Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested again on battery charge in New Orleans
Actor Shia LaBeoufwho was arrested this month over an alleged assault outside a bar during Mardi Grasenters New Orleans Criminal CourtThursdayFeb. 262026. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Shia LaBeoufwho was arrested and charged with battery after police say he punched several people outside a New Orleans bar earlier this monthwas arrested again on Saturday and charged with one additional misdemeanor count of simple batterycourt records show.
LaBeouf’s attorney said in a statement that his arrest is connected to a Feb. 17 brawl outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar near the French Quarter for which LaBeouf had previously been arrested. In that caseLaBeouf is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people during Mardis Gras celebrations.
LaBeouf’s attorney Sarah Chervinsky said when they learned New Orleans police issued a new arrest warrant FridayLaBeouf voluntarily turned himself in to the Orleans Parish jail.
“No regular person would be required to post over $100,000 in bondsand be jailed two separate times for one misdemeanor incident,” Chervinsky said. “Just as he does not deserve preferential treatmentMr. LaBeouf also does not deserve to be treated more harshly by the police and courts just because he is a public figure.”
Telephone and email messages left Saturday with New Orleans police were not immediately returned.
In the Feb. 17 incidenta video shows a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face“causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” according to a New Orleans police report.
Jeffrey Damnita well-known local entertainer who police identified as Jeffrey Klein in the incident reportsaid he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf.
“He hit mehe connected a few times with puncheshe pushed me a few times,” Damnit told The Associated Press.
LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others that he would beat them upDamnit said. He added that LaBeouf had pushed him from behind at the bar earlier in the nightshouting homophobic slurs and threatening his life.
Damnit and others subdued LaBeouf and tried to get him to leave the areabut he would not leave and became more aggressiveaccording to Damnit and the police report.
Police arrived at the bar around 12:45 a.m. on the morning of the city’s famous Fat Tuesday revelry and arrested LaBeouf.
LaBeouf has not entered a plea and declined to talk to reporters on Thursday after a New Orleans judge ordered him to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation. During that hearingChervinsky told the judge: “Franklybeing drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime.”