Season 4, Week 14, of the A&E Unscripted Hit LEO Series
Here’s what you missed on Live PD this week/weekend which included a bonus wraparound, two-hour episode on Wednesday night, January 15, as part of the seemingly never-ending promotion for the spin-off America’s Top Dog.
Live PD is the ratings-winning, three-hour law enforcement ride-along show that ordinarily airs fresh episodes on Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time on the A&E television network.
Live PD producers and videographers embed in real time with officers and deputies on patrol from eight different U.S. police departments and sheriff’s offices usually on Friday night and Saturday night.
Given its often intense action, unpredictability, danger, plus quirky and humorous, and sometimes mundane, interactions between cops and citizens, Live PD is perhaps the closest thing that even approaches appointment TV anymore in the fragmented entertainment space. (Live PD has also spawned several spin-offs.)
A Live PD recap with some the pithiest quotes from the participants follows below.
But first, the good idea/bad idea of the week: Is it a good idea or bad idea to ignore officers’ warnings to get on the ground or get tased?
Live Plus Previously Recorded Incidents
With usually about 50 live feeds coming into the studio, most segments are broadcast on a reported five- to 20-minute tape delay. When nothing of interest is happening in real time, pretaped segments air, which Live PD describes as incidents that happened “earlier.”
For viewers, Live PD is addicting, which perhaps is an unfortunate choice of words in this context. While millions of Americans experiment — and more than experiment — with drugs when younger, Live PD reveals a self-destructive cohort hooked on narcotics (and/or booze) well into middle age and beyond.
Many thanks to Twitter users @TLivepd, @LivePDFans, and @LivePDMusings along with several other Twitter feeds, for the embedded clips and images.
Note: Embedded tweets do not equal or imply endorsement of their content.
As the Live PD disclaimer indicates, not all outcomes are known or final, and criminal charges, if any, may have been reduced, dismissed, or never filed.
When alleged criminal activities are depicted on Live PD, all persons are presumed innocent unless convicted in a court of law.
Controlled Control Room Chaos
Don Cesareo, the founder and president of Live PD producer Big Fish Entertainment, told Deadline Hollywood the following:
“Live PD is one of most enjoyable shows to produce because it’s such a challenge. We do a lot of prep work in terms of the field, but really what happens is that you show up on a Friday night and settle into the control room and all of the camera feeds come up and the show starts and we don’t have a run down and have three hours of TV to create. The easiest way to describe it is like having eight live breaking stories at the exact same time, but you don’t know all of the details. There’s an energy and controlled chaos that works.”
According to Cesareo, “The show originated after he and his team came across police departments that were live tweeting patrols.”
Variety has more background from Cesareo:
“You could say Live PD was born out of necessity. Executives at Big Fish Entertainment, the production company behind it, realized that at a time when more TV viewers were moving to streaming services, a program that had to be watched live would be more compelling. The team noticed police departments across the U.S. ‘were providing these timely updates over the course of an evening’ to local residents via Twitter, says Dan Cesareo, who formed Big Fish. ‘We found it fascinating.’
“Getting things right took time — even after Live PD launched. Producers had to get access to police departments. Once they got on air, they had to learn to steel themselves against the temptation to jump from one feed to the next whenever a conflict or action appeared to be in the offing. ‘When you do something new that hasn’t been done before, there’s not a road map,’ says Cesareo. ‘It took us four to six months, probably, just to get comfortable with our own setup.’”
Rules or No Rules of the Road?
Many subjects who appear on the show in law enforcement interactions are covered with tattoos (as are the cops more often than not), love cigarettes, and often have warrants.
They often carry contraband on their person and/or in their vehicles, the latter which are often unregistered and/or uninsured. That’s why cops often begin an interaction by asking if there is anything illegal in the car.
Transporting contraband such as controlled substances plus no valid license/registration is usually an ill-advised combination as is contraband plus vehicle equipment malfunctions.
Alleged drug traffickers who fail to abide by routine traffic laws or, as noted, lack working vehicle running lights or other related equipment, can also wind up in big trouble following a probable cause search.
The first thing that officers usually say to a suspect in an adversarial encounter is “let me see your hands.”
Two Beers, Not My Pants, and Other Mantras
“I only had two beers” is a familiar motorist mantra when pulled over and asked about having anything to drink that evening.
Another mantra is “not that I know of” when cops question a subject as to whether there might be illegal drugs in a vehicle or even on their person. In the alternative, subjects also often claim that drugs “belong to a friend” or it’s “not my car.”
