NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 misdemeanor count of simple battery, court records show.
LaBeouf’s attorney said in a statement that his arrest is connected to a Feb. 17 brawl outside the Royal Street Inn & R Bar near the French Quarter for which LaBeouf had previously been arrested. In that case, LaBeouf is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people during Mardis Gras celebrations.
LaBeouf’s attorney Sarah Chervinsky said when they learned New Orleans police issued a new arrest warrant Friday, LaBeouf voluntarily turned himself in to the Orleans Parish jail.
“No regular person would be required to post over $100,000 in bonds, and be jailed two separate times for one misdemeanor incident,” Chervinsky said. “Just as he does not deserve preferential treatment, Mr. LaBeouf also does not deserve to be treated more harshly by the police and courts just because he is a public figure.”
Telephone and email messages left Saturday with New Orleans police were not 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.
LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others that he would beat them up, Damnit said. He added that LaBeouf had pushed him from behind at the bar earlier in the night, shouting homophobic slurs and threatening his life.
Damnit and others subdued LaBeouf and tried to get him to leave the area, but he would not leave and became more aggressive, according to Damnit and the police report.
Police arrived at the bar around 12:45 a.m. on the morning of the city’s famous Fat Tuesday revelry and arrested LaBeouf.
LaBeouf has not entered a plea and declined to talk to reporters on Thursday after a New Orleans judge ordered him to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation. During that hearing, Chervinsky told the judge: “Frankly, being drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime.”
2026.2.28 NYC mother stabbed to death by maniac beau, son badly injured, cops say
A woman was fatally stabbed and her teenage son was badly hurt after her beau allegedly attacked them with a knife Saturday morning in the Bronx, cops said.
Yesenia Hall, 42, was stabbed in the neck and torso and her 16-year-old son in the neck and back around 6:30 a.m. in their apartment on Sherman Ave. in Highbridge, according to police.
The 45-year-old maniac who allegedly attacked them changed his clothes after the bloodshed and fled, authorities said.
The suspect was last seen wearing a neon vest and a hardhat at a construction site at 163rd Street and College Avenue, cops said.
Police said the dispute was domestic in nature.
A trail of blood stained the floor from the hallway outside the apartment to the building’s front doors, which included a red smear.
Family members clamored to get into the apartment but were held back by police.
“Oh my God, I want to go in there,” said one woman.
Relatives left a short time later carrying suitcases. One woman held a puppy wrapped in a brown blanket close to her chest.
Neighbor Shanae Headen, 33, said she was woken up by a commotion.
“I heard a lot of movements like somebody was thrown, you know, to the wall or something or somebody was moving furniture or something,” she told The Post.
“I heard [someone] saying … ‘No, no, no, no,’” she recalled, noting that the voice didn’t sound like an adult. “Maybe it was a teenager saying that.”
2026.2.28 Federal prosecutors won’t appeal ruling barring death penalty in Luigi Mangione case
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Friday they won’t appeal a judge’s ruling that bars them from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a letter, Deputy U.S. Attorney Sean Buckley told Judge Margaret Garnett that the government will not ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse her decision, clearing the way for a trial beginning in September. His state murder trial is set to start in June.
Garnett last month dismissed a federal murder charge — murder through use of a firearm — that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment, finding it legally flawed.
She wrote that she did so to “foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury” when it weighs whether to convict Mangione in the December 2024 killing in Manhattan.
The man accused of throwing icy snowballs at New York’s Finest told The Post on Friday that he was just part of a crowd “enjoying the moment’’ that day — as he shamelessly promoted his YouTube account and gave a “shoutout” to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“It was meant to be fun, that’s all,’’ said suspect Gusmane Coulibaly, a Bronx 27-year-old who goes by “Diaperman’’ while supposedly pulling pranks, recording them and posting them on the platform.
“People of all ages were there just enjoying the moment,’’ said Coulibaly of the incident — which sent two cops to the hospital during the social-media-touted snowball fight Monday that drew hundreds of people to Washington Square Park.
“Fun doesn’t have an age limit. I’m 27, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy life,’’ he wrote during the exchange with The Post on Instagram.
His no “age limit’’ comment was apparently a nod to Mamdani’s now-infamous defense of the snowball-fight participants as just “kids’’ having fun.
“There were people older than me there too. It wasn’t about age — it was about being outside and having a good time,’’ Coulibaly said.
