If charged (not convicted) am I able to travel outside the country for my honeymoon?

[seuneu88]

Area of law: Criminal law
Country: United States of America
State: Arizona

I am trying to determine if I will be allowed to travel internationally for my upcoming honeymoon as I am currently being investigated for insurance fraud. (please see below for case background) I have NOT been charged with any crime, but I am told that the case has been submitted to the DA who has said he is reviewing the case and will make a decision to charge or not in the next few weeks.

My question is if I am charged will there be any restrictions on traveling, as we are currently making plans to travel abroad for our honeymoon in November and do not want to get into a situation where I book a honeymoon and find out I am restricted from leaving based on just being charged even though the case will not have been tried yet by that time.

Case background:

I purchased a wedding ring (aprox. $7000)from an online retailer several months ago, after believing I did not receive the product I contacted my credit card company and issued a chargeback and received credit from my credit card company for the amount.

Later on due to a mix up and oversight realized that the ring had been received and contacted credit card company and advised them of this to be rebilled for the charge.

He oversight occurred when I placed preliminary orders with two separate companies to produce a ring, for a last minute occasion in hopes that one would advise they would be able to create it and ship it in time. The confusion occurred when I received one ring, but got billed on my Amex under a different retailers name (that I was not familiar with) and thought it was billed by the company that never shipped a ring to me. So after no response from the retailer, I called Amex to investigate, they found the dispute in my favor and gave me a conditional credit on my account. When I did realize what had occurred I contacted Amex back to remove the credit. However Amex never fullfilled that request in a timely fashion, and only realized they had not, once the investigators showed up and advised of this.

My first phone call was to Amex to have it rectified and it has been confirmed in writing and documents showing that the credit was removed and the retailer was compensated. The investigators have been advised of this and received copies of the official documents from Amex, but it does not seem to make a difference to them.

Over a month later, insurance fraud investigators show up and confinscate the ring, stating that the retailer filed an Insurance claim when I originally stated I had not received it. I advised the investigators that I had contacted my credit card company and advised them of the mistake and requested to have it rebilled. Found out later that the credit card company never full filled that request of rebilling my card. They investigators took the ring into their possession. I imediately contacted credit card company and had them correct their mistake and the charge was re-billed to me for the full amount. I have received confirmation that the retailer has been fully compensated and fully paid as previously requested.

Once you are charged the judge can reqquire you to stay in-state if he wishes. But unless you are ordered to do so, you can do as you wish.