Police responded to a report of a 'domestic dispute' at Ohio governor candidate's home in 2019

In 2019, police responded to a report of a “domestic dispute” at the home of Dr. Amy Acton, then director of the Ohio Department of Health who is now running for governor as a Democrat.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In August 2019, police in Bexley, Ohio, responded to a report of a “domestic dispute” at the home of Dr. Amy Acton.

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Acton — then the director of the state’s Department of Health, now a Democratic candidate for governor — pulled a mirror off the wall, “shattering the glass” when she “became upset” because she felt her husband “was antagonizing her,” according to a police report. She told officers she had been drinking, had taken an unknown amount of prescription drugs and was about to drive away in her car before her husband, who also told police he had been drinking, talked her out of it, the report stated.

A medic dispatched to check on Acton recommended that she go to the hospital, but Acton “refused,” according to the police report. Police determined that there was no evidence of physical violence between Acton and her husband, only a “verbal argument over her extended work hours.”