McAfee To Be Released From Guatemalan Prison

Antivirus founders lawyer said a Guatemalan judge will rule that McAfee was illegally detained, paving the way for his return to the United States.

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Antivirus founder John McAfee is set to be released from a Guatemalan jail.
Telesforo Guerra, McAfees lawyer in Guatemala,
told the
Los Angeles Times
Tuesday that Guatemalan Judge Judith Secaida verbally said to him that she plans to rule that McAfee had been illegally incarcerated.
Guerra said McAfee would be released as soon as the court could process the judges written instructions, which would likely happen Thursday or Friday. Its a victory because the government wanted to send him back to Belize, he told the newspaper via phone. With this kind of resolution, they cannot do it.
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6 Wacky McAfee Facts: From Guatemala, With Twists
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By Wednesday,
McAfees blog
posted a message saying that McAfee would be released at 9 a.m. local time that day from the immigration facility in which hes currently incarcerated in Guatemala City.
According to Guerra, Guatemalan law grants anyone who enters the country 10 days to settle their immigration status. There is no crime in coming without any visa, he said. If theres not any crime, the immigration office has to release him.
McAfee Tuesday
told Britains Sky News
that he was 100% certain that hed soon be leaving Guatemala for the United States. Hes stated multiple times that he planned to relocate there with his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sam Vanegas.
McAfee, whos resided in Belize since 2008, was
arrested last week in Guatemala
on immigration violation charges. But he posted regular blog updates, in part to criticize the Belize government for corruption, as well as for attempting to frame him for the murder of his American neighbor, Gregory Viant Faull, 52. Belize prime minister Dean Barrow has denied those charges, and instead criticized McAfee for his extremely paranoid and bonkers behavior. Furthermore, Belizean police investigators are maintaining that McAfee is a person of interest in their murder investigation, saying they want to question him. No charges, however, have been filed against McAfee. Its been a busy week for McAfee, who announced that hes
sold the rights to his life story
. He also said Tuesday that he would be ending his relationship with
Vice
magazine, which had filmed his three-week flight from Belize to Guatemala over land and by boat. Shortly after landing,
Vice
published a story, titled We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers, which included an iPhone photograph showing two of its journalists with McAfee, but declining to name their location. The EXIF data attached to the photograph, however, showed that it had been taken in Guatemala, and according to McAfee, that mishap led directly to his arrest. Due to information just received, It is no longer clear to Mr. McAfee that the accidental release of his co-ordinates due to Vice Magazines editorial departments failure to remove location data from their now notorious photo, was indeed an accident, according to a post to McAfees blog made by Harold M., whos described on the blog only as a close friend of Mr McAfee. This incident led directly to Mr. McAfees arrest, according to the post. The reason, possibly, was that Vice wanted exclusive access to Mr. McAfees arrest, which they in fact obtained and broadcast. This, and subsequent developments, including a breach of verbal contract, has led Mr. McAfee to terminate all contact with Vice.
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