Up until very recently, Transformers star and full-time adorable man-puppy Shia LaBeouf was in a whole lot of trouble for trespassing.

Shia LaBeouf was arrested in a Chicago branch of Walgreens last month for appearing drunk and not leaving when a security guard asked him to – but all that trouble is far behind him now. Less than one minute after his hearing started earlier today, Shia LaBeouf quickly found out that Walgreens had written the court a letter wanting to drop the charges against him. Nobody knows what cause Walgreen's sudden change of heart, but it's thought that the key phrase from the letter was "Oh, how could I ever stay mad at an adorable face like yours? Ubba dubba dubba. Ubba dubba dubba. Ubba dubba dubba dubba dubba."

There's no doubting that Shia LaBeouf's face is his fortune. Made of marshmallows and kitten fluff and the innocent daydreams of children, Shia LaBeouf's face has got him out of all kinds of trouble in the past. For instance, blabbing the title of the new Indiana Jones movie could have been a sackable offence, but it took just three seconds of Shia making his eyes all big and sad and adorable for Steven Spielberg to forgive him of everything, grab him by the cheeks and go "Ubba dubba dubba" at him for upwards of 90 minutes.

And now Shia LaBeouf's inherent adorability has even beaten the law. Last month, you'll remember that Shia LaBeouf was arrested in a Chicago branch of Walgreens because he appeared to be drunk and refused to listen to the security guard's requests to leave. Hit with a misdemeanour trespassing charge, Shia politely posted bail and was released, pending a following hearing.

That hearing's just happened in a Chicago courtroom, and Shia LaBeouf has got off scot free. Not that he wasn't prepared to fight, you understand – Shia LaBeouf apparently turned up to court with two of Chicago's most expensive lawyers – but he just didn't have to.

Less than a minute into the hearing, the judge revealed that he'd received a letter from Walgreens stating that it no longer wanted to pursue the case against Shia LaBeouf and that all charges had been dropped. The judge then added that he could have informed everyone of this by the phone, but he just wanted to see if Shia was as adorable in the flesh as everyone says. Bringing his gavel down with a crack, the judge ruled that Shia LaBeouf was indeed highly adorable, then leapt over his podium, grabbed Shia by the face and went "Ubba dubba dubba dubba dubba" at him. For all we know they're both still there now.

So Shia LaBeouf is off the hook for now. The test for him now will be to see how many more terrible crimes he can commit with his adorable little face. Oh, who are we kidding? Shia LaBeouf could poison our local water supply and burn down our hospitals and we'd still forgive him. With that face? Ubba dubba dubba.

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Trespassing charge against Shia LaBeouf dropped – Chicago Tribune 

Watch out Foxy Brown, there's a new angry young thing causing trouble on the streets, and he looks a lot like the annoying child sidekick from Constantine – OK, actually he is the annoying child sidekick from Constantine.

That's Shia LaBeouf from Transformers to you. Shia LaBeouf might just be the world's next big movie superstar in the making, but that isn't going to stop him from being a streetwalkin' menace to society, as his arrest early on Sunday morning has proved. It's been reported that Shia LaBeouf got himself arrested for trespassing after he, um, politely refused to leave a Chicago pharmacy a couple of times. Whatever next? The boy from Malcolm In The Middle getting busted for accidentally putting a green glass bottle in a brown glass recycling bin? Where will the madness end? Where?

Lots of people are calling Shia LaBeouf the next Tom Hanks, thanks to the touch of everyman he brings to all his roles. Were it not for Shia LaBeouf's herky-jerky acting in Transformers, for example, it wouldn't have been the muddled teen comedy about giant robots who talk slang, piddle on government officials and watch Shia LaBeouf have sex that we all know and love; it would have been an action thriller about massive angry robots relentlessly smashing each other to pieces in eye-searing explosive close-ups. And, you know, who'd want to see that?

But the thing that might stop Shia LaBeouf from becoming the new Tom Hanks – aside from an understandable unwillingness to grow his hair into an awful mullet and star in a film about Jesus having it off with Amelie – is his penchant for troublemaking. Up until now, Shia's most publicised act of defiance came when, after he got the biggest role of his life as Indiana Jones' sidekick in the fourth Indiana Jones movie, Shia LaBeouf jeopardised everything by blabbing the movie's secret title in front of the world at the MTV VMAs without Steven Spielberg's consent. 

And if Shia LaBeouf getting in Spielberg's bad books isn't a big enough thing to worry about, now Shia LaBeouf has got in trouble with the law. And, even in a world of celebrity child-killing and alleged celebrity armed robbery, Shia LaBeouf's crime is so appallingly horrific that we can barely mention it. Shia LaBeouf was… Shia LaBeouf was arrested for trespassing because he didn't leave a pharmacy when he was asked to.

We know. The sick bastard. 

According to reports, Shia LaBeouf was in a Chicago branch of the Walgreens pharmacy early on Sunday morning when a security guard – for some unknown reason – repeatedly asked him to leave. Shia apparently refused, police were called and Shia was arrested for trespassing.

But Shia LaBeouf didn't go down without a fight. Oh, wait, no, Shia LaBeouf didn't go down with a fight, as Chicago police spokesperson Joann Taylor told E! Online:

"Once they asked him to leave, he should've left, but at that point it was trespassing. But he was very polite and everything."

Shia LaBeouf was later released after he posted bail and is now scheduled to appear in court for a hearing on November 28. But that's hardly what matters here – what matters is that there's a new bad boy in town, and his name is Shia LaBeouf. This trespass arrest will act as a warning to Shia's many enemies that if they don't treat him respect, they'll be next. And, trust us, nobody wants to see Shia LaBeouf standing on their lawn at 2am politely refusing to leave several times. Life's just too precious for that.