Explain like I’m five and foreign, what is the importance of crossing state lines in convictions that they mention it? For example,
22-year-old Matthias Jacob Edward Mann was arrested by the FBI at his family’s home in Hartselle, Alabama Thursday morning. His charges include attempted kidnapping and attempting to entice someone to cross state lines to commit a sexual crime.
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For many crimes, each state is like its own little bubble of laws and law enforcement. If you live in Dallas and commit a crime in Dallas then you’re “only” breaking state laws. There are some exceptions to this, for instance, if you vandalize or steal from federally protected properties (banks, FBI offices, stuff like that) then you’d face federal criminal charges.
Once you start crossing state lines, you run the risk of violating *federal* laws — laws that are set by the federal government (the highest level of government in the country). It all depends on what the nature of the crime is.
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