Actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkeness after becoming unruly in Savannah, Georgia.
LaBeouf, best known for his role as Sam Witwicky in the Transformers action movie franchise, was in the bustling City Market neighbourhood before dawn when he approached a bystander and a police officer and asked for a cigarette, Savannah police said in a statement.
"When LaBeouf wasn't given a cigarette, he became disorderly, using profanities and vulgar language in front of the women and children present," the statement said.
He became aggressive toward the officer when asked to leave, police said, and when the officer tried to arrest LaBeouf he ran into a hotel lobby.
Eventually he was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and obstruction, and booked into the Chatham County jail, authorities said.
He was released a few hours later, the Chatham County Sheriff's Office said.
A spokeswoman for LaBeouf, 31, did not return a call or email seeking comment.
LaBeouf was in Savannah to act in independent movie The Peanut Butter Falcon, according to trade publication Variety.
This is the latest in a series of arrests for LaBeouf.
In January, he was arrested after a scuffle outside a New York museum where he was chanting, "He will not divide us," during a live-streamed protest against President Donald Trump.
In 2014 he was arrested after disturbing a performance of the musical Cabaret on Broadway in New York, which led to him pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct violation and receiving outpatient care for addiction.
LaBeouf, after playing the main protagonist in the Transformers series, did not star in the latest movie in the franchise, titled The Last Knight, which opened in the US last month.
