A high-ranking Metropolitan Police Department officer made good on his threat to file a whistleblower suit over a demotion he says happened because he blamed MPD leadership for authorizing a motorcade last year for Charlie Sheen.

The AP reports that a former D.C. police commander plans to sue the city claiming he was demoted for saying that a police escort last year for Charlie Sheen was a routine operation.

Chief Cathy Lanier’s on the war path. In addition to threatening to fire several police officers involved in a recent incident in Columbia Heights, Lanier has handed Commander Hilton Burton — who sharply criticized Lanier during a Council hearing on the Charlie Sheen police escort fiasco — a demotion.

Yesterday, the District’s Office of the Inspector General has wrapped up its report on the whole Charlie Sheen escort brouhaha, concluding that the police officers involved in the escort didn’t do anything wrong.

Well, now this is just getting plain embarrassing for the Metropolitan Police Department. Despite the fact that the department’s chief, Cathy Lanier, said on Friday that she was “100 percent confident the proper procedure was not followed for a reimbursable detail,” the Examiner’s Freeman Klopott reports that the New York Rangers received similar treatment on Saturday as they traveled to the Verizon Center for a playoff game against the Capitals.

This morning, Martin asked: if Charlie Sheen could get a police escort from Dulles International Airport to DAR Constitution Hall, why couldn’t he? Well, maybe if he ponied up $445, he could find out.

We had hoped that Charlie Sheen’s brief visit to the District could be quickly forgotten; apparently it won’t be.

No, DCist didn’t send a reporter to the Charlie Sheen “comedy” show last night at DAR Constitution Hall. (Truth be told, I’m far too fond of any of our contributors to have any of them to spend a perfectly pleasant Tuesday evening reporting on a train wreck of such epic proportions.) And, honestly, it was clear from the outset that actually attending the show was going to prove wholly unnecessary to those interested in what verbal diarrhea Sheen would produce — after all, every other media outlet in town was practically falling over themselves to document this vital piece of American history.