Shannan Gilbert was in Manhattan on the night of Friday, April 30, 2010.
Joseph Brewer was 2 hours away in Oak Beach.
To drive from midtown manhattan to Oak Beach is 2 hours. To drive back from Oak Beach to Manhattan is 2 hours. 4 hours total travel time.
Plus Pak's cut.
IF they're working independently - which only Pak claims.
Shannan Gilbert got a call at 11pm on a Friday night from a man she'd never met before asking her to invest 4 hours of travel time into an outcall?
Joseph Brewer is lonely on a Friday night and instead of choosing from the 100s of outcall ads listed on multiple online platforms all within a 30 minute radius from him, he decides on Shannan, a girl he'd never met who is 2 hours away from him in Manhattan?
It simply does not make sense.
Shannan and Pak had been to Suffolk County before.
They had been to Oak Beach before.
This was not Brewer's first interaction with Shannan or Pak.
But Shannan was not there just to deliver sex.
Shannan and Pak were still working for Joseph Ruis.
Shannan Gilbert had been arrested in 2007/2008 in NJ while working as an escort for one of Ruis' services.
Michael Pak also worked for this man.
Alex Diaz also worked for this man.
Ruis was not running a simple escort service.
Hudson County PO investigated him for a year, starting in 2008, before obtaining a warrant to raid his multiple businesses and homes.
On June 30, 2009, the HCPO arrested and charged Joseph Ruis with first-degree money laundering,
N.J.S.A. 2C:21-25;
third-degree promoting prostitution,
N.J.S.A. 2C:34-1b(2);
third-degree conspiracy to promote prostitution and distribute cocaine,
N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2,
N.J.S.A. 2C:34-1b(2),
N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5a(1), and
N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5b(1);
and first-degree leading a narcotics trafficking network,
N.J.S.A. 2C:35-3.
Shannan Gilbert was his co-defendent.
2007/2008
Gilbert arrested while working for Ruis.
2008
Hudson County Prosecutors Office begins investigation into Ruis.
2009
Ruis is arrested and makes cash bail.
2010
April: Trial is set for June, Ruis arraigned. Free till trial.
May: Shannan, listed as co-defendant, goes to OB and is never found alive.
June: Ruis pleads down and is out in 2 years.
Go back to 2007/2008 when Shannan was arrested in the prostitution sting working for Joseph Ruis in NJ.
It's at that time that Hudson County PO is beginning a large investigation into Ruis.
Shannan is listed as his codefendent.
Read the charges again.
Ruis was not running a simple escort service.
He was running 3 prostitution rings, limo services and other shell businesses.
Escorts and drivers - these are his employees.
Sex and cocaine - these are his goods and services.
Shannan Gilbert: employed as an escort by Ruis.
Pak and Diaz: employed as drivers by Ruis.
This is literally how the three met.
The third official charge against Ruis as stated by HCPO is conspiracy to promote prostitution and distribute cocaine. This charge is separate from his second charge of promoting prostitution.
The last official charge as stated by HCPO is leading a narcotics trafficking network in the first degree.
Shannan was directly involved in this case. She disappeared one month before it was scheduled.
If Shannan Gilbert was working with NJ in order to get out of the mess she was in on the case against Ruis, NJ would have her working whatever Ruis' business set up.
If that business (which was prostitution and cocaine, package deal) happened to lead to Suffolk County, to people in Suffolk County involved in law and politics, and on that particular night, to Oak Beach, then NJ is in a bad spot. Their intention was not to open a can of worms on Suffolk County. They wanted Ruis.
But Ruis led to Suffolk. And Shannan was HCPO's CI.
I used to think it was Ruis who, out on cash bail at the time, set Shannan up when she went out to OB that night.
But I think she was supplying for multiple places in Suffolk County, and Oak Beach was not a weird job - she was familiar with it.
Shannan wouldnt have had just a target on her back from just Ruis.
She would have had a target on her back from literally anyone who
she'd done business with while working for Ruis.
Anyone who had something to lose when the information came out during the trial.
Like who?
Pick any POI in OB who had any connection to someone in power in SC.
Pick any of the names that have come up in Suffolk County as participating in ethically questionable recreations. Law enforcement, judges, politicians.
If Shannan was scheduled to testify the next month at Ruis' trial and that testimony implicated Ruis OR any of Ruis' clients in Oak Beach or greater Suffolk County, and it was leaked that she was working w the prosecution, she's a walking target.
Idk if Pak or Shannan arranged the trip.
It could've been arranged through Ruis' agency.
But it wasnt the first time Shannan or Pak heard the words Oak Beack and Brewer was not some random john.
She went there like she had many times before for Ruis - to drop off cocaine, possibly provide sex.
This time, a month away from a trial that could implicate ALOT of people, someone was there to keep her from getting to the Ruis trial.
And the next month, there was no trial. Ruis lawyer's made a deal, no details of the investigation came out, and that was that.
Maybe that's why this 911 call is taking so long.
If Shannan was working for New Jersy's case against Ruis and uncovered a big problem in Suffolk County...generally speaking, LE is going to try to avoid involving an entire different county's LE in a case.
Maybe Shannan was trying to explain to a dispatcher that she was working for the NJ Prosecutors Office on a job in Oak Beach in which she was booked to deliver cocaine and sexual services as part of an immunity deal in a case against a guy in NJ for which she is listed as a co-defendant that is scheduled for a month from now and she got made and they're trying to kill me.
Maybe.
