Shia LaBeouf has once again been arrested in New Orleans in connection with an alleged Mardi Gras-related incident.
The Associated Press reported on Saturday, February 28, that LaBeouf, 39, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of misdemeanor simple battery. This charge is related to his previous arrest on two counts of battery for allegedly striking an unidentified victim multiple times while being escorted out of a New Orleans restaurant on February 17.
The incident allegedly occurred at the Royal Street Inn & R Bar, near New Orleans’ French Quarter, where LaBeouf allegedly had a confrontation with multiple people during Mardi Gras festivities.
His attorney, Sarah Chervinsky, told the Associated Press that LaBeouf voluntarily turned himself in at the Orleans Parish jail after learning that a new arrest warrant was issued on Friday, February 27.
“No regular person would be required to post over $100,000 in bonds, and be jailed two separate times for one misdemeanor incident,” Chervinsky told the outlet. “Just as he does not deserve preferential treatment, Mr. LaBeouf also does not deserve to be treated more harshly by the police and courts just because he is a public figure.”
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for LaBeouf and the New Orleans Police Department for comment.
Following his arrest on February 17, LaBeouf appeared in court that same day and now has a pretrial hearing set for Thursday, March 19. He was advised by the judge to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation during his initial court appearance. (LaBeouf has yet to enter a plea for any of the three pending charges.)
The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull actor — who has had multiple run-ins with the law over the years — initially responded to his arrest by tweeting “free me” hours after the alleged Mardi Gras altercation.
He has since sat down for an interview with Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, which was released Saturday, where he responded to his arrest by saying it’s “not nice to hurt people ever.”
“It’s f***ing lame,” he insisted. “People got hurt, I got to deal with that. I’mma deal with that in full. I’ll eat it all. It’s on me. I f***ed up.”
LaBeouf said he’d relocated from Los Angeles to New Orleans because he’d “failed [in his] marriage” to Mia Goth but admitted he’d “hit a roadblock” with this latest setback. (Goth, 32, and LaBeouf were together on an off from 2012 to 2025.)
“I was drunk, and then I felt infringed upon, like, in terms of my proximity,” the former Even Stevens star explained. “I wasn’t in my right mind, so it’s on me. … It was probably just my fault, for, somewhere. I don’t know how, but I’m going to figure it out.”
He then dismissed the idea of going to rehab, saying, “My behavior? Bulls***. I gotta deal with it. Does that mean I got to go to rehab again? I’m just not into it, bro. I don’t think my answers are there, I don’t. If I genuinely did, I’d go. I don’t think I have a drinking problem. I think I have a different problem, and I’m going to address it.”
As for why the Mardi Gras incident occurred, LaBeouf suggested that he has “a small man complex” which is “something that has to do with anger and ego more so than my drinking.”
“What kind of things set off that anger? I mean, boy, I haven’t experienced that for a while, but I’ll be honest with you, big gay people are scary to me,” he told Channel 5 News. “When I’m standing by myself and three gay dudes are next to me, touching my leg, I get scared. I’m sorry if that’s homophobic, then I’m that. It just happened one time, [and] that’s why I got arrested.”
LaBeouf ultimately admitted that he was “wrong for touching anyone ever.”
“That’s the end of my statement on this whole s***,” he insisted.
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