Overview
- Ezequiel David Pereyra received home detention with electronic monitoring by decision of the National Chamber of Criminal Cassation dated December 30 after spending more than a year in custody.
- The ruling concerns allegations that Pereyra, a CasaSur Palermo employee, supplied cocaine to Liam Payne before the singer’s fatal 2024 fall from the hotel.
- Co-defendant Braian Paiz was also granted house arrest after the court weighed his lack of prior convictions, fixed address, and low flight risk.
- Both defendants are set to be tried for delivery of narcotics for value, an offense that carries a potential prison term of roughly four to fifteen years if convicted.
- Forensic findings reported alcohol, cocaine, and a prescribed antidepressant in Payne’s system and concluded he was not fully conscious, and earlier homicide-related imputations were dropped as the case narrowed to drug supply.