John McAfee captured, After weeks on the run from authorities in Belize, has multi millionaire software developer John McAfee, 67, finally been captured?
A posting on the anti-computer-virus pioneer's own blog suggests that indeed he has - which if it proves to be true will end an increasingly bizarre saga that has lasted almost a month.
Wanted by police in the Central American country for questioning regarding his neighbour's murder, whoismcafee.com was updated on Saturday afternoon with an 'unconfirmed report that John McAfee has been captured at the border of Belize and Mexico.
'McAfee has frequently used the blog to keep the world updated on his weird and wonderful attempts to evade captured in Belize, which have included dressing in outlandish disguises and swapping cell phones over to avoid satellite detection.
He has in the past claimed that there exists enough material to keep the blog going for a year and has also stated that should anything happen to him a man named Chad would be put in charge of posting information - and it seems that day has come.
In Belize, a source at the U.S. Embassy speaking anonymously to reporters said that friends of McAfee denied he had been captured and that they and the police had no information on a possible arrest.
If the outlaw software developer has been apprehended it comes directly after an interview with CNN, in which he claimed his life was in danger and that he had tired of life on the run, which he has been since his neighbour, Gregory Faull, was discovered with a bullet in his head on November 11th.
In the brief talk with a CNN reporter, McAfee said, 'I will certainly not turn myself in, and I will certainly not quit fighting. I will not stop my blog.'
Claiming that he will either be arrested or get away, clarifying 'Get away doesn't mean leave the country. It means they will, No.1, find the murderer of Mr. Faull and, No.2, the people of this country - who are by and large terrified to speak out - start speaking out.'
McAfee and Faull repeatedly had run-ins with each other the dogs that the multi-millionaire owned and in one interview with Wired claimed that the killers of Mr. Faull were looking for him in fact and not his unfortunate neighbour.
In fact, the last six months have proven to be one odd episode after another for McAfee, which began in May when his home was raided and police said they found multiple firearms and the 67-year-old living with a 17-year-old girl.
The CNN report also noted that police in Belize have said they don't consider McAfee a suspect in the killing; they say they only want him for questioning.
And yesterday, the ecentric fugitive millionaire software mogul, dropped the f-bomb on live television Friday while explaining his dislike for local politicians.
‘I do not donate to any political party. When I was asked to donate, I said, “Get the f*** off my property,”’ McAfee, 67, said during a telephone interview with CNBC from ‘an undisclosed location.’
He then apologized to the cable network for his verbal slip-up, one of many recent gaffes.
McAfee was in the midst of recounting an incident earlier this month in which 42 armed Belizean officers allegedly stormed his compound, arrested him and detained him for 14 hours with no food or water, and then let him go without charges.
When CNBC reporter, Robert Frank, asked McAfee why he thought the police had done that, he said it was because he ‘does not play by the rules.’
McAfee said that he has donated millions of dollars to the local economy, including police departments and homeless agencies, but not through the Belizean government itself.
‘I don’t do it by giving to the government and letting them dole it out because if I give $5 million to the government, $10,000 goes to the people and $4 million plus change goes into the pockets of the politicians,’ he said. ‘I give directly to the people. And I have been doing this all along.’
McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software company that bears his last name, said he has been hiding out in the jungles if Belize and wearing disguises in public when he needs to purchase supplies.
He would not say what the disguises look like because he has ‘a feeling’ he will be wearing them again soon, he said.
The fugitive software mogul has been on the run from local police since November 11, the day after his American neighbour, Greg Faull, a 52-year-old contractor from Florida, was found shot in the head.
Two days before Faull's body was discovered, four of McAfee's dogs were poisoned to death, making McAfee a 'person of interest,' Belize authorities have said.
McAfee says he is innocent and that he will not turn himself in. He has said on several occasions that he will be killed if he is taken into custody.
He has also said the he was set up by the Belizean government and that it all goes back to a bribe he didn't pay to a politician.
But he is certainly not shying away from reporters while hiding out.Over the past three weeks he has given multiple media appearances, including two interviews with CNBC, an interview with The Daily Telegraph, an interview with ABC News, and an interview with Wired Magazine.
He also set up a blog, where he details his jungle adventures, his ongoing claims of government corruption, his thoughts about the highly addictive drug bath salts, and his own personal investigation into Faull’s murder.
A few days after the news of his hiding made headlines, McAfee logged onto the Internet to seek technical support on how phone tracking works, Gizmodo reported.
Not surprisingly, skeptics are disputing the validity of McAfee’s claims.
The fugitive software mogul told CNBC Friday that he is beginning to run out of money and is having trouble getting cash from his bank in Belize.
‘My life has been up and down from a comfort standpoint,’ he told CNBC.
McAfee said he has no plans to leave the Central American country bordered to the north by Mexico, to the south and west by Guatemala, and to the east by the Caribbean Sea.‘This is my home,’ he said.
McAfee has not been formally charged with murder and is only wanted for questioning, according to Belize National Security Ministry spokesman Raphael Martinez.
The country’s prime minister Dean Barrow has called McAfee ‘extremely paranoid, even bonkers.’
McAfee, who relocated to Belize in 2008 after losing an estimated $96 million due to bad investments, founded his namesake software company in 1987, initially running it out of his home in California.
He sold his stake in McAfee Associates in 1994.
McAfee was employed as a programmer by NASA's Institute for Space Studies in New York City from 1968 to 1970. He has also worked for Xerox, Computer Sciences Corporation and Lockheed.
