Neighbor held in attack on Charlie Sheen

Authorities arrested Charlie Sheen’s neighbor last week on suspicion of breaking into the actor’s Malibu home and assaulting him.

Deputies arrived at the 6000 block of Cavalleri Road around 1 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a call about a battery, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. When deputies arrived, they found that the “Two and a Half Men” actor was the victim of an alleged assault and break-in.

The department identified the suspect as Electra Schrock and arrested her on suspicion of assaulting Sheen with a deadly weapon, as well as residential burglary. She was expected to bearraignedattheVanNuys courthouse on Friday. Public records reviewed by The Times showed that she has also been a resident of Malibu with an apartment on the same street as Sheen. Authorities did not release a possible motive in the alleged attack.

Earlier this year, Schrock pleaded no contest to misdemeanor elder abuse. Representatives for Sheen didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

Fire and paramedics responded to Sheen’s home Wednesday afternoon, but no one was hospitalized, the Los Angeles County Fire Dept. said.

Sheen himself has been the subject of several assault arrests, including an incident in 1996 when he was charged with attacking then-girlfriend Brittany Ashland at his home. Sheen pleaded no contest and was placed on two years’ probation.

On Christmas Day in 2009, he was arrested in Aspen, Colo., after a domestic violence incident involving former wife Brooke Mueller. The next year, as a part of a plea deal, Sheen pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.

And in 2015, Scottine Ross, Sheen’s ex-fiancee, sued the actor, alleging assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress for failing to disclose he was HIV-positive and placing her at risk. She accused the actor of abusing her physically and emotionally while he used drugs and alcohol, as well as negligently exposing her to HIV after he was infected. Ross requested in 2018 that the case be dismissed.

Last year, Sheen settled a separatelawsuitfor$120,000, in which another former girlfriend alleged that he had lied to her about his HIVpositive status and exposed her to the virus.

Sheen has struggled with substance abuse, which temporarily derailed his career after “Two and a Half Men” co-creator Chuck Lorre fired him. Lawsuits, 100 episodes of “Anger Management,” an HIV-positive diagnosis and sobriety followed.

In April, Sheen was reportedly cast in a new HBO show by Lorre that would mark a reunion of the pair more than a decade after Sheen’s bitter departure from the sitcom.

After his firing in 2011, Sheen sued Lorre and Warner Bros. for wrongful termination and went on an improvised national tour he dubbed “My Violent Torpedo of Truth / Defeat Is Not an Option,” where he bragged about his drunken, party-filled lifestyle and occasionally mocked his old employer.