I didn't see this already posted but if it is just delete this!
Way to go Lenny!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-080725peterson-friend,0,6198349.storyCops: Drew Peterson, ex-friend scuffle outside barbershop
Former pal charged with misdemeanor battery
By Matthew Walberg | Chicago Tribune reporter
5:09 PM CDT, July 25, 2008
A Bolingbrook man who reportedly worked with police to secretly record Drew Peterson was charged with misdemeanor battery after he pushed Peterson outside a Bolingbrook barbershop Friday, police said.
"Best $100 I ever spent," said Len Wawczak as he left the Bolingbrook Police Department after posting the money as bail. "If I knew I was going to get arrested, I would have whipped his [butt]."
Police said that Wawczak and Peterson scuffled during a quarrel outside Hyroglyphics Barber Shop on Friday afternoon. Wawczak was charged with simple battery and was released at around 4:30 p.m.
Wawczak -- who claimed this week to have secretly recorded Peterson for Illinois State Police in their investigation of the 2004 death of Peterson's third wife and October disappearance of his current wife -- said his son, Len Jr., 20, called him from a hair salon located next door to Hyroglyphics.
Wawczak said his son told him Peterson was staring at him and intimidating him, and at that point the senior Wawczak drove from his home to confront Peterson.
He waited for him in the parking lot until Peterson came outside, and then pushed the former Bolingbrook police sergeant in the back and the two exchanged words.
Wawczak said that while he was upset to hear reports that Peterson had been saying he slept with Wawczak's wife, Paula Stark, that was not the reason for the confrontation.
"You don't mess with my kid," he said. "I'm a parent who's going to stand my ground."
Hyroglyphics owner Ernest Brown described the kerfuffle as underwhelming.
"It looked like 'Cheaters,' " said Brown, referring to the television show in which people confront their unfaithful lovers. "If you were looking for a way to describe it, that's the best way to put it."
Brown said Drew Peterson had come in for a haircut, but the barbershop was too busy, so he was referred to another shop.
When Peterson walked to the parking lot, Wawczak confronted him, Brown said. But no punches were thrown, Brown said. "It was just basically a scuffle in the parking lot," Brown said.
Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky said he did not know why the incident started and did not know whether his client claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Stark.
"I don't know, I don't want to know, I don't need to know," Brodsky said. "All I know is that my client is at home, and the state's confidential informant is charged with misdemeanor battery."
mwalberg@tribune.com