A New Boston man awaiting trial in a 2020 meth case has been arrested again. This time Lester Ward was taken into custody on a Muscatine County warrant after Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a motorist assist north of Swedtown Road near New Boston on Thursday. In May, the 55-year-old Ward was arrested for DUI and resisting a peace officer.
The Class X felony meth count was filed against Ward in January of 2020 after Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies, Quad Cities MEG agents, and Illinois State Police executed a search warrant at his residence. Bond was set at $400,000 in that case, but he posted ten percent and was released in the summer of 2020. A status hearing is set in that case next Tuesday.
