The woman he is accused of assaulting didn’t report the incident until weeks later, on Jan. 28. The woman texted a friend, which caught Ward’s attention and sent him down a “constant loop of questioning and not making sense in a manic state,” according to the report. He then went to the kitchen and grabbed six knives from the magnetic strip they were mounted on and began to walk towards the woman, Rix wrote. During the drive, the person the woman had texted earlier in the night pulled up behind them, leading the woman to pull over. Ward was taken into custody at the State Police Middleboro Barracks on Jan. 28 and brought to the Plymouth Police station to be booked.