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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 then later, when she was arrested at gunpoint at her Rockcliffe Park home, of assaulting and threatening three city police officers while holding kitchen knives.

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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. In the alleged assaults, police say she used a lit cigarette as a weapon against a woman, and then a hand-held fan on another woman during the same incident.

Though Sensenberger was charged in 2014, she skipped out on her first court appearance and never showed up at Elgin Street police headquarters for fingerprinting.

The court ordered a warrant for her arrest, and she would not get handcuffed and hauled to jail until Feb. 22. That was the day that paramedics were called to her Rockcliffe Park home for a medical emergency for her 72-year-old husband.