Comment by yodon

> Can you provide a statute number for this crime please? Any federal or even state statute will do

The google search required to find the answer ("federal statute for destruction of evidence") is shorter than your question here.

"Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry..."[0]

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519