 On April 6, 2018, Halifax Regional Police issued a missing persons' news release seeking the public’s help in locating the 47-year-old Zinck, who at that time had reportedly last been seen approximately one month prior in the Parkstone Road area of Dartmouth.Later that same day police announced that they had located the former MLA but offered no further details regarding his disappearance.Zinck had been reported missing to police by an unknown party two days prior.