N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-08-03: Hindering law enforcement

1.A person is guilty of hindering law enforcement if he intentionally interferes with, hinders, delays, or prevents the discovery, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another for an offense by:

a.Harboring or concealing the other;

b.Providing the other with a weapon, money, transportation, disguise, or other means of avoiding discovery or apprehension;

c.Concealing, altering, mutilating, or destroying a document or thing, regardless of its admissibility in evidence;

d.Warning the other of impending discovery or apprehension other than in connection with an effort to bring another into compliance with the law; or

e.Giving false information or a false report to a law enforcement officer knowing such information or report to be false.

2.Hindering law enforcement is a class C felony if the actor:

a.Knows of the conduct of the other and such conduct constitutes a class AA, class A, or class B felony; or

b.Knows that the other has been charged with or convicted of a crime and such crime is a class AA, class A, or class B felony. Otherwise hindering law enforcement is a class A misdemeanor.

3.A person who commits the crime of hindering law enforcement is subject to prosecution in this state if the conduct interferes with or hinders an investigation of a crime occurring within this state. The venue of a criminal action involving the crime of hindering law enforcement is in any county in which the conduct of hindering is committed or in any county in which a criminal offense is being investigated which is hindered by the false information or other interfering conduct.