Shia LaBeouf reportedly received two years of probation after pleading guilty to battery in a New Orleans bar fight. On Wednesday, June 3, the 39-year-old actor pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery. This is in connection with his February 17 arrest for getting into a brawl and punching people at a Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans.
Shia LaBeouf reportedly pleads guilty and gets probation after bar incident
Shia LaBeouf has reportedly been sentenced to two years of probation. This is after he pleaded guilty to three counts of battery in a New Orleans bar incident. Not only that, Orleans Parish Judge Juana Marine-Lombard handed the actor a six-month suspended sentence.
LaBeouf has been ordered to stay away from the victims and the bar, as well(via AP News). As per the actor’s attorney, Sarah Chervinsky, LaBeouf must attend an alcohol treatment program under the sentence handed down by an Orleans Parish judge.
Moreover, Chervinsky said that the 39-year-old actor wanted “to take accountability for his part in what happened.” He also termed it a “minor Mardi Gras bar tussle.” LaBeouf’s attorney added that there was “no evidence it was about bias or prejudice.”
Previously, the Transformers star was arrested shortly after midnight on February 17 after being escorted out of a bar in the French Quarter. In the altercation video, LaBeouf is aggressively shoving an individual to the ground. As per the New Orleans police report, he hit another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate.” Reportedly, the Salvable star repeatedly used homophobic slurs and continued to do so even when he got arrested.
Shortly after his arrest in February, a judge ordered the actor to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation. However, in an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan, LaBeouf denied having a “drinking problem.” The Indiana Jones star also expressed his apprehensions about rehab. He explained to Callaghan that the real reason behind his aggressive behavior during the bar incident was not alcohol but rather “anger and ego.”
