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Fri May 4, 2012, 09:37 PM

Judi Lynn (77,566 posts)

McAfee founder booked on drug, weapons charges, report says

Source: CNET

McAfee founder booked on drug, weapons charges, report says
by Chris Matyszczyk | May 4, 2012 5:04 PM PDT

John McAfee, the man behind the anti-virus name, says he's being bugged by Belize's Gang Suppression Unit.

His home was raided by four different arms of armed Belize official organizations, including the GSU and the police. At least that is what is being reported by Channel 5 in Belize.

When I say "his home," this appears to consist of nine houses and is the site of the Belize Ecological Foundation. The Belize Gang Suppression Unit's press release declares that McAfee, 66, was there with his 17-year-old girlfriend (referred to as a minor) and five security guards.

The GSU reportedly says it discovered 10 firearms and 5 air rifles, all allegedly unlicensed. It also claims that it took samples of an alleged antibiotic that was being manufactured at this home. The GSU is sure that McAfee had no license for such a production, the report says.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57428439-71/mcafee-founder-booked-on-drug-weapons-charges-report-says/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

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16 replies	Author	Time	Post
McAfee founder booked on drug, weapons charges, report says (Original post)	Judi Lynn	May 2012	OP
Problems of success ,17 is a minor	orpupilofnature57	May 2012	#1
Frankly, he sounds like a rich man who found the limits of his money's power	htuttle	May 2012	#2
This message was self-deleted by its author	Chakab	May 2012	#11
He deserves to go to jail just for his shitty software.	Lasher	May 2012	#3
Ewweeee 17 year old girlfriend	CenaW	May 2012	#4
more	Po_d Mainiac	May 2012	#5
This makes it more believable	Po_d Mainiac	May 2012	#6
It may not be all that sudden. About two years ago, it was reported that he was	AnotherMcIntosh	May 2012	#8
The sea wall must have been the money spent in San Pedro (Ambergris Caye)	Po_d Mainiac	May 2012	#12
Did any Belize official want a campaign contribution or other token of goodwill?	AnotherMcIntosh	May 2012	#7
And pretty ambitious regarding girlfriends, it seems.	randome	May 2012	#9
1. An accusation (or suggestion) is not proof. We don't know her actual age or actual relationship.	AnotherMcIntosh	May 2012	#10
He's not from Belize , And if he's	orpupilofnature57	May 2012	#13
Considering that's over the age of consent in most of Europe and	Codeine	May 2012	#14
At age 25 ,maybe? 66 is Misanthropic	orpupilofnature57	May 2012	#15
Good. I hate his product	fuddyduddy	May 2012	#16

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Fri May 4, 2012, 09:44 PM

orpupilofnature57 (10,553 posts)

1. Problems of success ,17 is a minor

1%ers are 1%ers ,paranoid degenerates ,usually Sycophancy lets them off the hook.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 09:45 PM

htuttle (21,166 posts)

2. Frankly, he sounds like a rich man who found the limits of his money's power

Whoops...

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:01 PM

Lasher (20,466 posts)

3. He deserves to go to jail just for his shitty software.

But do you really have to get a license for an air rifle in Belize?

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:38 PM

CenaW (38 posts)

4. Ewweeee 17 year old girlfriend

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:40 PM

Po_d Mainiac (4,183 posts)

5. more

And in regards to the fatally wounded man’s best friend, the GSU says that three of the eleven dogs on the premises attacked and bit one of the officers on his right thigh. The same dog then attacked a B.D.F. soldier who responded by fatally wounded the dog.

At the end of the search, three of the security guards were arrested and charged for “Providing Security Services without a License”. While McAfee, who was initially detained and charged for the offences of Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, was later released. This aspect is still under investigation as no such licence has yet been found in the records at Police Headquarters.

http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/69891

This is pretty serious...my guess, $20-30K (U$D) to get the charges dropped.

And yes, I've spent a bit better than half a year in Belize.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:01 PM

Po_d Mainiac (4,183 posts)

6. This makes it more believable

Oddly enough, he claims that the sudden descent of men in uniform has money at its root.

As his rebuttal to the uniforms butting in and ruining his breakfast, he told Channel 5: "It began, innocently enough, with my refusal to donate to the local political boss of the district where I lived in Orange Walk."

Surely he's not suggesting that this raid by at least 30 men in uniform -- in which he was handcuffed and arrested -- wasn't a political shakedown, is he? It seems that he might be.

"I have given at least $2 million in gifts to the police departments in Orange Walk, San Pedro, Belize City, to the village of Carmelita, the City of Orange Walk, " he continued.

I am not sure whether this $2 million might have come from the reported $4 million he had left in 2009. But what is clear is that McAfee is very, very annoyed. He says that it was only the intervention of the American Embassy that got him released.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57428439-71/mcafee-founder-booked-on-drug-weapons-charges-report-says/?tag=mncol;txt

If you do Google Earth, pretty sure his compound is a klik point 5 South of the Orange Walk cane plant

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:25 PM

AnotherMcIntosh (7,511 posts)

8. It may not be all that sudden. About two years ago, it was reported that he was

visited by the police who objected to a sea-wall that he was building. Apparently, in that part of the world, doing so can prompt the police rather than a building inspector to visit you.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 01:53 AM

Po_d Mainiac (4,183 posts)

12. The sea wall must have been the money spent in San Pedro (Ambergris Caye)

His compound in Orange Walk District is a long ways from the coast.

In that part of the world, gringo's with deep pockets best know the right palms to pad.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:21 PM

AnotherMcIntosh (7,511 posts)

7. Did any Belize official want a campaign contribution or other token of goodwill?

John McAfee was a pioneer for anti-virus software and apparently is ambitious enough to try to develop native plants in Belize for antibiotic purposes.

Here's some photos and background information taken before the current dust-up.
http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/374125/Plagued_by_Lawsuits_McAfee_Hun.html

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:30 PM

randome (12,586 posts)

9. And pretty ambitious regarding girlfriends, it seems.

That in itself puts a less optimistic spin on anything else he may have done in the past.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 12:37 AM

AnotherMcIntosh (7,511 posts)

10. 1. An accusation (or suggestion) is not proof. We don't know her actual age or actual relationship.

For all we know, she might just be a bona fide lab assistant. For all we know, she might be 27.

2. He is living permanently in Belize and did not go there as a sex-tourist. The law and customs of Belize should apply. If we assume that she is 17 years old, she is past the age of consent for unmarried females in Belize which Wikipedia gives as 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America

3. It's not like he was a Mormon taking on a 14 year-old wife.

4. If she is recognized as an adult in Belize, or if she is past the age of consent in Belize, I don't think that it is any of my business.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 06:23 AM

orpupilofnature57 (10,553 posts)

13. He's not from Belize , And if he's

having sex with a seventeen year old he's a pedophile ,not my business ,my opinion. And it is an accusation ,not a bona fide fact.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 08:02 AM

Codeine (12,671 posts)

14. Considering that's over the age of consent in most of Europe and

in many states here in the US, and considering that pedophilia involves a sexual attraction to children, not young adults, your accusation of pedophilia is both ill-considered and incredibly nasty. Pedos molest little kids, not 17 year olds.

In Belize 16 is the age of consent for all unmarried females, btw.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 08:25 AM

orpupilofnature57 (10,553 posts)

15. At age 25 ,maybe? 66 is Misanthropic

Again as previously stated , My opinion not My business .

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Sat May 5, 2012, 10:36 AM

fuddyduddy (27 posts)

16. Good. I hate his product

I uninstall his crapware every time we get a new computer

I hope he loses his business and McAfee dies for good.

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