News Release

WARSAW — The Warsaw Police Department recently promoted several officers, with most of the promotions taking effect this week, after the Labor Day weekend.

Lt. Wayne D. Wilkie has served the City of Warsaw and the Warsaw Police Department for more than 20 years now. In that time, he has served on second shift as a shift supervisor and day shift as a supervisor.

He was most recently promoted to third shift as the lieutenant. Wilkie has also served the City of Warsaw and Warsaw Community Schools as a certified school resource officer. Over the past 20 years, he has been a certified instructor for defensive tactics, less-lethal munitions, chemical munitions, distraction devices and O.C. spray. He is still serving as the primary firearms instructor for pistol, rifle and shotgun.

Wilkie is a certified motor officer through Harley-Davidson and a certified police mountain bike operator. He served on the Warsaw dive team for approximately 15 years and is serving on the Warsaw Police Department’s Emergency Response Team (E.R.T) team as a team leader.

Prior to becoming a law enforcement officer for the City of Warsaw, Wilkie served his country as an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and also, overseas as a platoon sergeant with Marine Corps security force company in Rota, Spain. Wilkie still serves Indiana and the country when called upon by being in the Indiana Army National Guard where he is a 1SG assigned to Bravo Company, 2-151 Infantry Battalion.

Also promoted on third shift was Clayton N. Rieder, to the position of sergeant. Rieder was previously corporal on the afternoon shift.

He is one of the department’s field training officers and had been attached to the department’s dive team. Additionally, he serves as one of the department’s K-9 officers. Rieder was hired by Warsaw in 2016.

Prior to this, he served the town of North Webster in law enforcement from 2012 to 2016, and as a reserve deputy for the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office for a year prior to that. Rieder is a member of the Emergency Response Team for Warsaw.

The department has new faces in supervision on the afternoon shift. Now serving as a sergeant of second shift is Christopher R. Brown. Brown was hired by Warsaw in 2015. Prior to this, he was a reserve officer for Goshen Police, and before that, served the country in the United States Marine Corps from 2009 to 2013.

Before entering military service, he attended Southern Polytechnic State University. Brown is a primary firearms instructor and armorer and a field training officer and has specialized training in cellphone forensics. He also serves as the Emergency Response Team sniper. Before this assignment, he was a day shift patrol officer.

Joining him on second shift is Cpl. Zackery A. Smith who was hired by Warsaw in 2018. Prior to his hiring, Smith attended Grace College.

He too serves as a K-9 officer for Warsaw and is a field training officer. He had been assigned to midnight shift as a patrol/K-9 officer.

Jaime de la Fuente had served as a corporal for day shift. He was recently promoted to sergeant and moved to second shift. With the flow of promotions, he has cycled back to day shift in the sergeant position.

De la Fuente was originally with Warsaw from 2004 to 2009 before leaving to take a law enforcement position in the state of Texas. He returned to Warsaw in 2010.

De la Fuente holds an associate degree from Vincennes University. He is a field training officer and a member of the department’s Emergency Response Team.

A familiar face on day shift but now filling the position of corporal is Jordan E. Roberts. Roberts was hired in 2012 and served as a patrol officer until 2017 when he took a deputy sheriff position with the Wells County Sheriff’s Office. Jordan returned to Warsaw a year later.

On his second round, he received specialized training as a cellphone forensics analyst and recently became a field training officer. Prior to his law enforcement career, Roberts attended Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and received a Bachelor of Science. He also had the opportunity to intern with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives prior to beginning his law enforcement career.