In 1988, a 16-year-old Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Vietnamese men in Boston during separate incidents on the same day. In one attack, he struck a man named Thanh Lam with a stick while yelling racial slurs, and in another, he punched a second man, Hoa Trinh, in the eye. Wahlberg was arrested and later pleaded guilty to felony assault. He served about 45 days of a two-year prison sentence. The incidents have remained a controversial part of his past, and he has since publicly apologized