Patrick Brazeau to make Tuesday afternoon court appearance after latest arrest

Suspended Senator Patrick Brazeau was arrested, again, and spent Monday night in jail.

According to the Ottawa Citizen, police in Gatineau, found an impaired Brazeau in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle on Monday afternoon.

They arrested him for being impaired while in control of a vehicle and for operating a vehicle “while having an alcohol level of more than 80 milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood.”

He also faces a charge of breach of conditions for a knife found in his car.

"Police said Brazeau had given a previous undertaking not to possess any weapon capable of cutting," notes the report.

"Because police believed he had broken a previous undertaking, they asked a justice of the peace to authorize them to keep him in jail overnight."

Brazeau is expected to make a court appearance on Tuesday afternoon.

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This is the just latest disturbing development in the life of the senator once highly touted by the Stephen Harper Conservatives.

Over the past year, Brazeau, 39, has faced — and continues to face — a series of personal battles.

In February 2013, he was charged with both assault and sexual assault for an incident at his home. According to court records publicized in the Globe and Mail, the victim alleges that an argument about Aboriginal issues escalated into violence.

Brazeau will stand trial for that case in March 2015.

In April of this year, he was arrested at a private residence in Gatineau following a domestic disturbance call. He was officially charged with two charges of assault, possession of cocaine, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and breaching previous release conditions.

He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released on bail on the condition that he undergo treatment to deal with an alcohol and drug problem at a rehabilitation facility in Quebec.

And, of course, the RCMP have also charged Brazeau with breach of trust and fraud for alleged inappropriate senate expense claims on taxpayer-funded housing allowances.

None of the charges have been proven in a court of law.

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Unfortunately, there have also been reports of Brazeau’s financial difficulties after being suspended from the Senate without pay because of his part in the senate expense scandal.

In February, CTV News reported that the bank was poised to repossess his home.

Earlier this year, we also learned that Brazeau had taken employment as a day manager at an Ottawa strip club.

His suspension from the Senate will last until at least after the next federal election.

His senate colleagues, however, could make a move to permanently remove him if he’s found guilty on any of the charges he’s faced with.

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