Sheen jailed for domestic violence

Actor Charlie Sheen, star of the hit comedy television series Two and a Half Men, was arrested and jailed on Friday on domestic violence charges in the Colorado ski resort city of Aspen, police said.

Sheen, 44, was booked on felony charges of second-degree assault and menacing, and a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief, all of which were "coupled with a domestic violence component," the Apsen police said in a statement.

The statement said Sheen would remain held without bond until his first court appearance in Pitkin County, Colorado, though no date for that proceeding was immediately set.

Police did not identify the person whom Sheen was accused of assaulting. But the celebrity news website Radar Online reported that the actor's arrest came after he shoved his wife, Brooke Mueller, during a heated quarrel.

Sheen's Los Angeles-based spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, would neither confirm nor deny that report, but said the couple "were spending time over Christmas vacation" at a residence of Mueller's family in Aspen at the time of the arrest.

 

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