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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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