LAPD raids Charlie Sheen's mansion after receiving tip that actor owned guns, ammo

BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF

LOS ANGELES - Cops raided Charlie Sheen's gated mansion Thursday night after hearing the loose cannon had firearms that violated his estranged wife's restraining order.

"Crazy, crazy, crazy. It's crazy here," a source inside the house told the Daily News shortly after multiple cruisers from the Los Angels Police Department arrived.

A police spokeswoman said detectives were investigating a tip that Sheen owned guns and ammunition. They began searching his palatial estate shortly after 8 p.m. Pacific time. A police official tells The Associated Press that officers retrieved one weapon, an antique gun.

Sheen later tweeted the LAPD were AWESOME. Absolute pros! they can protect and serve this Warlock anytime!!!

Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller got a temporary restraining order March 1 after claiming Sheen recently punched her and threatened to send her decapitated head to her mother in a box.

"All good here on the homefront. All reports are false," Sheen tweeted after rumors spread that police were looking for drugs and wanted to place him on a psych hold. "I'll explain more very soon."

Inexplicably, lawyers for Sheen and Mueller said late Thursday that the couple reached an agreement that settles custody issues and will end their pursuit of the restraining order, The Associated Press reported.

A hearing had been scheduled for March 22.

Earlier in the day, Sheen filed a $100 million suit against his former bosses on "Two and a Half Men."

On page after page, Sheen claims show creator Chuck Lorre humiliated, harassed and disparaged him for years, wanted him punished and made him the scapegoat in a diabolical plan to shut down TV's top-rated sitcom.

He says Warner Bros. decided to "placate" Lorre's "massive ego and selfish demands" because he runs two other sitcoms for the studio: "The Big Bang Theory" and "Mike and Molly."

"Lorre is the proverbial '800-pound gorilla,' " the lawsuit says in language only slightly less colorful than Sheen's insult-filled on-air rants against his enemies.

"Lorre's inflated ego, laziness and ill-will toward Mr. Sheen and his perceived lifestyle is in direct derogation of Mr. Sheen's rights."

The lawsuit claims Sheen was clean, sober and ready to return to work Feb. 14, but Lorre "unilaterally" decided not to write scripts in violation of the star's $2 million-per-episode contract.

Sheen, 45, was fired from the hit show Monday, capping a tumultuous run that featured sex-and-drug benders, attacks against his TV bosses, and the launch of a Twitter feed that created a loony lexicon of catchphrases like "tiger blood" and "Winning!"

Lorre's lawyer dismissed Sheen's scenario.

"The allegations in the complaint against Mr. Lorre are as recklessly false and unwarranted as Mr. Sheen's rantings to the media. These accusations are simply imaginary," said Howard Weitzman. "Chuck Lorre's concern has been and continues to be about Mr. Sheen's health."

With The Associated Press

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