Mcafee says U.S. has not questioned him
Antivirus software founder John McAfee said U.S. authorities have made no efforts to question him since he arrived in Miami after weeks of evading Belizean authorities who want to question him in the death of his neighbour there.
“Why would they want to question me, about what?” a tired-looking but jauntily dressed McAfee, a 67-year-old British native, said Thursday from the steps of his South Beach hotel.
McAfee was deported from Guatemala on Wednesday after sneaking in illegally from Belize, where police want to question him in connection with the death of a U.S. expatriate who lived near him on an island off the country’s coast. McAfee says he did not kill the neighbour.
U.S. officials said there was no active arrest warrant for McAfee that would justify taking him into custody.
McAfee’s expulsion from Guatemala marked the last chapter in a strange, monthlong odyssey to avoid police questioning about the killing of Gregory Viant Faull.
McAfee has acknowledged that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them days before some of the dogs were poisoned, but he denies killing Faull.
McAfee hid in Belize for weeks after police pronounced him a person of interest in the killing. Belizean authorities have urged him to show up for questioning but have not lodged any formal charges against him.
McAfee has said he feared he would be killed if he turned himself in to Belizean authorities. Belize’s prime minister, Dean Barrow, has expressed doubts about McAfee’s mental state, saying: “I don’t want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers.”
On Thursday, McAfee said he will stay in Miami until his girlfriend, 20-year-old Belizean Samantha Vanegas, and a friend can join him.
The eccentric millionaire also said he was anxious for a decent breakfast after days of eating terrible Guatemalan prison food.
But he bristled as reporters repeatedly asked him why he won’t answer questions from officials in Belize, denying he was under investigation.