February 28, 2026 / 1:48 PM EST / CBS/AP
Actor Shia LaBeouf, who was charged with battery after police say he punched several people outside a New Orleans bar earlier this month, was arrested again Saturday and faces one additional count of simple battery, court records show.
It was not immediately clear whether the new charge is tied to the Feb. 17 altercation outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar, where police allege LaBeouf repeatedly used homophobic slurs while striking multiple people during Mardi Gras. Sources told CBS affiliate WWL-TV the latest warrant is related to an additional victim from that same fight.
Attempts to reach LaBeouf’s attorney and New Orleans police by phone and email were not immediately returned.
On Thursday, Judge Simone Levine set a $100,000 bond and ordered LaBeouf to undergo drug testing and enroll in substance abuse treatment. LaBeouf submitted to a drug and alcohol test at the courthouse and posted bond, then ran from reporters after the hearing, WWL-TV reported.
Video of the Feb. 17 incident shows a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and striking another in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” according to a New Orleans police report.
Jeffrey Damnit, a local entertainer identified in the report as Jeffrey Klein, said he was among those attacked. “He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit told The Associated Press. Damnit said LaBeouf became aggressive throughout the night, shouting homophobic slurs, threatening to beat people up and pushing him from behind earlier at the bar.
Damnit and others subdued LaBeouf and tried to get him to leave, but he remained combative. Police arrived around 12:45 a.m. on Fat Tuesday and arrested LaBeouf.
LaBeouf has not entered a plea and declined to speak to reporters after the judge ordered him to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation. His attorney, Sarah Chervinsky, told the court: “Frankly, being drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime.”
LaBeouf previously was arrested in 2017 in Georgia on charges of public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction; video from that arrest showed him making racist remarks, for which he later apologized.