A posting on the anti-computer-virus pioneer's own blog suggests that indeed he has - which if it proves to be true will end an increasingly bizarre saga that has lasted almost a month.
Wanted by police in the Central American country for questioning regarding his neighbour's murder, whoismcafee.com was updated on Saturday afternoon with an 'unconfirmed report that John McAfee has been captured at the border of Belize and Mexico.
'McAfee has frequently used the blog to keep the world updated on his weird and wonderful attempts to evade captured in Belize, which have included dressing in outlandish disguises and swapping cell phones over to avoid satellite detection.
He has in the past claimed that there exists enough material to keep the blog going for a year and has also stated that should anything happen to him a man named Chad would be put in charge of posting information - and it seems that day has come.
In Belize, a source at the U.S. Embassy speaking anonymously to reporters said that friends of McAfee denied he had been captured and that they and the police had no information on a possible arrest.
If the outlaw software developer has been apprehended it comes directly after an interview with CNN, in which he claimed his life was in danger and that he had tired of life on the run, which he has been since his neighbour, Gregory Faull, was discovered with a bullet in his head on November 11th.
In the brief talk with a CNN reporter, McAfee said, 'I will certainly not turn myself in, and I will certainly not quit fighting. I will not stop my blog.'
Claiming that he will either be arrested or get away, clarifying 'Get away doesn't mean leave the country. It means they will, No.1, find the murderer of Mr. Faull and, No.2, the people of this country - who are by and large terrified to speak out - start speaking out.'
McAfee and Faull repeatedly had run-ins with each other the dogs that the multi-millionaire owned and in one interview with Wired claimed that the killers of Mr. Faull were looking for him in fact and not his unfortunate neighbour.
In fact, the last six months have proven to be one odd episode after another for McAfee, which began in May when his home was raided and police said they found multiple firearms and the 67-year-old living with a 17-year-old girl.
The CNN report also noted that police in Belize have said they don't consider McAfee a suspect in the killing; they say they only want him for questioning.
And yesterday, the ecentric fugitive millionaire software mogul, dropped the f-bomb on live television Friday while explaining his dislike for local politicians.
‘I do not donate to any political party. When I was asked to donate, I said, “Get the f*** off my property,”’ McAfee, 67, said during a telephone interview with CNBC from ‘an undisclosed location.’
He then apologized to the cable network for his verbal slip-up, one of many recent gaffes.
McAfee was in the midst of recounting an incident earlier this month in which 42 armed Belizean officers allegedly stormed his compound, arrested him and detained him for 14 hours with no food or water, and then let him go without charges.
When CNBC reporter, Robert Frank, asked McAfee why he thought the police had done that, he said it was because he ‘does not play by the rules.’
McAfee said that he has donated millions of dollars to the local economy, including police departments and homeless agencies, but not through the Belizean government itself.
‘I don’t do it by giving to the government and letting them dole it out because if I give $5 million to the government, $10,000 goes to the people and $4 million plus change goes into the pockets of the politicians,’ he said. ‘I give directly to the people. And I have been doing this all along.’
McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software company that bears his last name, said he has been hiding out in the jungles if Belize and wearing disguises in public when he needs to purchase supplies.
He would not say what the disguises look like because he has ‘a feeling’ he will be wearing them again soon, he said.
The fugitive software mogul has been on the run from local police since November 11, the day after his American neighbour, Greg Faull, a 52-year-old contractor from Florida, was found shot in the head.
Two days before Faull's body was discovered, four of McAfee's dogs were poisoned to death, making McAfee a 'person of interest,' Belize authorities have said.
McAfee says he is innocent and that he will not turn himself in. He has said on several occasions that he will be killed if he is taken into custody.
He has also said the he was set up by the Belizean government and that it all goes back to a bribe he didn't pay to a politician.
But he is certainly not shying away from reporters while hiding out.Over the past three weeks he has given multiple media appearances, including two interviews with CNBC, an interview with The Daily Telegraph, an interview with ABC News, and an interview with Wired Magazine.
He also set up a blog, where he details his jungle adventures, his ongoing claims of government corruption, his thoughts about the highly addictive drug bath salts, and his own personal investigation into Faull’s murder.
A few days after the news of his hiding made headlines, McAfee logged onto the Internet to seek technical support on how phone tracking works, Gizmodo reported.
Not surprisingly, skeptics are disputing the validity of McAfee’s claims.
The fugitive software mogul told CNBC Friday that he is beginning to run out of money and is having trouble getting cash from his bank in Belize.
‘My life has been up and down from a comfort standpoint,’ he told CNBC.
McAfee said he has no plans to leave the Central American country bordered to the north by Mexico, to the south and west by Guatemala, and to the east by the Caribbean Sea.‘This is my home,’ he said.
McAfee has not been formally charged with murder and is only wanted for questioning, according to Belize National Security Ministry spokesman Raphael Martinez.
The country’s prime minister Dean Barrow has called McAfee ‘extremely paranoid, even bonkers.’
McAfee, who relocated to Belize in 2008 after losing an estimated $96 million due to bad investments, founded his namesake software company in 1987, initially running it out of his home in California.
He sold his stake in McAfee Associates in 1994.
McAfee was employed as a programmer by NASA's Institute for Space Studies in New York City from 1968 to 1970. He has also worked for Xerox, Computer Sciences Corporation and Lockheed.
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