Retired senator’s wife faces new legal trouble

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 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-yearold 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, 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 break-and-enter thieves made off with a collection of 28 guns, including old rifles and four handguns, from her home.

None of the allegations against Sensenberger or the accused thief has been proven in court.