Car Owned by Charlie Sheen Plunges Over Cliff

By PopEater Staff Posted Feb 5th 2010 11:06AM

A Mercedes four-door vehicle belonging to Charlie Sheen was found crashed in a ravine near his Sherman Oaks home Friday morning and police are treating it as an auto theft. The car was empty and it's unclear if it was pushed or driven off the side of the road.

Footage from KTLA shows the car upside-down and several hundred feet down a brush-covered ravine. Police and fire crews found the vehicle badly damaged. Authorities searched the area on foot and by helicopter but found no one around and no evidence that anybody was in the car when it went over the edge.

Authorities told the local NBC affiliate that it's possible someone pushed the car off the cliff.

Bruce Borihanh of the Los Angeles police told reporters that officers got a 911 report at around 4 a.m. that a car was seen down a cliff off Mulholland Drive.

Sheen is said to have parked the luxury car in his driveway around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. TMZ is reporting that around 4 a.m., he received a call from a remote diagnostics company (like OnStar). They alerted him that the car's airbags had been deployed. At that, Sheen noticed the car wasn't in front of his house anymore and called police.

Chris Jacobs of 'The Insider' called Sheen for updates after news of the accident broke. Jacobs shared Sheen's exclusive info in a video blog for PopEater. Watch the video

Jacobs explains, "The last Charlie had seen, he left his car in the driveway. So he went out there and checked it out, and sure enough, his car was gone."

"Adding a little levity to the situation," Jacobs continues, "he told me it was nice for the cops to come to his house - and he didn't have to leave with them."

The LAPD so far has no suspects in the theft and are said to be searching for possible surveillance video of Sheen's gated community.

A law enforcement source told the LA Times that based on a preliminary investigation, Sheen's car may have been left in an open garage with the keys inside.

Nothing else from the home was stolen, police say.

The 'Two and a Half Men' star is expected to be charged any day now with felony menacing and misdemeanor assault over a Christmas Day incident where he allegedly assaulted his wife Brooke Mueller.

He'll appear in court on Monday for an arraignment, but is not expected to enter a plea at this time. At the hearing, the judge will also rule on the protective order that keeps the actor from seeing Mueller -- something the couple both reportedly want changed.

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Friday 05 February

By G

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Weird. Those cars have electronic keys. Don't think you can start the car without them.

By stephensg351

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can u not fn read?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By cannotbelievethis

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uh G - they said the keys were left in the car

By ash

"A law enforcement source told the LA Times that based on a preliminary investigation, Sheen's car may have been left in an open garage with the keys inside."

By cgm

Steve

Did you take your meds this morning?

maybe i am tired of uniformed wholes spoutting off like they have a clue when they are to lazy to even read the fn article f-off using your unitial t hide like some coward!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is what killing our country uniformed a holes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Ron

Guess Steve DOES have a problem. He failed to read.
A law enforcement source told the LA Times that based on a preliminary investigation, Sheen's car may have been left in an open garage with the keys inside.

Where does it state in the sentence that the keys were indeed inside the car? It says the car MAY have been left in an open garage with the keys in it. The words MAY HAVE only mean an assumption.

By Jess

I was thinking the same thing.. Dang, Steve.. It's not that serious. Calm down..

By Kay

..........was SCENE down a cliff.........? How about was SEEN down a cliff....?

By garth voigt

How about 'Sheen' down a cliff?

By Gina

They must have corrected the errors, because I re-read the entire article and didn't find them. Maybe I am as dumb as the writers are. Lol.

By Dee

Kay you are right about reading throughly. Some people need to get a life. Sheen and other stars feed off of all this buzz.

By P. Beck

To Popeater Staff...please learn English! The vehicle was not "scene down a cliff...." It was "seen down a cliff...."

By geetrls

life is too short--relax -- not all can be as perfect an English major as you...

By litamoran

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geetrls - You say, "life is too short--relax -- not all can be as perfect an English major as you..." These people make their living by writing. It's not too much to ask that they know how to write properly or, at the very least, know how to use a spell check. I hope you do your job better than they do theirs. Then again, how difficult is it to salt fries and clean the shake machine, over-achiever?

By NucularJulery

How's "The Sheen's scene was seen in a scenic viceenity"?

By Taz

Litoraman...spell check would not catch that seen was supposed to be the word used in the article vs the word scene. As long as it is spelled correctly, spell check is not going to flag it...

By TONY

CGM I HAVENT LAUGHED THAT HARD ALL MORNING THANKS

By Alonzo

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SUV plummets into ravine and is abandoned? Merely business as usual for this Sheen freak.

By Garth Voigt

Was he in it?

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