I stand corrected. It is three years for many federal crimes, but since the CFAA has no specific statute of limitations, you are correct that crimes prosecuted under it use the default number, which is 5 years. On a side note, if you are an international person visiting the US, you do not want to be arrested for a federal crime in Las Vegas...if you think you may be arrested, visit somewhere else. There is no automatic right to bail in the federal system, and the District Court in Las Vegas is notorious for ruling that most non-US defendants are flight risks. That means, at a minimum, you will go through a month-long transfer process (that goes through Oklahoma, regardless of your destination) to get to wherever your federal warrant was actually issued before you are likely to be granted bail.

This is good advice, but if you think you may be arrested, you should not visit at all.

Probably even better advice :) .

Or may be DEFCON should stop hosting their conference in the US. It used to be a game “Spot the Fed”, now the jokes on them “Spot the hacker” . Because DEFCON is a fishing ground for Feds.