“I came with the mindset that we’d have fun and go home. That’s it,” Coulibaly wrote.
“And film for my channel on YouTube: lifeofdiaper,” he added — getting in the plug for himself, including by offering the day and time he streams.
Asked whether he was aware cops had been injured, Coulibaly replied, “I’m not going to speak on specific details because the case is still ongoing.
“What I will say is, I never wanted anyone to get hurt. That was never the intention. I came with the mindset of having fun and going home, like everyone else,’’ Coulibaly said.
The suspect had been picked up earlier this month for allegedly harassing and trying to rob a straphanger.
In Monday’s incident, Coulibaly was initially charged with assault on a cop, as well as obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct.
The cop-assault rap was then tossed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office claimed it did not have enough evidence to support the charge because it couldn’t prove Coulibaly’s actions could be tied to the most seriously hurt officer’s injuries.
The DA’s office ended up settling on lesser charges of harassment and the government-obstruction rap.
Coulibaly was released from custody to await his next court hearing.
Both Mamdani and Bragg have been blasted as the city’s “Axis of Anarchy’’ over their handling of the troubling incident.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has called the pelting of the cops “criminal’’ and vowed to protect her ranks.
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A brazen street crew tore through Long Island, New York City, Westchester and Dutchess counties — and even hit places in Florida — during a 17-day string of wild armed robberies, prosecutors said.
Nine men, some with known gang ties to the Bloods, were indicted on 38 charges from a crime spree that includes 10 auto shop burglaries, three armed robberies, two home invasions, and stealing multiple vehicles in both states from July and August of last year.
“The escalation of criminality alleged in such a short period of time — is staggering,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told reporters Friday at the H. Lee Dennisson building in Hauppauge.
Tierney said the alleged Suffolk County-based crew operated like a mobile smash-and-grab unit — targeting auto-body shops for cash, blank checks, keys and license plates, then swapping out stolen plates to stay ahead of law enforcement as they barreled upstate and down the East Coast.
The spree began last July, when the crew allegedly drove a stolen BMW M3 from Suffolk to Westchester County and smashed through the front windows of three auto-body shops in a single night, making off with hundreds of dollars and roughly 200 blank checks.
Just days later, two of the crew allegedly hit shops in Dutchess County, stealing a white Chevrolet Suburban from a Hyde Park business before using it to burglarize another shop in Poughkeepsie, where the DA said they walked out with blank checks, 48 sets of New York State license plates, and an entire safe that contained $5,000 in cash.
On the ride back to Long Island, the pair allegedly took a detour into Nassau County and shattered the front glass of a Lamborghini dealership, but the store’s alarm system sent the crew running in a failed attempt to steal one of the high-end sports cars.
Two of the men then traveled to Florida between July 27 and July 29 to buy guns, as they’re easier for criminals to acquire in the state, and continued their spree down south.
While there, they allegedly obtained two guns and stole a Dodge Charger — swapping its plates with the ones taken from the upstate shop to avoid detection, they then carjacked a BMW sedan on the drive back north.
But they ditched the ride just moments after realizing it was a stick-shift and they had no idea how to drive it.
They then drove back to New York where they allegedly stopped in Sleepy Hollow, breaking into another auto-body shop before returning to Suffolk, according to the DA,
Once back on Long Island, the crew was now beaming with confidence and decided to escalate their crimes, the DA alleged.
The crew used the guns purchased in Florida, and carried out a home invasion at an Amityville apartment complex — stealing keys to a Porsche SUV and several thousand dollars in cash.
The Porsche was later abandoned in Queens, according to prosecutors.
Over the next two days, members of the crew then allegedly hit a Deer Park auto shop and then carjacked a woman outside her residence and stole her Mercury sedan before attempting yet another break-in in Amityville.
The spree finally ended on Aug. 4 with a gunpoint home invasion in Bay Shore, where five of the crew members are accused of storming into a residence, terrorizing a woman who was home alone at gun points, and stealing roughly $4,700 in cash before police arrived and arrested two of the men involved.
One of them, Leny Cruz, 23, from Brooklyn, was allegedly carrying a loaded .45-caliber handgun, $2,000 in cash and the key fob to the stolen Dodge Charger they had boosted in Florida, prosecutors said.
Police also recovered the Charger in the area and allegedly found several of the stolen New York license plates inside — the same ones swiped from the Dutchess County auto shop days earlier.
Authorities said the alleged ring is responsible for nearly 20 separate crimes across multiple counties and states in just over two weeks.
