Wild Greg's bouncer arrested again in second alleged bar battery

One of the Wild Greg's Saloon bouncers charged earlier this month in an alleged battery and pepper spraying incident at the downtown Pensacola bar has been charged in another violent attack at the bar.

The most recent arrest report claims that in February, Kory James Moegenburg, 26, assaulted a victim inside Wild Greg's so badly that the victim was coughing up blood, and then he allegedly took another victim into an elevator to attack him.

Moegenburg was arrested Monday morning in connection to the alleged attack.

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The Pensacola Police Department report claims the two victims were sitting at a table drinking with friends Feb. 11 when one of the victims went to the bathroom.

When he didn't come back out for a long time, the second victim went in to find him on the floor, passed out. He said he went back to get their friends to tell them to leave, at which point he saw the bouncers dragging his friend out of the bathroom while he was coughing up blood.

The bouncers allegedly told the second victim to take his friend and pretend like nothing had happened, but the man argued.

He said once he started arguing, Moegenburg put him in a headlock and took him to an elevator, making sure nobody else came inside. He told police Moegenburg and another unknown bouncer assaulted him, causing lacerations and a busted lip before forcibly throwing him out of the business when the elevator doors opened again.

The initial victim who was coughing up blood said he remembers seeing the unknown bouncer striking a beer bottle over his friend's head as the elevator closed, according to Moegenburg's arrest report.

Moegenburg and a manager at Wild Greg's, Kurt Just, were charged earlier this month in an incident where a group of men were denied entry to the bar and were then allegedly pepper sprayed, and one of them was kicked in the face.

Moegenburg's most recent arrest report claims that on May 9, five days after Moegenburg and Just's arrest in the pepper spray incident, Just dropped off a DVR system to a business called Panhandle Alarm.

That system allegedly has surveillance footage of the February incident involving Moegenburg, despite Wild Greg's employees telling PPD investigators on the night of the alleged attack that surveillance footage from the incident didn't exist.

The State Attorney's Office is still investigating Wild Greg's in another surveillance footage-related issue after a bar representative said in November that footage of a July 2017 incident where a patron suffered facial fractures had been lost or stolen.

A customer had come into the bar as a designated driver and left that night, on July 14, with facial fractures after an alleged battery, according to the state and PPD.

Prosecutor John Molchan said at a court hearing about the case in November that he would likely seek contempt of court charges against the business if it couldn't find footage of the incident determining what happened to the victim. At the time, there was not yet a criminal case because a defendant had not been identified.

The state had issued a subpoena for the surveillance footage and a Wild Greg's representative said they did have a copy of the footage on a thumb drive but it had been lost or stolen before it could be handed over to authorities.

As of Tuesday, a representative from the State Attorney's Office said that potential contempt charge, and battery case, are still under investigation so the agency can't comment on the situation.

Following the alleged pepper spraying incident, Moegenburg and Just were both booked into the Escambia County Jail on May 4 and released the same day, Moegenburg on a $500 bond and Just on a $1,500 bond.

Moegenburg was booked into jail early Monday morning for the February incident and faces new charges of one count each of battery and kidnapping-false imprisonment.

He remains in custody without bond.

Emma Kennedy can be reached at ekennedy@pnj.com or 850-435-8680.