(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/1c5064560-121205-john-mcafee-kb-1029a.photoblog600.jpg)Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images fileU.S. anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee listens to questions from a journalist in front of the Supreme Court in Guatemala City on Dec. 4.By NBC News staff and wire servicesAnti-virus software guru John McAfee was detained by Guatemalan police on Wednesday for illegally entering the country, interior minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said.
McAfee's lawyer said he would be held until it could be determined if he entered the country legally, according to NBC News' Fabiola Lacayo.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) McAfee crossed into Guatemala to evade authorities in Belize who want to question him in connection with the murder of his neighbor. There is no international arrest warrant for McAfee.
McAfee smuggled himself and his girlfriend, who he calls Samantha, across the porous land border that Belize shares with Guatemala. He stayed at a hotel in a national park before heading for Guatemala City on Monday evening.
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