Paid agitator Leroy Truth indicted for assaulting a police officer

An Essex County grand jury has indicted Leonard Filipowski, aka Leroy Truth, a paid political agitator, with assaulting a police officer.

Filipowski was arrested in November after allegedly assaulting a Union City police officer.  He spent one night in jail before being released.

The indictment said that Truth “knowingly caused bodily injury to Lt. (Glen) Gaston, a law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties.”  The indictment is a third-degree crime.

Truth’s alleged ties to North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco led to the harassment of Union City Mayor/State Sen. Brian P. Stack and his family over the last year.  Those incidents led to a vicious political feud in Hudson County, a fight that Stack has won.

Last October, a municipal court judge in Trenton dismissed disorderly persons offenses against Truth following his removal from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this year.

The courts have not set a date for the arraignment.