False reports, penalty.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 43.405
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43.405. False reports, penalty. — A person who knowingly makes a false report of a missing person, or knowingly makes a false statement in any such report, to a law enforcement agency is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. (L. 1988 H.B. 1272, et al.)
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