Couple Charged In 2025 Home Invasion Burglary Go Before Ocean County Judge

POINT PLEASANT, NJ — A California couple has pleaded guilty in a bizarre 2025 home invasion in Point Pleasant that started with one man hiring the woman as a prostitute, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.

Jaheim Wilson, 24, and Oleyah J. Brown, 22, both of Stockton, California, pleaded guilty on Monday before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan to burglary in the Aug. 7, 2025, incident at a home on Barton Avenue, Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.

Wilson and Brown kicked in the door to the home shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 7 then took items belonging to the resident, the prosecutor's office said. Wilson also fired a handgun outside the home before the pair left, authorities said.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed in the case, the resident told police he was playing a video game when he heard the banging as the two tried to kick the door in. He closed a door separating the room he was in from the living room, which was connected to the kitchen, and called 911.

Hired by a friend

The couple had come to the house because a friend of the resident had hired Brown as a prostitute, the prosecutor's office said.

Shortly before the victim heard the banging from Brown and Wilson kicking the door, the friend ran into the house to tell him a guy was coming to the house with a gun, authorities said. The friend then ran out of the house.

Authorities learned the friend had asked permission to use the victim's home to meet with a female prostitute, later identified as Brown. The friend assumed Wilson was her pimp, according to the affidavit.

Authorities tried to track the friend down at the home he shares with his parents, but later discovered the friend had actually never left the house while Wilson and Brown were breaking in, according to the affidavit.

The friend "was ultimately found within the residence, sleeping in a closet in (the victim's) bedroom," the affidavit says. "Upon being removed from the closet, (name redacted) was extremely upset and worried, having difficulty providing clear information."

The friend went on to tell authorities, both in an interview at the home and in a follow-up interview the next day that he had ordered a prostitute via a website and was communicating with the woman by text message. He met up with Brown at the parking lot of the Idle Hour on Route 88, and when Brown arrived with Wilson driving her, he got into their vehicle to talk for a bit before taking them to his friend's house.

At the house, the friend and Brown went into the living room connected to the kitchen, next to the room where the victim was playing video games.

Just wanted company

The friend told authorities "multiple times that he requested the company of the female not for 'sex' but to just spend time with him," the affidavit said.

He paid $150 and gave Brown an ounce of marijuana that she took outside to Wilson. At that point, the friend told authorities, Brown was "beginning to get 'weird' ... typing on her phone constantly and he began to believe she was communicating with the male" who drove them to the house, the affidavit says.

The friend and the victim then locked the door between the living room and the room where the victim was playing video games, the friend told authorities.

The friend told police Brown said she wanted to leave, and he asked for his money back since they had not spent much time together. She agreed, he told authorities. He followed Brown out the back door as she left, and as they reached the fence between the back yard and the driveway, the friend said he heard Brown shout "get the gun." That's when the friend ran back inside and locked the door, according to the affidavit.

Hiding in the closet

"When asked why he had been hiding in the closet for so long instead of speaking with police ... (the friend) advised that he was frightened, did not expect the police to be there that long, and ultimately fell asleep in the closet," according to the affidavit.

Wilson and Brown never tried to go farther than the kitchen, according to the affidavit.

Authorities found Brown and Wilson by having an undercover officer contact her to arrange a meeting at the Clarion hotel in Toms River on Aug. 7. When Wilson and Brown arrived, Wilson got out and started walking to the hotel, then ran back to the car and tried to drive away. The two were identified as matching surveillance video from the Point Pleasant house and arrested, the affidavit said.

After they were arrested, Brown told authorities that she and Wilson, who is her boyfriend, had started driving cross-country in Wilson's Honda about a month earlier. She also told authorities she has been a sex worker since she was 17 and advertises on a multitude of websites, the affidavit said.

She said she and the man who hired her agreed on the fee of $150, and she told authorities that when they got to the house, he was unable to perform sexually and "became agitated when the agreed upon time limit of 15 minutes elapsed," the affidavit says.

Brown said that when she tried to leave, the man blocked the door so she tried to call Wilson, the affidavit said. Brown and the man went outside and she told authorities she said to Wilson, "Get him," as the friend ran back into the house.

She acknowledged herself and Wilson kicking in the door and said they took a bottle of Tito's Handmade Vodka before leaving the house. She denied knowing that Wilson had a gun, the affidavit said.

Seen with the handgun

According to the affidavit, Wilson was seen on surveillance video holding a firearm as they kicked in the door, and that the weapon appeared to have an extended magazine, which is illegal in New Jersey.

Video also shows Wilson going to the driver's door of a dark sedan that appeared to be a Honda, opening it and saying to an unidentified occupant "you good?" before firing the handgun. The video showed Wilson "reaching over the door of the vehicle and a loud 'bang' is heard and a flash is seen coming from the hand of the driver, indicating the firearm ... was fired," according to the affidavit. It was fired in the general direction of the house, the affidavit said.

Wilson and Brown both were charged with home invasion burglary on Aug. 8, and Wilson additionally was charged with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon, prosecutors said.

Wilson also pled guilty to unlawful possession of a weapon on Monday, the prosecutor's office said.

They are scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 28, and prosecutors will be seeking a term of seven years in prison for Wilson and for Brown. They also will be seeking a five-year sentence with 3-1/2 years of parole ineligibility for Wilson on the weapons charge, with that sentence to run concurrently, the prosecutor's office said.