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After Bizarre Journey, McAfee Now in Miami

John McAfee was released from a Guatemalan detention center Wednesday, landing in Miami's South Beach neighborhood by the day's end.

December 13, 2012

John McAfee is home for the holidays. The antivirus pioneer from Guatemala Wednesday, and was in Miami's South Beach by the day's end.

The latest entry on McAfee's blog, which has been dutifully tracking his bizarre journey for the last month, asked that the media "Please respect John's privacy this evening," upon his arrival in the U.S.

The post, in fact, replaced an earlier message from McAfee, which said he was at the Beacon Hotel and needed help.

"I have no phone, no money, no contact information," he wrote early Thursday morning. "I was escorted off of the [plane] by Customs and Immigration. There were ten agents and they whisked me to a safe place, asked some questions and then said 'Where would you like to go?' To a Taxi stand. They did."

McAfee has been making headlines since the of his neighbor in Belize, 52-year-old American expat Gregory Faull, in which the mogul was wanted for questioning. Eluding Belizean authorities, McAfee went on the lam, illegally sneaking into Guatemala, where he and was expected to be deported back to Belize.

All the while, McAfee his participation in Faull's murder, even making a public plea for his return to the United States, where he "simply would like to live comfortably day by day."

The 67-year-old entrepreneur spoke with Good Morning America today, admitting he had been faking his in Guatemala, using the health issues as a way to avoid deportation to Belize. He also said that he'd made up parts of his story to gain news coverage, according to The Washington Post.

"What's a better story [than a] millionaire madman on the run?" he told ABC.

McAfee on Tuesday announced that he would terminate his relationship with Vice magazine, which "accidentally" revealed the fugitive's whereabouts via the location information on an iPhone photo.

This strange month-long odyssey has not been all bad for McAfee, who this week to Impact Future Media, which has plans to develop his tale, tentatively dubbed Running in the Background: The True Story of John McAfee, for use among film, print, television, and multimedia platforms.

According to the Post, authorities from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals office, and the U.S. attorney's office confirmed there there was no active arrest warrant for McAfee when he entered the country.