A final pre-trial scheduled in a New Boston man’s 2020 meth case. The Oct. 16 date was set Tuesday in Mercer County Circuit Court for 55-year-old Lester Ward.
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.
Ward was arrested again in September of 2022 on a Muscatine County warrant after Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a motorist assist north of Swedtown Road near New Boston. In May of 2022, he was arrested for DUI and resisting a peace officer in Mercer County. An Oct. 16 final pre-trial is also set in that case.
