Wild Greg's owner and manager arrested for allegedly concealing video of bouncer assault

Both the owner and the manager of Wild Greg's Saloon have been arrested on suspicion of concealing video surveillance footage from an incident at the downtown Pensacola club earlier this year when a patron was allegedly assaulted by a bouncer.

Gregory Urban, 31, was booked into the Escambia County Jail just after midnight Friday and has been charged with resisting an officer without violence. A manager at the club, Kurt Just, 54, was also arrested and booked into jail Friday morning. Both men are being held without bond.

The two men's arrests mark the fifth time in the last month that Wild Greg's staff have been booked into jail in connection to a string of alleged assaults at the club and accusations over concealing surveillance video.

On May 4, Just and bouncer Kory James Moegenburg, 26, were charged with battery for an incident in which a group of men who were denied entry to the bar were allegedly chased down the street and pepper sprayed. One of the victims was hospitalized and said Moegenburg kicked him in the face.

Earlier this week, Moegenburg was again booked into the Escambia County Jail for battery, and one count of kidnapping-false imprisonment, for allegedly taking a patron into an elevator and assaulting him on Feb. 11. The victim told police he began arguing with the bouncers because his friend had gone to the bathroom and ended up on the floor coughing up blood, and being dragged out of the bathroom.

The latest arrests, of Urban and Just Friday morning, were made after police say they did not turn over surveillance footage from Moegenburg's alleged battery in February.

Urban and Just reportedly told police there was no video of the incident, and police claim the surveillance footage exists.

Just allegedly told the officers at the time there was no video because Pensacola Police Department officers had taken their surveillance system in January in a warrant-related seizure.

Just's arrest report, however, says he returned two loaner DVR systems back to a business called Panhandle Alarm on May 4, hours after Just was released from the Escambia County Jail on the battery charge. The security business' management said the system had been installed at Wild Greg's four days after the PPD video system seizure, the report states.

An anonymous tip was sent to the PPD that Just had returned the DVRs and PPD obtained a search warrant to obtain the video.

The video showed Just going into the office where all the DVR systems are kept an hour after the alleged battery. Seconds later, police say, all the surveillance footage screens turn blue, which police believe means they were either powered off or unplugged. There are no additional video recordings after that date, the report states.

A third, separate incident at Wild Greg's from last year is still under investigation. In that case, a patron who went into the club as a designated driver allegedly ended up in the street with facial fractures one night in July.

As part of their investigation into what happened to that man, the State Attorney’s Office subpoenaed surveillance video from the club.

In a tense court hearing in November, an attorney for the club, John Asmar, said they had the video, but had lost it somehow and were trying to find it.

Prosecutor John Molchan said at the time he may initiate contempt of court proceedings if the video was not returned, as it likely contains evidence about what happened to the victim.

Molchan said Friday morning that Asmar assured him this week that the video has been located and should be in the state’s possession by the end of the week. Asmar did not return a request for comment Friday.

Molchan said he will review the footage and send it to PPD.

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