Feb. 28, 2026 — Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested Saturday and is facing an additional count of simple battery, court records show. The new charge follows a Feb. 17 confrontation outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar in New Orleans, where police say LaBeouf punched several people during Mardi Gras and used homophobic slurs.
Sources told CBS affiliate WWL-TV that the latest warrant is connected to an additional alleged victim from the same altercation. It was not immediately clear from court records whether the new count stems from newly reported injuries or further review of the earlier incident.
Attempts to reach LaBeouf’s attorney and representatives of the New Orleans Police Department by phone and email were not immediately returned.
On Thursday, Judge Simone Levine set LaBeouf’s bond at $100,000 and ordered him to undergo drug testing and enroll in substance abuse treatment. LaBeouf submitted to a drug and alcohol test at the courthouse and posted bond; WWL-TV reported he ran from reporters after the hearing.
Police body-camera and surveillance video of the Feb. 17 incident show 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 police documents 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 increasingly aggressive that night, shouting homophobic slurs, threatening to beat people up and pushing him from behind earlier while they were inside the bar.
Damnit and others subdued LaBeouf and tried to escort him out, but he remained combative until officers arrived around 12:45 a.m. on Fat Tuesday and took him into custody.
LaBeouf has not yet 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 has had prior run-ins with the law: he was arrested in 2017 in Georgia on charges including public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. Video from that arrest captured him making racist remarks, for which he later apologized.