‘Two and a Half Men’ star arrested on domestic violence charges
- Charlie Sheen spent the better part of
Christmas Day in a Colorado jail cell after being arrested on domestic
violence allegations.
The
44-year-old actor was taken into custody Friday morning by officers
responding to a 911 call from a house in this ski resort town about 200
miles west of Denver.An ambulance went to the house, but the accuser was not taken to the hospital.
Sheen, the star of CBS' "Two and a Half Men,"
was taken to the Pitkin County jail and booked for investigation of
second-degree assault and menacing, both felonies, along with criminal
mischief, a misdemeanor, Aspen police spokeswoman Stephanie Dasaro said.
He
was released in the late afternoon after posting $8,500 bond and being
advised by a county judge on the conditions of his release, she said.
Dasaro
declined to name Sheen's accuser, citing a department policy
prohibiting the identification of potential victims in domestic
violence cases.
Aspen
attorney Richard Cummins said late Friday that he was representing
Sheen in the case. He declined to name Sheen's accuser or discuss
details, but he cautioned against any rush to judgment.
"I
think at the end of the day it will be much ado about nothing," Cummins
told The Associated Press. "I don't think there's any criminality about
what went on."
Cummins said a court date was set for Feb. 8. "That may be to determine whether a case goes forward or not," he said.
Sheen's publicist Stan Rosenfield also warned against making assumptions.
"It would benefit everyone not to jump to any conclusion," he said.Sheen
is the son of actor Martin Sheen and brother of actor-director Emilio
Estevez. He is married to Brooke Mueller Sheen, a real estate nvestor who gave birth to the couple's first
children, twin boys, in March. They married in May 2008 following
Sheen's bitter divorce and custody battle with actress Denise Richards.
The
star of "Platoon," "Wall Street" and the "Hot Shots!" movies has had
run-ins with the law before. In December 1996, he was arrested and
charged with attacking a girlfriend at his Southern California home. He
later pleaded no contest and was placed on two years' probation.
In
1998, his father turned him in for violating his parole after a cocaine
overdose sent him to the hospital. He was later ordered to undergo a
rehabilitation program.