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Shia LaBeouf explains his drunken Walgreens arrest
By M&C People
May 14, 2008, 17:05 GMT

Actor Shia LaBeouf revealed to the world on David Letterman's chat show on Monday night the details of his drunken Walgreen’s arrest.

Blame it on pimple cream and cigarettes.

Retelling his tale, Shia was drunk and went to the drug store near his hotel to buy cigarettes. On the way down in the elevator he felt a big pimple forming on his forehead and decided to get some cream for it.

When he was in the cosmetics aisle picking up the Clearasil, the security guard started laughing at him and he got pissed off and forgot his smokes.

After going back and forth and several outfit changes, the guard continued to mock him. The third time elicited a mild confrontation with the guy which led to the arrest:

Said Shia: “So I go to Walgreen’s and I go to the cosmetic aisle,” LaBeouf recalled, “and I see the security guard and he’s looking at me, four in the morning, pretty disheveled, pretty messed up on the special magic sauce. And I get the pimple cream, and he’s looking at me, he’s kinda giggling to himself, and now I’m starting to feel like, `What? It’s really not that funny, guy, you know?’”

When he returned again to the Walgreens, he added: “I’m going, `Well, now the guy saw me, now what am I gonna do?’ So I do an outfit change.”

LaBeouf said the security guard noticed and said, “Hey, nice outfit,” to which he retorted: “Yeah, nice outfit to you, too.”

LaBeouf claimed he accidentally backed into the candy aisle, but tried to make it look like it was on purpose. “So I grabbed these gummy bears, and I’m like, `yeah, THESE,’” he recalled to Letterman.

The convoluted story continues: He said he bought his candy but oops, forgot his cancer sticks. He then donned a hooded sweatshirt and returned to the store a third time.

“I go back down, I got the hoodie on, he goes, `Really? Really? Really?’ And I’m like, `Yeah, really!’ He goes, `Well, what are you doing here?’ And I’m like, `Well buddy, it’s your worst nightmare,’” LaBeouf said.

He said at that point, another security guard put him in plastic handcuffs and took him to the ground, said LaBeouf, calling himself a “moron.”

LaBeouf was then charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing; the next day, he was Internet tuna.

“It was a photo shoot, (the officer’s) like, ‘Let me take like 14 mug shots,’” LaBeouf said.

Prosecutors later dropped charges because Walgreen Co. and a security company indicated they didn’t want to continue the case.

Transcipt courtesy of The Huffington Post.

Shia LaBeouf is set to star in "Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull" with Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett on May 22.