From time to time, they also claim that the pants that they are wearing in which cops find drugs belong to a friend.
Separately on the subject of wardrobe, males who appear on Live PD often don’t take the time to put on a shirt even when a cop shows up at their front door.
“Not my jacket” or “not my purse” are also familiar refrains. Sometimes “not my car” also is part of the cop-citizen dialogue.
Parenthetically, males and female drug users often tend to conceal their stash in their private parts, making for some awkward if not disgusting pat-downs.
In addition to the drug epidemic across across the country as well as alcoholism, the obesity epidemic is also frequently on display.
When a subject begins a sentence with “I’m going to be honest with you, officer,” or the equivalent, you can generally expect that things will quickly go sideways.
Some mouthy subjects argue themselves into an arrest (i.e., talking themselves into handcuffs) even when cops are about to let them go with minor infractions, citations, or just a warning.
Some suspects seem more concerned about smoking one last cigarette before jail than they are about going to jail.
Several of the cops, many of whom are impressively observant when they question subjects or investigate crime scenes, have become social media celebrities as a result of their participation in Live PD. Some of them may have a career in television media or politics after they retire from full-time law enforcement.
The Lingo
As an aside, officers across the country have a tendency to ungrammatically add the preposition “at” to the end of a sentence. I.e.: “Where do you live at?” or “Where is he/she at?”
Cops often address subjects as “bro,” “dude,” “bud,” “man,” “partner,” or “boss.” And instead asking subjects where they live, officers ask them where they “stay.”
They also try to reassure detainees that handcuffs come off as fast as they go on if a subject is cleared.
In a pat-down, because of the prevalence of needles used by drug abusers, for their own safety, cops always ask if the subject has “anything in your pockets that’s going to cut, stab, or poke me?”
When asking a subject about drugs or other contraband, an officer often advises that “honesty goes along way” in the context of possible reduced (or no) charges.
Expect the Unexpected
Traffic stops — the primary but not the only enforcement actions seen on Live PD — are often like a flea market. Viewers never know what the officers might find inside a vehicles after either a consensual search or a probable cause search pursuant to a K9 alert or for another legal justification.
Apart from drugs and weapons, among the weird items they often find include bottles of presumably clean urine used to circumvent a drug test. Sex toys also show up from time to time.
Moreover, as suggested above, no license, no registration, and no insurance consists of a trifecta in many of those stops. (A disproportionate number of pick-up trucks seem to have issues when stopped by law enforcement officers).
For law-abiding motorists sharing the road, the recurrence of non-insurance scenarios has to be disturbing.
Mismatched plates, expired (and/or doctored) temporary tags, and the like are also frequent infractions.
In addition to a cigarette fixation, you’ll also note that subjects typically clutch and/or use their phones at all times no matter what, even officers are trying to talk with them or or even when they’re getting cuffed.
Excessively tinted windows beyond what is legally allowed increasingly constitute a safety issue for officers in traffic stops.
Driver’s License Optional
Somehow in America, a valid driver’s license became an optional credential for many motorists. Driving with impunity while suspended has become a thing.
Motorists sometimes claim to have a valid driver’s license, but for some inexplicable reason, they aren’t carrying it with them. Or it was stolen.
Is it any wonder that the cops often ask the person behind the wheel if he or she has a drivers license on them?
Occasionally drivers will say that they have a picture of their license, registration, or other required documents on their phone rather than in their physical form.
Officers often give break to those who are driving illegally, however. Sometimes cops will allow the motorist to drive directly home or call another licensed driver to the scene to take over behind the wheel.
Judging by these traffic stops, driving while buzzed seems to be a growing, as it were, problem across the country. Weed laws vary significantly from state to state. Some jurisdictions have decriminalized possession of small amounts.
Some, but not all, of the subjects that police make contact with express excitement about being on Live PD (although occasionally they think they’re on Cops).
In switching quickly from sequence to sequence, and as you’ll see below, Live PD does not always provide an update of how cops resolved a particular encounter, if at all.
As alluded to above, K9s well trained in drug detecting and human tracking regularly assist cops in their investigations on Live PD. Note that because of changes in the laws of some states, K9s in certain jurisdictions no longer get weed-sniffing training.
This Week and Weekend on Live PD
If you’re wondering what happened on Live PD this past week, a recap/summary of Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night’s Live PD editions follows, along with some of the best quotes.
Host Dan “Let’s get in a break” Abrams — he of the puns and the double entendres — and regular studio analysts Tom Morris, Jr., and Tulsa PD Sgt. Sean “Sticks” Larkin provide studio commentary as usual.
Again, please understand that what is depicted on the show, and summarized below, including but not limited to any arrests, constitute mere allegations. Initial assessments or any observations made by cops or Live PD, or anyone on Twitter for that matter, may be incorrect and no endorsement here is meant or implied.
Live PD, Season 4, Episode 34, January 15, 2020
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officer Justin Hill and other officers look for subject who allegedly attacked gas station employee with scissors. Graphic: “Scissoring incident.” Cops question woman eating outside of fast-food restaurant who denies attacking anyone. She is trespassed from gas station, but no charges. Officer Hill: “…find her snacks and her gas somewhere else, but I doubt she got a car.”
- Pomona, Cal. — Officer Luis Jimenez responds to report of female in wheelchair stuck on train trucks, but no one found.
- Terre Haute, Ind. — Traffic stop; running stop sign. No license. Driver said he just got out of prison for armed robbery. Released with no charges.
- Lawrence, Ind. — Officers respond to grandmother-granddaughter dispute at motel. Situation apparently already resolved itself according to Officer Stuart Bishop.
- Nye County, Nev. — Lt. Eric Murphy respond to report of man running in and out of traffic. Subjec says his wife has gone missing. Lt. Murphy to subject: “I’m nice until you’re not nice to me.” Abrams: “Obviously, if that’s true, it is a heartbreaking story.” Subject released with no charges.
- Terre Haute, Ind. — Sgt. Adam Loudermilk and K9 Vader search for residential area for suspect who allegedly robbed convenience store. Trail is apparently cold; Sgt. Loudermilkk says suspect could have fled into a neighboring house or left in a car.
- Lawrence, Ind. — Officer Charlie Kingery makes traffic stop at convenience store/gas station. Front passenger foot bailed, and other officers and K9 search area residential area for him. K9 alert at fence; passenger surrenders. Cops check behind the fence for the possibility of a dumped handgun. Driver released with no charges.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop; car allegedly smells of weed according to Dep. Neil McSwain. Driver denies having any weed. Released with a warning; no charges.
- Pomona, Cal. — Officer Jimenez responds to disturbance at restaurant over salad dressing. Graphic: “Charged for ranch and thousand island.” Abrams: “Sometimes you gotta fight for your ranch dressing, because it’s good.” Graphic: Cooler ranch heads prevail.” Officer Jimenez mediates and obtains side order of ranch dressing for customer. Abrams: “Bust most importantly, his salad will now me dressed.”
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officer Hill respond to report of someone dancing in driveway of allegedly abandoned house. He speaks with woman in driveway who is not overly informative or cooperative. Abrams: “Seems there is a little confusion about what exactly what’s going on there. One thing I know for certain is dancing is not illegal unless you’re in the movie Footloose.” Turns out she was a renter at the property; no charges.
- Richland County, S.C. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “A lover’s quarrel got a bit out of hand.” Abrams: “They seemed so irritated at each other that getting arrested almost seems secondary.” Morris, Jr.: “And then once the two officers witness physical contact, all bets were off. They arrested both of them. End of episode (part one of two for the evening).
Live PD, Season 4, Episode 35, January 15, 2020
Officer Dan Rhodes of the Cocoa, Fla., PD and K9 Bear, the winners of America’s Top Dog, joins the studio trio for part 2 of this evening’s Live PD. Abrams: “It seems every time I start talking, Bear tries to outdo me. Hear that?”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop; tag light out and break light issue. Small amount of marijuana allegedly found. Female passenger working on scratch-off lottery tickets. Abrams: “So it seems like she’s still got some areas to scratch off there, so we’re gonna find out if she’s a winner because that would be the good news for her tonight.” Graphic: “Still trying to get lucky.” Deputies issue warning for stop, and tickets to driver and passenger for weed possession. Abrams: “Don’t know if the lottery winning are gonna pay for that marijuana ticket.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop; truck. Graphic: “Is that your pistol sticking out.” Driver had several weapons in truck; he was returning from gun range. Graphic: “Legal arsenal found.” Larkin: “He’s transporting all his firearms their proper way. He’s got them unloaded back in the locked portion away from him in the cab of the truck.”
- Pomona, Cal. — Officers respond to mother-daughter dispute involving cell phone and attendance at Bernie Sanders rally. Officers separate subjects for the night.
