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Shia LaBeouf Arrested on Battery Charges During Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Shia LaBeouf is facing legal trouble.
The Holes actor was arrested in New Orleans amid the city’s Mardi Gras celebrations Feb. 17, according to online jail records viewed by E! News.
LaBeouf, 39, was arrested on charges of simple battery, which is categorized as a misdemeanor offense.
E! News has reached out to reps for LaBeouf regarding his arrest.
The New Orleans Police Department confirmed that the Disney alum was taken into custody just after 12 a.m. local time after two victims were “reportedly assaulted.”
“A man identified as 39-year-old Shia LaBeouf was reportedly causing a disturbance and becoming increasingly aggressive at a Royal Street business,” authorities said in a statement to E! News. “A staff member attempted to eject Mr. LaBeouf from the establishment. Once removed from the building, the victim reported being struck by LaBeouf who used his closed fists on the victim several times.”
Police noted that one of the victims said LaBeouf then left the scene before returning again “acting even more aggressive.”
“Multiple people attempted to hold him down—he was eventually let up in hopes that he would leave—but he reportedly again struck the same victim with closed fists to the victim’s upper body,” authorities continued in a statement. “LaBeouf then reportedly assaulted another person—punching him in the nose.”
Prior to his arrest, police confirmed that LaBeouf was taken to the hospital for “treatment of unknown injuries.”
LaBeouf—who reconciled with wife Mia Goth in 2020 after tying the knot in 2018—is set to appear in court on the afternoon of Feb. 17, with a pre-trial appearance set for March 19. According to Louisiana state legislature, a person convicted of simple battery can be fined “no more” than $1,000 or imprisoned for “not more” than six months, or both.
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In July, LaBeouf reached the end of another legal entanglement with ex FKA Twigs (real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett)—whom he dated in 2019—when she dropped her $10 million lawsuit against him, filing to dismiss all her claims with prejudice, according to documents obtained by E! News at the time.
“Committed to forging a constructive path forward, we have agreed to settle our case out of court,” Barnett’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a joint statement with LaBeouf’s attorney Shawn Holley. “While the details of the settlement will remain private, we wish each other personal happiness, professional success and peace in the future.”
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