Actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested and charged with two counts of simple battery, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The incident in question took place early in the morning on Tuesday, February 17, at R Bar in New Orleans. After being removed from R Bar, LaBeouf allegedly hit a man multiple times with closed fists. According to the police report, he then left but later came back, allegedly acting more aggressive. After multiple people attempted to hold him down, LeBeouf was allegedly let up, as the police report puts it, “in hopes that he would leave.” But he then allegedly kept hitting the same man. After that, he allegedly punched a different man in the nose, and then was held down until police arrived on the scene. He was then taken to a hospital, arrested, and charged.
TMZ has posted a video it claims was taken before police arrived. It shows a shirtless LeBeouf on the ground. As LaBeouf rolls off his back, a person says, “Stay down,” and punches LaBeouf multiple times in the head. Multiple people tell the actor to, “Chill.”
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Before this incident, LaBeouf had been on a multi-day bar crawl in celebration of Mardi Gras. On Sunday, he patronized Ms. Mae’s, allegedly showing up without a shirt, although he did put it on when told he had to. According to the doorman, “He did the ‘Do you know who I am?’ bit” and tried to “be a celebrity bartender” before being asked to leave. A bartender who served LaBeouf on Thursday said, “He is terrorizing the city!”
Shia LaBeouf Has a History of Getting Into Trouble
Shia LaBeouf is known for his roles in movies like Holes, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Honey Boy. He’s worked consistently for decades, appearing last year alongside Toby Kebbell in a boxing drama called Salvable.
In that time, he’s also become known for his erratic, sometimes violent behavior, with a record of arrests that go back to 2014. In 2020, he was criminally charged with misdemeanor battery after an altercation that involved another man. The 2025 documentary Slauson Rec shows LaBeouf berating and getting physical with students at the free acting school he started at the Saluson Rec Center in South Central, Los Angeles in 2018, which is no longer in operation. The documentary was released with LaBeouf’s blessing.
LaBeouf has been open about his struggles with substance abuse in the past, and talked about his sobriety as recently as May of 2025.
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