Jason Robert Halfacre

WARSAW — A man involved in a bar fight in September 2009 has been arrested on three counts of battery by means of a deadly weapon, class C felonies, and theft, a class D felony.

Jason Robert Halfacre, 41, homeless, Warsaw, was arrested Sunday afternoon, April 24. His last known address by the courts was 1217 E. Center St., Warsaw.

On Sept. 23, 2009, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Hepler was called to the Etna Green Pub where a fight had occurred 30 minutes earlier.

Hepler talked to Gary Moody, who was sitting at one end of the bar with Jimmy Goble, Jason Davis and Brent Rutherford. Two other individuals, later identified as Greg Eads and Halfacre, were at the other end. Halfacre walked up behind him and struck him in the head with a beer bottle. Davis stated Halfacre then struck him in the right side of the face with a beer bottle and Rutherford stated he was also attacked.

Eads said the one of the four individuals had made a comment about a member of Eads family, which Halfacre did not like and started hitting the guys in the back of hte head with a beer bottle.

The victims reported they kept telling the bar tender to contact police during and after the fight but would not, until 30 minutes had passed.

A surveillance video provided police a clear picture of what happened. The video shows Moody, Goble, Davis and Rutherford at one end of the bar with Halfacre getting up unprovoked and walking behind Goble, hitting him on the head with a beer bottle. Davis is then struck, by Halfacre, in the head, breaking the bottle. Halfacre then punches Moody in the back of the head at least two times. Moody is shown staggering out of the bar, appearing dazed. Halfacre then attacks Rutherford.

Eads is shown throwing Goble to the floor and punching Rutherford, while Halfacre and Rutherford are wrestling. The video also shows Goble and Halfacre hitting each other with chairs, before both drop the chairs and Eads punches Goble.

Further viewing of the surveillance video, police observe Goble getting behind the bar, beside the bartender and Eads walking over to Davis, taking a pool cue away from him. Eads then walks over to Halfacre where he takes the pool cue from Eads. Halfacre is shown hitting Goble in the head with the pool cue with the bartender standing there watching. Halfacre can also be seen stealing a cellular phone from Moody.

Davis suffered a cut and swelling to the eye, Goble suffered an abrasion, swelling to the forehead and cut to the left ear. Rutheford suffered an abrasion and swelling to the eye and Moody suffered a large cut to the back of his head.

Halfacre is being held on $15,000 surety bond.