Penn's Car, Guns Stolen
Apr 10, 1:02 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It was lunchtime on a busy Berkeley street when a thief made off with a 16-year-old Buick with two guns — a loaded 9 mm Glock handgun and an unloaded .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver — inside.
The victim? Big screen bad boy Sean Penn.
The three-time Academy Award nominee was eating lunch with his assistant at Venus restaurant about 1 p.m. Tuesday when someone stole the black 1987 Buick Grand National, which was parked on the same block as the restaurant.
"It's always a concern for us when we have any knowledge that someone has loaded guns, particularly if they're stolen," said Berkeley police officer Mary Kusmiss, who added Penn has a concealed weapons permit to carry the guns.
The car had not been recovered by early Thursday, she said.
"It's unusual to have a car stolen in broad daylight," Kusmiss said. "He parked it directly in front of the Citibank in a metered stall. ... It was a beautiful day and there was a lot of pedestrian traffic. It's just a bustling area there."
Kusmiss said Penn went inside the bank to ask if anyone noticed his car being stolen, but no one reported seeing anything. Police will get copies of surveillance photos from the automated teller machine outside, Kusmiss said.
Coincidentally, Kusmiss said, the Berkeley police officer who took Penn's report is no stranger to celebrity. He's a martial arts expert who's appeared in several Bruce Lee films.
Penn, 42, lives in Marin County with his wife, actress Robin Wright Penn, and their two children. Penn's publicist said Thursday she had not yet spoken to her client about the incident.
Penn is expected to begin shooting a new film called "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" in Oakland next month.
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