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I have met John a handful of times, both when he lived in the US and after he moved to Belize. He is an interesting character.

I am also fairly certain that he is a psychopath (in the clinical sense). He takes pride in his lack of feelings for others. When his nephew was killed in Rodeo, MN flying one of John's airplanes, John was almost militant in his unwillingness to mourn him. He wraps this behavior in a cloak of "Zen", and for years he pursued Yoga/meditation/Zen training. John is anything but Zen though.

He professes to be opposed to drugs or alcohol in any form. He will go so far as to prohibit the people around him to drink; therefore it surprises me that he is being accused of drug use. When he moved to Belize, he setup a lab in his compound to study the "natural chemical properties of plants". After his researcher quit, John continued to operate the lab, and this raised many questions with the authorities as to what was going on. It did seem odd.

Regarding the dogs, they were a menace at the compound; and I am a dog lover. When you entered John's compound, you were issued a "buggy whip" to fend off the dogs. They were aggressive, a pack of junkyard dogs. I was bitten on one visit, and no telling how many others were. I would not want those animals anywhere near my kids.