LOS ANGELES — Actor Charlie Sheen’s stolen Mercedes was found overturned about 100 metres down a cliff near his Sherman Oaks home early Friday, but there’s no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.
Police got an emergency call around 4 a.m. from an OnStar-style alert system that calls emergency officials when there is a problem with the vehicle that may require assistance, Officer Wendy Reyes said.
At about the same time, Sheen called police to say his four-door Mercedes-Benz had been stolen, Officer Bruce Borihanh said.
Police and firefighters found the car down a cliff, upside-down in the brushy ravine.
They searched the area on foot and with an infrared-equipped helicopter but found nobody in or around the car, Borihanh said.
Sheen was not believed to have been in the car because he would have been badly injured in the accident and “I don’t know how he would have gotten back up” the cliff, Borihanh said.
“It’s being treated as an auto theft investigation,” he said.
Calls to Sheen’s publicists seeking comment were not immediately returned.
A call to an attorney for his wife, Brooke Sheen, also was not immediately returned.