Actor Shia LaBeouf, who was arrested and charged with battery after police say he punched several people outside a New Orleans bar earlier this month, was arrested again on Saturday and charged with one additional count of simple battery, court records show.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the new charge is connected to the Feb. 17 brawl outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar, where LaBeouf is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people during Mardi Gras celebrations.
Telephone and email messages left Saturday with LaBeouf’s attorney and New Orleans police weren’t immediately returned.
In the Feb. 17 incident, a video shows a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” according to a New Orleans police report.
Jeffrey Damnit, a well-known local entertainer who police identified as Jeffrey Klein in the incident report, said he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf.
“He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit told The Associated Press.
LeBeouf appeared in court on Thursday and his bond was increased to $100,000.
Judge Levine ordered weekly drug and alcohol testing, alcohol treatment, and stay-away orders from the alleged victims and the bar where the incident occurred.
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