{"id":303896,"date":"2026-02-18T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:39:11","slug":"actor-shia-labeouf-arrested-after-alleged-fight-during-mardi-gras-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303896\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested after alleged fight during Mardi Gras in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested after being accused of hitting two men during Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, police said.<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf was charged with two counts of simple battery, New Orleans police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to a business in the French Quarter at about 12.45am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said an employee tried to remove LaBeouf and once outside the actor allegedly hit a man \u201cmultiple times with closed fists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/actor-shia-labeouf-arrested-after-alleged-fight-during-mardi-gras-in-new-orleans.jpg\" alt=\"Shia LaBeouf\" data-title=\"Shia LaBeouf\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"2025 Invision\" data-credit=\"Natacha Pisarenko\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"\/>Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans (Natacha Pisarenko\/AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that LaBeouf left the area but allegedly later returned and continued to act aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple individuals attempted to restrain him, releasing him in hopes he would leave,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man who was first allegedly hit by LaBeouf told police the actor hit him again. Another man told officers that LaBeouf also allegedly punched him on the nose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was held down until officers arrived,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf was taken to hospital for treatment for unknown injuries and after being released he was arrested and taken into custody by police.<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf is perhaps best known for his roles in 2007\u2032s Transformers and in 2008\u2019s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested after being accused of hitting two men during Mardi Gras celebrations in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}