For the purposes of the statute of limitations, what is the effect of the appellant's alleged lack of knowledge of the charges filed against him?

For the same reason, the appellant's alleged lack of knowledge of the charges filed against him is irrelevant to the issue at hand, since it was his flight, and not the existence of formal charges or the state of his subsequent knowledge about them, which stopped the running of the limitations period. See Henrique v. United States Marshal, 653 F.2d 1317, 1322 (CA9 1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 950 (1982). Because the applicable statute of limitations period was tolled from the time of the appellant's flight until his arrest in 1987, the superseding indictment was unaffected by what had occurred in the interim, i.e., the dismissal of the original indictment.