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McAfee Security Chief Gets Bail
posted (November 30, 2012)
His boss is in hiding, but tonight John McAfee's chief of security William Mulligan is free on bail. As we've reported, on November 14th, Mulligan was charged for multiple counts of kept firearm and ammunition without a license - for which remand is automatic. The firearms were part of an arsenal police found at McAfee's home on northern Ambergris Caye as they investigated the murder of American Gregory Faull. On Sunday 11th November, police found a 12 gauge Remington pump action shot gun loaded with seven cartridges and one Baikal brand 12 gauge single action shot gun. William Mulligan was at the home and charged for kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license for which remand is automatic.

Today, Mulligan's attorney, Ellis Arnold took his bail petition to the Supreme Court before Justice Herbert Lord. Crown Counsel Christophe Rodriguez, who represented the DPP's office objected on the sole ground that while in custody Mulligan told investigators that he was a British National. Rodriguez told the court that if that information was accurate, it meant that Mulligan was a flight risk, which was prosecution's main ground for objecting to bail.

Ellis Arnold produced an authentic copy of Mulligan's immigration document, which verified that he has dual British and Belizean Nationalities, therefore proving that his Belizean ties indicates that he isn't a flight risk.

As a result, the crown withdrew their objection, and Justice Lord granted Mulligan bail of $10,000. The conditions of the bail are that his sureties must be Belizean, he must surrender all of his travel documents, and he must report to all adjournments of his case at court.

So he's out on bail, and John McAfee is still being sought by police. In his comic relief blog McAfee is urging his readers to blitz the Government and the BTB will mail requests to free his associates Eddie Ancona and Cassian Chavarria. Both men had guns licensed in their names which were found in the McAfee arsenal. They were charged for one count each of lending a firearm without a written permission from the Commissioner of Police.

Investigators believe that they weren't lending at all - that they got the licenses on behalf of the McAfee Estate. They reportedly got the guns licensed in the Punta Gorda jurisdiction - quite a distance from San Pedro where they reside.

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