Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested for 2nd time this month on battery charge in New Orleans

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 count of simple batterycourt records show.

It wasn't immediately clear if the new charge is connected to the Feb. 17 brawl outside the Royal Street Inn & R Barwhere LaBeouf is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people during Mardi Gras celebrations. Howeversources told CBS News affiliate WWL-TV the latest warrant is related to an additional victim from the same fight.

Telephone and email messages left Saturday with LaBeouf's attorney and New Orleans police weren't immediately returned.

On ThursdayJudge Simone Levine set a $100,000 bond and ordered LaBeouf to undergo drug testing and enroll in substance abuse treatmentWWL-TV reported. LaBeouf took a drug and alcohol test in the courthouseaccording to the station.

The actor posted bond and sprinted away from reporters after the hearingWWL-TV reported.

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 hearingLaBeouf's attorneySarah Chervinskytold the judge: "Franklybeing drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime."

In 2017LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia on charges of public drunkennessdisorderly conduct and obstruction. He later apologized after a video showed him making racist remarks during his arrest.