Threat charges for ex-senator’s wife
OTTAWA: 26-year-old accused of threatening police
OTTAWA— 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 assaulting and 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 a handheld fan on another woman.
She is now out on bail after her mother posted a $5,000 bond.
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 home for a medical emergency for her 72-year-old husband.
It’s alleged she was acting erratically and drunk, and paramedics called police for help. The police said when they arrived Sensenberger was holding kitchen knives in a threatening manner. They also 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.