A former Nova Scotia MLA awaiting sentencing for fraud and breach of trust is facing more legal trouble.
Trevor Zinck was arrested for impaired driving in Dartmouth Wednesday evening.
Around 9 p.m., police received a call from a citizen who reported an impaired driver near the 600 block of Highway 7.
“Someone was concerned that this individual had too much to drink,” says Const. Pierre Bourdages of the Halifax Regional Police.
Police stopped a vehicle matching the description a half an hour later on Franklyn Court and took a 42-year-old man into custody.
“I can tell you it was following a traffic stop. Mr. Zinck was driving at the time,” says Bourdages.
Zinck is due to appear in court on Nov. 12 to face impaired driving charges.
His lawyer, Lyle Howe, says Zinck won't be doing any interviews on the arrest.
The arrest came a day after the sentencing hearing began for his part in the Nova Scotia spending scandal.
Zinck pleaded guilty in June to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust for accepting about $9,000 from the Speaker's Office to cover constituency expenses in 2008 and 2009, even though he didn't pay those he claimed were owed money, except for a partial amount to one group.
During his trial, prosecution witnesses testified that organizations that were supposed to receive donations through Zinck's office never received their cheques.
Zinck, who sat as an Independent after he was kicked out of the NDP caucus, initially refused to quit politics following his guilty plea, but resigned after the Speaker announced the legislature would be recalled to deal with his possible expulsion.
During his sentencing hearing this week, the court heard that Zinck had been grappling with gambling addiction alcoholism and a broken marriage.
Zinck is due back in court for sentencing on the fraud charges on Oct. 9.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Rick Grant and The Canadian Press
