It seemed as though Mr. McAfee's saga had reached a happy ending earlier this week, when he arrived in Guatemala and expressed his intention to marry Sam Vanegas, the 20-year-old Belizean woman who has been his traveling companion throughout his recent travails. But in what was perhaps an inevitable twist to a very strange tale, Mr. McAfee was arrested and taken to jail.

Vice, which has had two journalists traveling with Mr. McAfee in recent days, posted video of the arrest in which an unconcerned Mr. McAfee appears to play a recorder with street musicians moments before piling into a police van.

It's not all bad news: Mr. McAfee's lawyer, Telésforo Guerra, who happens to be the uncle of his fiancee, was able to wrangle a stay preventing Guatemalan immigration officials from returning Mr. McAfee to the Belize border until a higher court can review the case.

Meanwhile, Mr. McAfee seems to be getting the type of treatment generally reserved for celebrity fugitives. "I am using the computer of one of the wardens, or whatever title is used here," he wrote in a blog post titled "Can't Sleep."

He is a sweet man and a gentleman.  The world is heavilly populated with gentle people.  He makes me coffee and tells tender stories about his life.  He is a good companion.  I believe I could spend weeks in the desert with him as a sole companion without once becoming irritated.

It's not exactly the type of treatment he expects if he’s returned to Belize.

Get an eyeful, suckers. (Robert King/Vice)

The sordid tale of John McAffe's flight from the Belizean police has had a little bit of everything. Poisoned dogs, automatic weapons, disgusting disguises, bath salts—to say nothing of the fake North Korean passport, benighted rants on political corruption Central America-style, even a lesson on the importance of wiping GPS data from your iPhone pics when on the lam. One thing it's lacked: True Love.

Oh sure, Mr. McAfee has blogged on Belize's bar-girl culture, and offered a seemingly honest accounting of his own relationships with young, impoverished women. ("Many have commented that these women were only with me because of my money – a fact that I have to agree with," he blogged on November 19 title "Love and Deception.")

Well, there's nothing like a few weeks on the run to let romance blossom.

According to Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, one of the journalists who accidentally outed Mr. McAfee's location when an underling neglected to wipe EXIF data off a photo of Mr. McAfee yesterday, the anti-virus pioneer is getting ready to marry Sam Vanegas, his 20-year-old girlfriend and traveling companion.

Per Mr. Castoro, Mr. McAfee had just finished a "delicious breakfast of crepes and fresh fruit juice," when he hired hired a "powerful Guatemalan lawyer" named Telésforo Guerra, who happens to be Ms. Vanegas's uncle, and made the following profession:

I have known Samantha for a year and a half. She is a remarkable young woman. I love her very much and we are getting married. Unfortunately you will have a potential criminal in the family. My apologies for that, and I will do the best I can to make it up to you.

Awwww? Though we can't help but note when it comes to sweeping a 20-year-old woman off her feet and across international boundaries, it's a slippery slope between true love and human trafficking.