Well it seems that all that time isolated in a cabin in Lapland did nothing to improve Shia LaBeouf’s behavior. Shia has been investigated or arrested more times than I want to count. He was arrested for being physical with someone objecting to his anti-Trump art piece in January. He was found drunk and/or disorderly in both Austin and New York. He received the equivalent of a slap on his damaged hand for a DUI in California and he’s had a few incidents in London. So the fact that he got arrested once again for being drunk and disorderly in Savannah, Georgia where he is filming The Peanut Butter Falcon, is, sadly, not a huge shock. That he got mouthy with a cop when the officer wouldn’t give him a cigarette is a new twist. This all went down early Saturday morning after drunk Shia set out in search of a smoke. When the two people he asked said no, Shia shouted profanities at them. As luck would have it, one was a cop. Oops. Shia made a beeline into a hotel where we didn’t have a room and the cop cuffed him in the lobby.

Actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested in Georgia, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office confirms to HuffPost. 

A deputy sheriff at the office said the charges included obstruction, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. The deputy added no further information was available at this time.
TMZ, which also posted LaBeouf’s mugshot, first reported police arrested the actor for “being wasted and losing control of himself.” The incident occurred Saturday around 4 a.m., according to the Chatham County Sheriff Office website. 

According to a statement from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, the incident occurred when LaBeouf “approached a bystander and a police officer asking for a cigarette,” reports CNN. 

The statement continued, saying that the actor “became disorderly, using profanities and vulgar language, when he wasn’t given a cigarette.”

LaBeouf reportedly became aggressive toward the officer, refused to leave the area, and ran into a hotel when the officer tried to arrest him. He was then arrested in the hotel lobby.

[From Huffington Post]

The only other information we know is that the incident took place at 4AM and that Shia paid his $7,000 bond and was released. One report pointed out that women and children were present in the area when Shia started with his potty mouth. What were kids young enough they shouldn’t hear language doing out on the streets of Savannah at 4AM? But that’s beside the point. The point is, that other than the occasional bizarre art installation, the only news on Shia these days seems to involve his bad behavior. Maybe Shia is not my favorite person but I don’t like to see him destroying his life. He was supposed to get alcohol counseling after the New York charge and we all hoped he’s get anger management counseling after he gave his then girlfriend, Mia Goth, with a black eye. And he never takes responsibility for his actions. It’s either because he is so method or, shamefully, he blames his victim for provoking him. I don’t know if he skipped counseling or if it wasn’t enough. Whatever it was, Shia is a walking cry for help.

Shia’s next film due out is his biopic Borg vs. McEnroe. Shia is playing 1980 John McEnroe and the film looks good to me, partly because I remember the Wimbledon final portrayed in the film. If you watch the (red band) trailer here, Shia looks like he turns in a really good performance. I have always thought Shia a talented actor but with all his outbursts, Shia being cast as McEnroe is starting to feel like typecasting.

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