A Maryland man was sentenced to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced on May 21. Chief United States District Judge Renée Marie Bumb imposed the sentence in Camden federal court.
The case concerns Chouby Charleron, age 27, of Severn, Maryland. Charleron pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Bumb on November 19, 2025, admitting that he conspired to traffic personal identifying information (PII) from at least February 2020 until his arrest on January 22, 2024. According to court documents and statements made in court, Charleron accessed and obtained the PII of thousands of individuals and sold it through interstate wires using an encrypted messaging application accessible via cellphone.
Charleron acted as administrator of a chat group advertising the sale of PII and sold Social Security numbers belonging to more than 5,000 victims. He did so with knowledge that co-conspirators would use this information for fraudulent purposes or attempts against the victims whose data had been stolen.
In addition to the prison term, Chief Judge Bumb ordered Charleron to pay $102,288.18 in restitution and serve two years of supervised release following his imprisonment. U.S. Attorney Frazer credited special agents from Homeland Security Investigations under Special Agent in Charge Michael S. McCarthy for their work on the investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dak Cohen and Alison Thompson represented the government in Camden and Newark respectively during this case.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey is part of the Department of Justice and staffs about 170 attorneys and support personnel across offices in Newark, Trenton, and Camden; it prosecutes federal crimes statewide while also representing civil matters involving the United States according to its official website.
