overnight in Guatemala after entering that country illegally,
RadarOnline.com is reporting.
McAfee -- who had been on the run from police since the November 10th
murder of his neighbor, fellow American ex-patriot Greg Faull -- is
expected to be deported back to Belize Thursday morning, ABC News
reports.
However, if a judge finds that McAffe's life could be in danger in
Belizean custody -- as he claims -- he may not be sent back.
Just hours before his arrest by immigration police, he told ABC News
he would be seeking asylum in Guatemala.
"Thank God I am in a place where there is some sanity," said McAfee,
67, before his arrest. "I chose Guatemala carefully."
McAfee said that in Guatemala, the locals aren't surprised when he
says the Belizean government is out to kill him. "Instead of going,
'You're crazy,' they go, 'Yeah, of course they are,'" he said. "It's
like, finally, I understand people who understand the system here."
But McAfee added he has not ruled out moving back to the United
States, where he made his fortune as the inventor of anti-virus
software.
In his interview with ABC News, a jittery McAfee called the media's
representation of him a "nightmare that is about to explode," and said
he's prepared to prove his sanity.
During his three-week journey, McAfee said he disguised himself as
handicapped, dyed his hair seven times and hid in many different
places during his time on the run.
He dismissed accounts of erratic and strange behavior and reports that
he had been using the synthetic drug bath salts. He said he had never
used the drug, and said statements that he had were part of an
elaborate prank.
Investigators said that McAfee was not a suspect in the death of the
former developer, who was found shot in the head in his house on the
resort island of San Pedro, but that they wanted to question him
anyway.
McAfee told ABC News that the poisoning death of his dogs and the
murder just hours later of Faull, who had complained about his dogs,
was a coincidence.