Outlandish tech titan McAfee wanted for murder in Belize: report

One of the men credited with inventing antivirus software is on the run from murder charges, according to police in Belize.

John McAfee is the prime suspect in the murder of another American expatriate, Gregory Faull, who was shot once in the back of his head Saturday night in his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye, according to tech blog Gizmodo.

McAfee’s motive for allegedly killing Faull, a popular builder originally from California, is unclear, but just last week Faull filed a formal complaint with the mayor’s office against McAfee because the antivirus king wildly fired guns off and exhibited “roguish behavior.”

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The murder charges against McAfee are the latest in a long line of strange stories about the former tech titan.

McAfee's bizarre life came to the fore in 1992 when he sold his stake in the company he founded for $100 million and became a thrill-seeking adventurer.

After a series of bad business investments, including a yoga ashram in Colorado and an aerotrekking business in New Mexico, McAfee and some of his friends moved into a compound on Ambergris Caye, in Belize.

There McAfee and a partner claimed to be studying jungle herbs including one which they said boosted the female libido.

However, McAfee's jungle herb studies floundered in 2010 whereupon he allegedly started posting on a Russian drug message board called Bluelight under the pseudonym “Stuffmonger” about his attempts to purify the drug MDPV.

The drug, commonly known as “bath salts,” made headlines in June after a homeless man in Miami allegedly took the drug before eating the face off of another homeless man.

“I’m a huge fan of MDPV,” McAfee wrote in one post, “I think it’s the finest drug ever conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexualty, but also for the super smooth euphoria and mild comedown.”

After posting over 200 messages, “Stuffmonger” disappeared off the message board in 2011 with members of the drug community questioning the legitimacy of his posts.

“Stuffmonger’s claims were discredited and he vanished,” a senior moderator later wrote.

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Additional PATH train service between Manhattan and NJ to resume Monday morning

TRENTON, NJ — PATH train service between Manhattan and the Newark Penn and Harrison stations in New Jersey will resume Monday morning.

Officials say trains will start rolling out at 5 a.m. and will run in both directions until 10 p.m. But they also warn commuters that they may face extended waits for trains.

Besides Newark Penn and Harrison, the line also will include stops at Journal Square, Grove Street, and Newport stations in New Jersey and at the 14th, 23rd and 33rd Street stations in Manhattan.

Trains will bypass Christopher and 9th streets in New York. And disabled passengers will have access to the platforms only at Newark, Journal Square and 33rd Street.

PATH service remains suspended at the Hoboken, Exchange Place and the World Trade Center stations.

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Veterans honored with yellow ribbons at 9/11 memorial

On the eve of the Veterans Day parade, the 9/11 memorial at the World Trade Center staged a special gesture of honor: veterans tying yellow ribbons to a tree that survived the terror attack.

More than 100 ribbons were distributed at the Saturday morning ceremony. A wreath was laid near the tree, which thrives more than a decade after it emerged from the smoking rubble.

Standing for a moment of silence were veterans of wars from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as active service members and Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

They heard a violist playing "Amazing Grace" as ribbons were wrapped around the branches of the "survivor tree."

On Sunday, New York will honor veterans with a parade up Fifth Avenue.

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Ex-FDNY Madonna fan convicted in Manhattan of resisting arrest outside her UWS building

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Now he faces up to a year on Rikers Island -- which is not La Isla Bonita.

A Madonna-besotted former city firefighter was convicted today of resisting arrest after flailing his arms as he was busted painting love notes on giant wooden boards outside the star's Central Park West building.

"Madonna I need you," read one sign. "Tell me yes or no," read another. "If it's yes, my dream will come true. If it's no, I will go. XXX"

Robert Linhart, retired in '98 from Ladder 30 in Harlem, was just trying to express himself -- until he went over the borderline and failed to comply with police attempts to arrest him, jurors said they found.

"If she invites me," Linhart joked as he left court, when asked if he would attend the Material Girl's concerts Monday and Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.

Linhart had every right to paint his signs peaceably, but no right to resist arrest, said jurors, who only afterward learned that the kooky ex-smoke-eater's object of affection was Madonna.

"We thought that he was a little, you know, different," said juror Dr. Harry Pong, 51.

"But that doesn't matter -- he has the right to free speech," Pong added.

"I feel that his rights were violated," agreed juror Elisa Rosario, 50.

"I don't think he did anything wrong," in painting his signs and blasting loud music on the wide sidewalks of Central Park West, she said.

"He was a typical New Yorker," she said. "He was on the sidewalk painting. I give Mr. Linhart a lot of credit. He stepped up to the plate. He did not take their crap," she said of trial exhibit video of the arrest, showing a cuffed Linhart cursing out his arresting officers.

Still, prosecutors presented credible police testimony showing that once cops made the decision to arrest him on Sept. 21, 2010, he resisted by flailing his arms, the two jurors said.

Linhart was acquitted of a second charge of resisting arrest from Sept. 18, 2010 -- the arresting officers' testimony in that incident was inconsistent and not credible, the jurors said.

Defense lawyer Lawrence LaBrew said he would appeal the conviction, because Linhart had been denied the right to present a doctor's testimony showing that at the time of the second arrest, he was suffering from a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder.

The injury was caused by cops' rough treatment of Linhart during the first arrest, and was the reason Linhart couldn't move his arms and comply with police attempts to cuff him, LaBrew said.

Linhart, of Huletts Landing, NY, is such an ardent fan, he tweets under the name @madonna_stalker. "Funny, I just heard Madonna say that she supports freedom of speach," he tweeted in August. "I think that she should inform her security of her beliefs."

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