‘On the run’ hotel worker accused of selling Liam Payne drugs hands himself in
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The ‘on-the-run’ hotel worker accused of selling Liam Payne drugs has turned himself in four days after the singer’s other alleged dealer was arrested. Ezequiel David Pereyra, 21, is said to have negotiated his surrender to the authorities through his lawyer.
Police had come away empty-handed after heading to his home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Friday with an arrest warrant so he could be taken into pre-trial custody. Pereyra’s unnamed lawyer informed officials yesterday his client would hand himself in at a building at Hornos 200, according to local reports.
It was not immediately clear if it was number 200 of a main road called General Hornos near Buenos Aires’ famous La Boca neighbourhood or the same location in a smaller residential street a short drive from Pereyra’s home address in Lomas de Zamora on the outskirts of the Argentine capital.
A source told respected Argentinian news daily La Nacion: ‘After Friday’s operation a place where police believed he was working and other residential addresses were put under surveillance and because of the pressure he did the right thing with help from his lawyer.’.
Pereyra, suspended from his job at CasaSur Palermo Hotel – where Payne fell to his death from his third-floor balcony on October 16 – is understood to have been formally read his rights before being taken into custody so he could be taken to prison on the orders of Judge Laura Bruniard.