18 U.S.C. § 1073 : US Code - Section 1073: Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1073 : US Code - Section 1073: Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony

Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with
intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement
after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees,
for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death
or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the
fugitive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal
proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense
punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such
place, is charged, or (3) to avoid service of, or contempt
proceedings for alleged disobedience of, lawful process requiring
attendance and the giving of testimony or the production of
documentary evidence before an agency of a State empowered by the
law of such State to conduct investigations of alleged criminal
activities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than five years, or both. For the purposes of clause (3) of this
paragraph, the term "State" includes a State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or
possession of the United States.
Violations of this section may be prosecuted only in the Federal
judicial district in which the original crime was alleged to have
been committed, or in which the person was held in custody or
confinement, or in which an avoidance of service of process or a
contempt referred to in clause (3) of the first paragraph of this
section is alleged to have been committed, and only upon formal
approval in writing by the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney
General, the Associate Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney
General of the United States, which function of approving
prosecutions may not be delegated.