DARDEN, J.
From the face of the informations, which were filed on June 30, 2009, the five-year statute of limitation would not bar the prosecution of any offense alleged to have occurred on or after June 30, 2004. However, the acts alleged to have occurred on or between September 2000 to June 29, 2004 fall outside the five-year period. Thus, the question before this Court is whether the State alleged facts in the charging informations sufficient to bring the charges for acts alleged to have occurred on or between September 2000 to June 29, 2004 within the statutory limitation period so that the charges should be allowed to proceed to trial. Stated another way, we need to determine whether the prosecution of the offense for acts alleged to have occurred from September 2000 to June 29, 2004 was barred because the charging informations did not allege facts sufficient to constitute the concealment of evidence exception contained in Indiana Code section 35-41-4-2(h)(2).
The tolling provision in Indiana Code section 35-41-4-2(h)(2) “serves the State’s interest of ensuring that it can later prosecute a criminal suspect even if, for a time, he conceals evidence of the offense such that authorities are unaware and unable to determine that a crime has been committed.” Kifer v. State, 740 N.E.2d 586, 588 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000). However, given the fact that concealment is a “fact-intensive issue[,]” when the State relies on this exception, it must plead the circumstances of the concealment exception in the information so that the “defendant is apprised of the facts upon which the State intends to rely and may be prepared to meet that proof at trial.” Willner, 602 N.E.2d at 509 (citing Jones v. State, 14 Ind. 120, 121 (1860) (“Unless the [S]tate, by her pleading, apprises the accused of the acts of concealment upon which [the State] intends to rely, he may not be prepared to resist the effort to deprive him of his right to set up the statute of limitations in bar of the prosecution.”)).
Here, the charging informations contain absolutely no allegation of the concealment of evidence exception. The State did not allege in the informations that Reeves concealed evidence of the offense, including no allegation of the dates the concealment occurred or any alleged positive act of concealment done by Reeves. Nor did the State allege that it lacked evidence sufficient to charge Reeves with the offense or that Reeves’ offense could not have been discovered by exercise of due diligence. “[A]n information should allege facts sufficient to show that the charge was filed within the limitations period[.]” Willner, 602 N.E.2d at 508. Because a portion of the ten charging informations, on their face, allege a time period outside the statute of limitations (i.e., September 2000 to June 29, 2004) and do not allege facts sufficient to constitute an exception to the statute, the trial court should have granted, in part, Reeves’ motion to dismiss as to these dates that fell outside the statute of limitation.
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. . . We note, however, that the probable cause affidavit does contain specific allegations regarding the concealment of evidence exception that would have put Reeves on notice that the State intends to rely on the concealment of evidence exception for the purpose of bringing all the alleged acts within the five-year statute of limitation. [Footnote omitted.] Therefore, under the specific facts of this case, we remand to the trial court for consideration, as set forth in Indiana Code section 35-34-1-4(d), of whether it will discharge the defendant as to the dates specified above or deny the discharge upon determining that the prosecutor would be entitled to cure the information by amendment.
BROWN, J., and BRADFORD, J., concur.