Ex-senator’s wife accused of threats to police
Allegedly broke alcohol ban due to airplane disturbance
O T TAWA • Maygan Sensenberger is in trouble with the law again.
The 26-year-old actress and wife of retired senator Rod Zimmer has been accused of attacking two people at an Ottawa medical clinic with a lit cigarette and a hand-held fan and — months later — of threatening three police officers while holding kitchen knives.
Sensenberger was represented by a lawyer and did not appear in court Thursday on the criminal charges that date back to an alleged August 2014 disturbance at a medical clinic. Police alleged she used a lit cigarette as a weapon against a woman, and then used a hand-held fan on another woman.
Although Sensenberger was charged in 2014, she skipped out on her first court appearance and never showed up at police headquarters for fingerprinting.
The court ordered a warrant for her arrest, but she would not get handcuffed and hauled to jail until Feb. 22. That was the day paramedics were called to her Rockcliffe Park home for a medical emergency for her 72-year-old husband.
It’s alleged she was acting erratically and drunk, and paramedics called po- lice for help. The police said when they arrived, Sensenberger was holding kitchen knives in a threatening manner. They charged her with uttering threats of bodily harm.
They charged her with one last criminal count — mischief. In this count, the Ottawa police alleged that Sensenberger wilfully damaged the window of a police cruiser during her arrest. The police also ran her name only to find out that she was wanted on a bench warrant for skipping out on a court date, and a police appointment for fingerprinting last fall.
She is now out on bail after her mother posted a $5,000 bond.
Sensenberger was also charged with a breach of conditions related to her suspended sentence a few years ago for causing a disturbance on an airplane. It was the condition to not drink alcohol.
Sensenberger was in the news last week when breakand-enter thieves made off with a collection of 28 guns, including old rifles and four handguns, from her home. Nobody was home at the time and police made arrests and recovered the stolen guns the next day.
One of the accused had worked for the former Liberal senator until a few weeks ago. Michael Larocque, 34, did odd jobs for the ex-senator, including sometimes chauffeuring him around town.
He’s charged with break and enter and possession of stolen goods.
None of the allegations against Sensenberger or the accused thief has been proven in court.