Actor Shia LaBeouf has been taken into custody again in New Orleans on an additional misdemeanor charge of simple battery stemming from a February altercation during Mardi Gras celebrations, court records show, reports Baltimore Chronicle via ABC.
According to official records from Orleans Parish, LaBeouf was rearrested Saturday and booked on one more count of simple battery related to a Feb. 17 confrontation outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar, located near the French Quarter. He had previously been arrested in connection with the same incident earlier this month.
LaBeouf’s attorney, Sarah Chervinsky, confirmed in a statement that the new arrest is tied to the Feb. 17 altercation. She said that after learning on Friday that New Orleans police had issued an additional arrest warrant, LaBeouf voluntarily surrendered to authorities at the Orleans Parish jail.
“No regular person would be required to post over $100,000 in bonds, and be jailed two separate times for one misdemeanor incident,” Chervinsky said. “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.”
Attempts to obtain comment from the New Orleans Police Department on Saturday were unsuccessful. Telephone and email inquiries were not immediately returned.
The original Feb. 17 incident occurred during Mardi Gras festivities. A police report states that video footage shows LaBeouf, shirtless at the time, pushing one individual to the ground and striking another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate.” Authorities allege that during the confrontation LaBeouf repeatedly used homophobic slurs while engaging in physical aggression against multiple individuals.
Among those involved was local entertainer Jeffrey Damnit, identified by police in the report as Jeffrey Klein. Damnit told The Associated Press that he was assaulted during the encounter.
“He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit said.
Damnit described LaBeouf as attempting to instigate fights and threatening to beat him and others present. He said that earlier in the evening, LaBeouf had pushed him from behind inside the bar, shouting homophobic slurs and making threats against his life.
According to both Damnit and the police report, LaBeouf was restrained by those present, who tried to persuade him to leave the area. The situation allegedly escalated when he refused to depart and became increasingly aggressive.
Police officers arrived at the Royal Street Inn & R Bar at approximately 12:45 a.m. on the morning of the city’s Fat Tuesday celebrations and placed LaBeouf under arrest.
Court records indicate that LaBeouf has not yet entered a plea in the case. On Thursday, following a court hearing before a New Orleans judge, he declined to speak with reporters. During that proceeding, the judge ordered him to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Addressing the court, Chervinsky stated, “Frankly, being drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime.”
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