CODE OF VIRGINIA FALSE STATEMENT TO LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, ETC.; PENALTY (ยง 19.2-152.16) Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any materially false statement or representation to a law-enforcement officer or attorney for the Commonwealth who is in the course of conducting an investigation undertaken pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. HISTORY: 2020, cc. 887, 888.