CHARLIE SHEEN BACK IN DRUG REHABILITATION

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Actor Charlie Sheen checked back into a drug
rehabilitation center Sunday, one day after leaving it and being picked up
by sheriff's deputies, who took him to a hospital, local broadcasters
reported.

The 32-year-old actor, star of films like ``Platoon'' and ``Wall Street,''
first checked into the rehabilitation center in the secluded Malibu hills
outside Los Angeles Friday after a brief stay at another hospital, to which
he was admitted Thursday for a drug overdose.

Sheriff's deputies were called by personnel of the center after Sheen left
it early Saturday morning in a black limousine he had summoned. Deputies
tracked down the limousine and found a ``heavily medicated'' Sheen inside.

He was taken to Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, according to
Sheriff's Deputy Bob Killeen. A spokeswoman for the hospital said he had
not been admitted.

Radio and television stations reported that Sheen later returned to the
drug rehabilitation center. A spokesman for the actor could not be reached
Sunday.

It was unknown what drug Sheen had taken, but he was in the Robles Medical
Center in Thousand Oaks on Thursday complaining of tingling in his hands
and trouble walking.

In a news conference that day his father, actor Martin Sheen, acknowledged
the overdose and said: ``We are in the stages right now of recovery. It is
my hope that he will accept his recovery.''

The younger Sheen was given a one-year suspended sentence last June after
pleading no contest to a charge of battery in an attack on a girlfriend. He
was also ordered to pay a fine and perform 300 hours of community service.

During a hearing in the case, Gloria Allred, attorney for the girlfriend,
said Sheen was drunk at the time of the alleged battery.

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski