An Akron police officer resigned in February amid three separate internal investigations, ending a 14-month tenure marked by violent incidents caught on video, outbursts against colleagues and bystanders and repeated policy violations, according to documents obtained by Signal Akron.
Officer Samuel Putnam’s resignation came five weeks after a woman — also an Akron police officer, identified in police reports as his fiancée — called 911 in the early hours of Jan. 19. Putnam, she said, was drunk and behind the wheel of his pickup truck in their driveway, ramming the car she was in as she tried to block him from leaving amid a heated argument.
She was trying to keep Putnam from driving drunk and was afraid for her safety, the incident report said…