Charlie Sheen, 44, the star of the television sitcom Two and a Half Men and of Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning Vietnam War drama Platoon (1986), reportedly had his Mercedes stolen early Friday (Feb. 5). Strangely, the car was found overturned hundreds of feet into a ravine near Sheen's Sherman Oaks home. According to police, there is no evidence anyone was in the car. The area was searched and infrared equipment was employed, but nobody was found in the area.
At about 4 a.m., Sheen had called police to report his car had been stolen. At about the same time, an emergency call came through from the car's OnStar-style alert system that indicates problems with a vehicle. According to police, Sheen couldn't have been in the car as it went down the ravine for he would have been badly injured in the accident and couldn't have come back up the cliff.
On Christmas Day '09, Sheen was arrested on a domestic violence charge in Aspen. He was accused of pinning his wife on a bed while holding a knife to her throat. He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday. His wife, Brooke Sheen, says she wants to reconcile.
Among Charlie Sheen's other film credits are Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), Hot Shots! (1991), and The Three Musketeers (1993). Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, in which Sheen has a role, will hit theaters in April.