The nine who are charged in connection with the spree are Cruz, Edward Nunez, 28, and Noel Santelises, 21 — all from Brooklyn — along with Harvin Parra, 20, Jose Ramos, 20, and Carlos Benitez-Montoya, 20 — all of Bay Shore — as well as Justin Kenny, 24, of Bohemia, Savion Jones, 22, of Huntington Station, and Robert Salters, 20, of Wyandanch.
Several of the defendants face top counts of Robbery in the First Degree, facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted while others face mainly burglary and robbery charges.
2026.2.27 NYPD detective who named K9 dog after hero dad killed in line of duty is promoted: ‘I think he would be proud’
An NYPD detective who named her K9 dog after her father — who was killed in the line of duty nearly 30 years ago — was promoted Friday as she told The Post her slain hero dad would be “proud.”
Katrina J. Narvaez, 38, was one of 11 members of New York’s Finest promoted to detective second-grade at a One Police Plaza ceremony presided over by Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Narvaez was just 9 years old when her dad, Lt. Frederico Narvaez, was fatally shot while responding to a domestic incident in Flatbush on Oct. 18, 1996.
“I think [my dad] would be proud,” said Narvaez, who is married and expecting a child of her own – her first. “He was proud of his position in the NYPD and being around other cops and taking care of them.”
But it wasn’t until after her father’s death that she got to know his family in blue, who shared stories about him and showed her what it meant to protect and serve New Yorkers, she said.
“I didn’t really know what cops were until he passed away and I got to interact with a whole group of people, and I saw that they really cared about the community and about helping and about others,” Narvaez told The Post. “And it made me want to be a part of it.”
Narvaez entered the NYPD’s police academy in January of 2013, before joining Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct, where she was a patrol cop and later worked for the domestic violence unit.
Her love for animals drew her to her next assignment, working with a Vapor Wake K9 dog – trained to detect guns and explosives – in the department’s elite Emergency Service Unit.
She trained in Alabama for two months to prepare her to work with her new four-legged partner, a wire-haired pointer/Labrador mix.
“I was really happy when I came on the NYPD and I had hope that I would come on the K9 unit,” Narvaez said. “But when I actually got in, it was amazing and it changed my life.”
The opportunity held an even deeper meaning for Narvaez when she had the opportunity to name the K9 after her hero dad – calling him Freddy.
“He’s my best friend,” she said. “I’m with him more than I’m with any friend or family member.”
But soon, Narvaez will face the bittersweet reality of being paired with a new dog – as Freddy is 9 years old, the age of retirement for department K9s.
But in the meantime, she and her loved ones are relishing in the excitement at her promotion.
“I am so appreciative,” Narvaez said. “It means a lot to myself and my family. I was hoping that maybe one day this would happen, but the fact that it happened now is amazing.”
“I couldn’t be here without the support of my mom and my husband and my family and friends, both on and off the NYPD.”
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2026.2.27 Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of rape released from prison following murder conviction
Crystal Mangum, a 47-year-old former exotic dancer, served time for murdering her boyfriend.
The woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of raping her two decades ago walked free from a North Carolina prison on Friday after serving time for the slaying of her boyfriend.
Crystal Mangum, a 47-year-old former exotic dancer, wore a gray sweatshirt and khaki pants as she left the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh at about 9:49 a.m. ET.
She was led into a white North Carolina Department of Adult Correction car and a parole officer then drove her to Durham, where Mangum will be living with a friend, agency spokesperson Brad Deen said.
She’ll be living under terms of her parole for nine months, Deen added.
She’d been serving time on second-degree murder conviction for the 2011 slaying of boyfriend Reginald Daye.
Mangum was thrust into the national spotlight when she and another dancer performed at party thrown by Duke lacrosse players on March 13, 2006, and then accused three of the athletes of assaulting her.
The allegations against the three players touched off a national conversation on hot-button topics such as sex work, race, gender and class.
Mangum later admitted to making false allegations, but those lies had done their damage.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong,” she told podcaster Katerena DePasquale’s “Let’s Talk with Kat” in a December 2024 interview.
“I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God, and that was wrong when God already loved me for who I was,” she said.
Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was found to have withheld evidence from defense lawyers that could have cleared the men much earlier. The prosecutor was disbarred in 2007.
Mangum was convicted in 2013 for second-degree murder in the stabbing of her boyfriend Daye to death in April 2011. She was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.
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