Update: Sixth Pike's Pub suspect in custody. Now they're all booked.
- Jamie Duffy
- Jun 20
- 2 min read
ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---Whatever people do when they know they're being hunted down is a matter of conjecture. Some folks turn themselves in. Others wait, making that last hour count as they say goodbye to the dog, maybe kiss the favorite motorcycle farewell, and watch the news.
Vard Warnock, the sixth suspect in a May 30 bar beating at Pike's Pub in Waynedale, doesn't have long before the Allen County Sheriff's Department warrants officers are at his door.

The sheriff's department knows where Warnock is. That's because the department is getting tips on the regular as to his whereabouts, according to Lt. Adam Griffith, ACSD spokesman.
Warnock, of Fort Wayne, has been identified as one of the six men wearing apparel that indicated they were members of The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, an organization the Department of Justice has called criminal on its website. The six men were part of a video that showed them beating up a Black man in the bar around 11 p.m.

There are disputes on what caused the beating that sent James Simmons to the hospital. He was released but returned for more medical care, according to the probable cause affidavit written by Det. Cpl Keith Wallin.
Locals have been looking for Warnock's mugshot and Warnock, 58, since he caught a case in mycase, the state legal website that lists felonies, misdemeanors and even, infractions.
Warnock was charged Wednesday, June 18, and got the same charges the other men got: Level 5 felony battery with serious bodily injury and misdemeanor criminal recklessness.
But no warrant was attached to the case on my case and no mugshot appeared. Griffith said the warrant, that must be signed by a judge, wasn't processed quickly enough and came up against the Juneteenth holiday. Courts were closed Thursday, but are open today.
Early Friday morning, the warrants officers were poised to make an arrest.
If you swap out the information in the probable cause affidavit for the wrongly accused Kent Adamonis and replace the misidentified with Warnock, the new suspect was "the man with gray hair and a handlebar moustache, wearing 'Outlaw' attire' and 'seen on top of James throwing punches'." Court documents say Warnock was also kicking him while Simmons was held down.
The probable cause also says Adamonis was identified by a witness who was at the bar the night of the incident and and said she has known Adamonis, bar owner Kelley Ruse and Doug Zuber, "the money behind the bar," for years.
However charges were dropped against Adamonis. One of his relatives contacted The Probable Cause to say Adamonis had NEVER been a member of the Outlaws, but does enjoy meeting his friends at bars, including Pike's Pub, and golfing. The family has been quick to salvage his good name.
Those also charged in the beating are Zuber, Ryan Minick of Churubusco, and Justin Wert, Christopher Yoho and Jerrad Impton, all of Fort Wayne.
The Probable Cause will update this story as needed.
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