Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 3185: Fugitives from country under control of United States into the United States

Felony

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This statute lists serious crimes—including murder, robbery, burglary, arson, forgery, and perjury—for which fugitives from foreign countries may be extradited into the United States.

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Murder and assault with intent to commit murder; Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money; Counterfeiting certificates or coupons of public indebtedness, bank notes, or other instruments of public credit, and the utterance or circulation of the same; Forgery or altering and uttering what is forged or altered; Embezzlement or criminal malversation of the public funds, committed by public officers, employees, or depositaries; Larceny or embezzlement of an amount not less than $100 in value; Robbery; Burglary, defined to be the breaking and entering by nighttime into the house of another person with intent to commit a felony therein; Breaking and entering the house or building of another, whether in the day or nighttime, with the intent to commit a felony therein; Entering, or breaking and entering the offices of the Government and public authorities, or the offices of banks, banking houses, savings banks, trust companies, insurance or other companies, with the intent to commit a felony therein; Perjury or the subornation of perjury; A felony under chapter 109A of this title; Arson; Piracy by the law of nations; Murder, assault with intent to kill, and manslaughter, committed on the high seas, on board a ship owned by or in control of citizens or residents of such foreign country or territory and not under the flag of the United States, or of some other government; Malicious destruction of or attempt to destroy railways, trams, vessels, bridges, dwellings, public edifices, or other buildings, when the act endangers human life.

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