On his first day in the United States after his release from a Guatemalan jail, tech millionaire John McAfee ate sushi, shopped on Lincoln Road and talked about his escapades for the past year — some of which sounded like a script from a telenovela.
“I have no future, and if I have no future, that means I have no fear,” said McAfee, the 67-year-old inventor of McAfee anti-virus software. “I can’t say how long I’m going to stay in Miami because I have no plans.”
He talked about his escape from Belize on Dec. 2, the two days he spent in a Guatemala City hotel and his week in immigration detention for not getting his passport stamped when he snuck into the country. He blamed his arrest on Guatemalan officials not wanting to jeopardize the country’s delicate relationship with neighboring Belize.
McAfee said his troubles with Belizean authorities began long before the shooting death of his neighbor, American Gregory Faull last month.
Months earlier, he said, corrupt Belizean authorities demanded $2 million, promising to give him land and services worth at least $20 million in return. McAfee said that when he refused the deal, the country’s Gang Suppression Unit raided his house on April 30, “shot my dog, destroyed property” and left him handcuffed outside in the sun for 14 hours.
After McAfee took his plight to the international media, Belizean authorities admitted a raid took place.
When his neighbor’s body was discovered on Nov. 11, McAfee said he found out about it the next morning. A Belizean official with the Gang Suppression Unit named McAfee as a person of interest.
As police showed up to raid his house again, he slipped out, escaping into Guatemala by illegally crossing the border with his girlfriend Sam and a reporter and photographer from New York City-based Vice magazine. When the magazine unwittingly posted a photo tagged with his location, he said he knew authorities would be coming for him.
He contacted his lawyer, Telesforo Guerro, the former attorney general of Guatemala, giving Guerro his unstamped passport.
When 50 Guatemalan officers showed up at his hotel in Guatemala City on Dec. 5, he said they asked for his passport. When he couldn’t produce it, they took him away.
For the week he was in immigration detention, McAfee said he was posting on his blog whoismcafee.com under the alias Harold M.
When he was released Wednesday morning to be deported to the United States, he said he didn’t know where he was going until he saw “Miami” at the gate where his flight was leaving out of Guatemala City. When he arrived at Miami International Airport, federal agents met him and handed him his passport.
He said he was never questioned by the IRS or the FBI.
On Thursday, his first full day of freedom, McAfee emerged from the Beacon Hotel and was mobbed by reporters and tourists. In the crowd was cabbie Frankie Camacho, who handed him a phone number on a slip of paper. Ten minutes later, McAfee was in Camacho’s cab with two reporters in tow.
McAfee was in need of clothes. He said he’d arrived in Miami the night before with nothing but the suit he was wearing and two laptops. Camacho drove to Ross Dress for Less on Alton and Fifth Street.
“Ross! Perfect! Dress for less!” McAfee said, handing Camacho a wad of bills to turn off the meter and be his driver for the day.














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