By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

COLUMBIANA – A 34-year-old Alabaster man who was arrested in 2017 and charged with allegedly distributing methamphetamine in Alabaster and Pelham is back in jail after he received new drug charges while he was out on bond.

The Alabaster Police Department arrested Jonathan Lawrence Leonard, who lists an address on Wooten Road in Alabaster, on Jan. 22 and charged him with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. The charges came after Leonard allegedly was found in possession of about 0.3 grams of methamphetamine and a marijuana pipe in the 11000 block of Alabama 25 in Calera on Jan. 21.

When he was arrested on the drug possession and paraphernalia charges, Leonard was out on bond on a trio of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance charges brought against him by the Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force in 2017.

The drug distribution charges came after Leonard allegedly distributed methamphetamine on Shelby County 52 in Pelham on Sept. 7, 2017, on Pelham Parkway on Sept. 22, 2017, and on South Colonial Drive in Alabaster on Aug. 28, 2017.

He posted bonds totaling $30,000 on Jan. 16, 2018, and was out on those bonds when he was rearrested on Jan. 22.

Because he was on bond when he received the new charges, his bond was revoked, and he is now being held in the Shelby County Jail without bond.