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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Yeah, I know, I know. That's what I get for skimming an article.

By thefool2u

Sounds like it could be a possible insurance job -- he probably needs money to pay his lawyer and the court costs. Oh well .... all he has to do is one or two and a half episodes of that show and he can buy a new car. An American Car like a Ford might be a good choice Charlie.

By jaguar02

Charile's life would be better off if his crack head wife were in the car , you can fill in the blanks. Charlie is like any other man looking for love in all the wrong places.....Hope he ditches this bimbo for good and chooses a mature intelligent woman for his next hook up.

By Anonymous

and Charlie didn't do it, and is still alive? DAMN!

GEE, I was thinking the same thing about you and everyone with your mentality. Can you spell your name correctly? M O R O N

By jokesl3

Obama did it.

By frederick

I understand Denise is really upset he wasn't in it.

By Jeffitems

How interesting that someone noticed the SUV in total darkness in a ravene at 4 a.m. The article doesn't say when it was reported stolen. Perhaps there was a previous collision with impairment involved that prompted the driver to get rid of the vehicle before the stolen report surfaced. Just a thought.

By outdrsman

Are you sure that was'nt a Toyota that blasted over the cliff??

By mobb67123

How in gods name can you possibly find a way to throw
racism into this story about Charlie Sheen's car down a damn ditch? Freakin IDIOT!

By ahcrod

People, get over yourselves.

By STEVE STEVENS

good story, Charlie, think anyone will believe it???

By garyrjas

You people are idiots, the car had the keys in it. Even if they aren't there now, now ignition punched, means a key was used. People steal cars all the time in LA (duh).

By Groucho

WHY IS THIS NEWS????

By Digi

Um...................why is this so important? I mean really? Who cares, I only looked at this article cause I was misintrigued under the assumption fo the link that he was in it. SO the doofus was wasted, forgot to put it in park and it rolled down the hill...........case solved.

By REBELX1

Was Sheen seen down the ravine at the scene?
Maybe he had driven home intoxicated and had forgotten to remove the keys and close the garage door- so Brooke drove the vehicle down the ravine. [shrugs]

By Matthew

We have a mercedes and 2 GM vehicles. mercedes version of onstar which is called teleaid is NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like Onstar. Onstar does SOO much more and is SOO MUCH better. Its the last mercedes Ill own. They are so over rated!

By Dee

If that is true, you are right. I have crack-heads!

By ron

i leave the keys in my car in my driveway all the time. you want to borrow my car and you're sober, no problem. try to steal it, i'll shoot the tires out and you'll look like you were in an accident when the police shoe up. and if you want to know where i live. rural america

By tom

I'm thinking maybe he stopped to wiz, and forgot to put it in park, and away it went. This kind of stuff happens to Charlie.

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