(a) A person commits the crime of tampering with physical evidence if the person
- (1) destroys, mutilates, alters, suppresses, conceals, or removes physical evidence with intent to impair its verity or availability in an official proceeding or a criminal investigation;
- (2) makes, presents, or uses physical evidence, knowing it to be false, with intent to mislead a juror who is engaged in an official proceeding or a public servant who is engaged in an official proceeding or a criminal investigation;
- (3) prevents the production of physical evidence in an official proceeding or a criminal investigation by the use of force, threat, or deception against anyone; or
- (4) does any act described by (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection with intent to prevent the institution of an official proceeding.
- (b) Tampering with physical evidence is a class C felony.