In a 2009 speech at Oxford University, according to The Daily Mail, Sheen told the audience that he had been arrested 66 times throughout his life. In the years since, the number has gone up. As recently as January 2020, reports CNN, Sheen was arrested when he participated in a climate protest organized by Jane Fonda in Washington D.C. Sheen and 146 others were charged with “crowding, obstructing or incommoding.”

However, Sheen is neither violent, nor prone to theft, nor a fan of getting behind the wheel while drunk, nor any of the other things you may think of when considering how and why someone could come to be arrested dozens of times. Instead, he’s produced his rap sheet through activities associated with his conscience.

At this point it bears noting that, in the United States at least, protesting isn’t itself a crime (usually). However, other activities that protesters sometimes engage in are crimes — trespassing, violating curfews, and so on. For example, in 1987, as The Associated Press reported at the time, Sheen and his associates were protesting nuclear proliferation in Nevada and were busted for trespassing and blocking a road. Sheen’s other arrests have been of a similar nature: trespassing, the catch-all crime of “disorderly conduct,” and others, all from protesting.