Maryland Man Sentenced to 36 Months for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud

<p>CAMDEN, N.J. – A Maryland man was sentenced to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty for his role in a conspiracy to traffic personal identifying information (PII), U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced.&nbsp;Chief United States District Judge Renée M. Bumb imposed the sentence on April 23, in Camden federal court.</p><p>Chouby Charleron, 27, of Severn, Maryland, pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Bumb on November 19, 2025, to a single count Information that charged him with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud.</p><p>According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:</p><p>From at least February 2020 through his arrest on January 22, 2024, Charleron accessed and obtained the PII of thousands of unwitting individuals and then sold that PII to a network of co-conspirators through interstate wires using a web-based encrypted messaging application that users could access on their cellphones. Charleron was the administrator of a chat group that advertised the sale of PII to prospective co-conspirators. Charleron sold the PII, including Social Security numbers, of more than 5,000 victims to multiple co-conspirators. Charleron sold the PII with the knowledge that his co-conspirators would use the PII to, among other things, defraud or attempt to default the victims whose PII had been stolen.</p><p>In addition to the prison term, Chief Judge&nbsp;Bumb&nbsp;also ordered $102,288.18 in restitution and a term of supervised release of 2 years.</p><p>U.S. Attorney Frazer credited special agents of Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge&nbsp;Michael S. McCarthy with the investigation.</p><p>The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dak Cohen and Alison Thompson of the Criminal Division in Camden and Newark respectively.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ###</p><p>Defense counsel: Gary Mizzone, Esq.</p>