he tried to escape from that room?
01:49I mean, it certainly contributed to the hotel employees
01:55taking him up to the room, right?
01:56Because he's lashing out, freaking out in the lobby.
02:01They don't want to have that scene,
02:02so they drag him up to the room.
02:04Now, I agree with you that, to me, looking at this,
02:07it seems like the hotel should bear more responsibility
02:11as well.
02:12But is there not more responsibility?
02:15But is there not an argument for you're
02:17supplying someone with illegal narcotics that put them?
02:20Charles, he drank whiskey all day long.
02:24That alone would be enough to get somebody in that state.
02:28True.
02:28And whiskey is legal, so what are they going to do?
02:30If there's any blame here, the blame
02:35is when they carried him up to the room
02:37and they knew he was in that shape.
02:39And they talked even about, oh my god,
02:41there's a balcony there.
02:43Leave a person in the room with him
02:45until an ambulance gets there.
02:47If there's any blame, it's not about the drugs.
02:50It's about, why didn't they leave somebody in the room?
02:53But to charge a guy where it's not an overdose death
02:57and to charge a guy that did drugs consensually with Liam,
03:01who didn't even charge him, days before he died, to me,
03:07is a scapegoat.
03:08And what's interesting here, guys,
03:09is it's been reported that authorities
03:12had their eye on him over the last several weeks.
03:15They were kind of keeping an eye on residences
03:17he was spending his time at, another business
03:19that he had been working at.
03:21And he knew that they were watching him.
03:24And so it's believed that that pressure helped him,
03:27helped get him to turn himself in today.
03:31That's weird.
03:31I mean, why wouldn't they just have arrested him?
03:33They had already made it very clear
03:35that he was what they wanted him for.
03:37Why they didn't just arrest him is strange.
03:40This feels wrong to me.
03:43And again, it is a tragedy.
03:46And it is a, that's Brian, our producer,
03:50talking to one of the hotel workers who was charged.
03:53And this is the guy who allegedly supplied him drugs,
03:56or one of them.
03:57But again, Liam did not die from an overdose.
04:01Liam had whiskey that day, and that alone could do this.
04:05And it just feels like they are looking
04:08for a pound of flesh to avenge a tragic death.
04:12Hi, Carrots from New York.
04:13I just think it's awful either way
04:15that a hotel worker is doubling as a drug dealer,
04:19smuggling in drugs into a hotel.
04:22And then the fact that he went on the run
04:24for a couple months makes it seem a little bit more sketchy.
04:27You don't know what was in the drugs.
04:29It's already dangerous enough taking drugs.
04:32And then especially you're out of the country
04:34sharing drugs with the hotel workers.
04:36It just all seems a little sketch to me,
04:38but condolences to the family.
04:40The hotel worker did not do drugs with Liam.
04:43Liam asked him to get him drugs, and he got him drugs.
04:47And he didn't die from an overdose.
04:50And you say what to that?
04:52I say that you still want to feel some sort of protection
04:56when you're traveling and you're on the road.
04:59You still kind of want to feel some sort of protection.
05:02Just for me, I'm just not into that.
05:04I mean, they are illegal narcotics, but I get your point.
05:08Charging him in Liam Payne's death
05:11doesn't seem to match up.
05:13You want to charge him for supplying drugs,
05:15that's a different thing.
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