For someone who only recently promised to clean up his behaviour, he's not doing a good job of it. Yesterday (Sunday 3am LA time), he crashed his car while drunk, injuring himself, his passenger and the driver of the other car. The crash occured from an alleged illegal left turn, that hit another car and cause his own car to roll.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391755,00.html
He was originally arrested for Felony DUI (drunk under the influence), but released on a misdemeanor DUI (a lesser charge).
His past offences (drunken trespassing in a Walgreens store, Smoking and loitering in a non-smoking area) have been dismissed or dropped, but this one is more serious, and should end up being a criminal conviction on his record. Not to mention bring the new TF2 movie in disrepute in the process if this behaviour continues into next year.
I was surprised to read that he is only 22, but already has multiple publicists and attornies on hand.
One news source says that the only reason he didn't get charged as the more serious 'felony DUI' is because the injuries of the other 2 people in the accident were minor, despite him rolling his car in the accident. It looks like his left hand was injured enough to require surgery though, and if he is still has scenes to film in TF2, it could delay the movie.
Posted Jul 27th 2008 8:37AM
http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/27/shia-l...opped-for-dui/
Posted Jul 27th 2008 10:03AM
http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/27/shia-m...p-in-dui-bust/
Posted Jul 27th 2008 11:25AM
http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/27/shia-d...felony-bullet/
Nothing positive is being said about Shia at the moment on the global fan forums, to the extent that it wouldn't be a huge loss if he wasn't in TF3.