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DUI charge in car accident may be blemish to Shia LaBeouf's rising star


Posted on Jul 30, 2008

In a town overrun with young stars behaving badly, Shia LaBeouf has appeared as something of a Hollywood golden boy — one of the industry's few bona fide megastars in the making.

He's been a sought-after actor for almost half of his 22-year-old life and a Steven Spielberg favorite, carefully groomed for stardom.

But with his arrest Sunday in Los Angeles on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, LaBeouf's rising star earned its first significant blemish and cause for damage control.

LaBeouf was arrested 3 a.m. in West Hollywood after his pickup collided with another vehicle, rolling the truck over. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Wolf said it was "immediately apparent" to officers on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated.

With him was Isabel Lucas, a 23-year-old Australian actress who plays a supporting role in the "Transformers" sequel "Revenge of the Fallen," according to a person close to the movie's production who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release that information. She was uninjured, as was the driver of the other car.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Tuesday that detectives have determined that the accident wasn't LaBeouf's fault and that the other driver apparently ran a red light.

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