Shia LaBeouf has damaged his silence after being arrested throughout Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, posting a cryptic message on social media that merely learn, “Free Me.”
The actor, 39, was taken into custody following an alleged altercation at a neighborhood venue throughout the metropolis’s annual celebrations. In keeping with police reviews, LaBeouf was requested to depart the celebration after changing into more and more aggressive. The scenario escalated outdoors, the place he allegedly struck two males throughout separate confrontations earlier than bystanders intervened and restrained him till authorities arrived.
LaBeouf was later transported to a hospital for therapy of unspecified accidents earlier than being booked on two counts of straightforward battery and subsequently launched.
His brief submit — “Free Me” — marked his solely public remark following the incident.
The arrest provides to a protracted historical past of authorized troubles for the actor, who first rose to fame as a baby star on Even Stevens earlier than transitioning into blockbuster roles in movies like Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Cranium. In recent times, LaBeouf has confronted a number of controversies and authorized challenges, together with a lawsuit filed by musician FKA twigs, which was settled in 2025.
Authorities haven’t but launched additional particulars in regards to the Mardi Gras incident, and LaBeouf’s representatives haven’t issued an official assertion past his temporary message.
In 2007, LaBeouf starred within the commercially profitable movies Disturbia and Surf’s Up. From 2007 to 2011, LaBeouf starred within the movie Transformers and its sequels. The three movies had been commercially profitable. In 2008, he performed Henry “Mutt Williams” Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium.
His different credit embody the movies Holes (2003), Constantine (2005), Wall Avenue: Cash By no means Sleeps (2010) and Lawless (2012) amongst others.
