Amy Acton faces new scrutiny over 2019 police call — ‘been drinking,’ ‘throwing things and breaking glass’
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton is facing new scrutiny over a 2019 police call to her house as new reporting shows her daughter called police, telling a dispatcher Acton had “been drinking” and “throwing things and breaking glass.”
The Ohio Press Network, citing Bexley police records it obtained, reported that Acton’s adult daughter called police in August 2019.
She reportedly told the dispatcher that her “step dad and mom are fighting and mom has been drinking and throwing things and breaking glass.” She added that she had left the house and was heading to her father’s, OPN reported.
NBC News first reported the August 2019 call, and Laura Loomer first published new details about it. Neither Acton’s nor Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaigns responded to OPN’s questions about the new details.
The real story here isn’t just about Acton, it’s also about the failure of Ohio’s mainstream press. Imagine if there were a Republican with multiple family-placed 911 calls for domestic disturbances on the candidate, across multiple different spouses, involving drinking, drugs, &… https://t.co/fDYVIXxVIb
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 14, 2026
The Acton campaign has previously tried to downplay the episode. In late June, the campaign fact-checked a statement purportedly from a super PAC.
“There was absolutely no evidence that Dr. Acton was intoxicated,” the campaign said in its fact check. “Her husband is on record stating she had only one drink.”
The call has also raised questions about Acton’s 2026 running mate David Pepper’s defense of the call in a previous interview with News 5 Cleveland.
“I think someone called because they believed that Dr. Acton was under threat,” Pepper told Morgan Trau, who is also tied to the left-leaning Ohio Capital Journal.
It was actually the police’s second call to Acton’s house.
As Ohio.News exclusively reported, at 12:20 a.m. on June 16, 2013, Bexley police were dispatched to a home on Pleasant Ridge regarding a domestic disturbance. While they were diverted en route, a Capital University Police officer providing backup responded to the home and relayed the information to Bexley police.
According to a police report, Acton’s 16-year-old daughter returned home from a party intoxicated. Acton notified the girl’s father — her ex-husband, Douglas Beech — who later arrived at Acton’s home.
The daughter “apparently did not like this and thought her parents were going to get into some type of altercation,” according to a police report. “Both parents said they were fine and there was no altercation whatsoever.”
Acton was married to Beech, a psychiatrist, from 1989 until their divorce in 2008.