- Crime of the Week — Corona, Cal.
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to noise complaint about car in motel parking lot. Lt. Danny Brown spots open container and tells driver that “you reek of marijuana, man.” Pat down; drugs allegedly found. Lt. Brown says that driver will be charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of marijuana.
- Lawrence, Ind. — Officer Bishop spots man sleeping in parked car in parking let. Bishop tells man to call his wife and driver vehicle home.
- Berkeley Count, S.C. — Traffic stop on woman with two cats in car for two potential driving infractions. Released with warning.
- Wanted segment — Glendale, Ariz.
- Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop on vehicle parked outside convenience store in high-crime area. Gun found.
- Pomona, Cal. — Officers respond to report of collision between vehicle and pedestrian (the latter may be a bicyclist). Pedestrian already left scene, and may not be injured. Officer Jimenez interviews driver about incident; broken side mirror. Abrams: “The good news is rather than injury, we’re talking about damage to his vehicle.”
- Tulsa, Okla. — Traffic stop. One of the occupants allegedly admits to meth use. End of episode.
Live PD, Season 4, Episode 36, January 17, 2020
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputy Brooke Gentry responds to report of homeowner who allegedly assaulted mail carrier. Graphics: “Blowing the lid of the situation;” “asking for courtesy lid closing;” “promises to keep lid on it.” Dep. Gentry: “He needs a new mailbox.” Abrams: “Shoe he’s still getting charged with misdemeanor battery. I bet he doesn’t know that. He’s gonna find out soon enough…”
- Bradford County, Fla. — Deputy Hayley Flynn backs up animal control officer to serve papers relating to procedures for irate man and wife to get their dog back.
- Tulsa, Okla. — Officers assist car dealership to recover car that was found at residence. Tracking device was in car. Purchase apparently never went through.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop. Deputies allegedly smell marijuana. Car search. Meth allegedly found. Passenger arrested for possession with intent to distribute meth. Driver and other passenger released with no charges.
- Lawrence, Ind. — Traffic stop; Officer Charlie Kingery: “Really interesting artwork on the face.” Driver released with warning.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputies respond to report of alleged mother-daughter physical dispute and interview both parties. Abrams: “Tough situation for Cpl. [Corinthian] Green because he has two completely polar-opposite stories, and both very passionately telling their accounts.” Larkin: “We got to these domestics. You don’t have an independent witness. Neither person has an injury on them. There’s nothing on video, and they’re both pissed, they’re both mad. So you don’t want to leave there, let both sides down. But we just take information; we file a report, and hopefully they work it out themselves that night.” Morris, Jr.: “It’s tough when you have an adult child living in your house, and you can’t get along, and it ends up in this sort of incident. You really don’t have too many options automatically to kick them out.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies and K9 search on foot for subject who ran from Lt. Danny Brown. Subject still at large.
- Tallahassee, Fla. (pretaped segment) — “Police and a K9 attempted to track down a pair of men who fled following an alleged armed robbery.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies and FD respond to two vehicle accident. No serious injuries but FD has to cut open passenger door to free truck driver who is “mechanically entraped.” Cats apparently in truck as well. Driver to FD: “You’ve ruined my truck.”
- Lawrence, Ind. — Traffic stop; suspended license. Driver says he is traveling rather than driving. Graphic: “Possible sovereign citizen.” Officer Kingery to driver: “You have to have a license to travel or drive, or whatever you’d like to call it, behind the wheel of an automobile on the state road.” Abrams: “I just wonder who tells these people that this sort of double-talk works.” Morris, Jr.: “The Internet…and if they tow his car, though, he won’t be traveling anymore.” Abrams: “He’ll be traveling to the tow yard.” Driver cited for driving under suspension; vehicle towed.
- Terre Haute, Ind. — Officers respond to report of someone who allegedly passed out in drive-thru. Abrams: “Regardless of what happens here, it seems it’s a good thing she’s not driving right now, whatever come of it….so remember, she just said she was tired, and she very well may have just been.” Driver passes field sobriety testing and is released with no charges.
- Pomona, Cal. — Brief traffic stop; driver released.
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officers respond to apartment complex where tow truck driver says that car owner pulled gun on him. Graphic: “Report of brandishing firearm.” Conflicting stories; subject detained in hallway and insists it was self defense. Handgun found in apartment. Abrams: “The ultimate question here is did he brandish the gun. He’s saying the never actually took the gun out of the bag.” Morris, Jr.: “And brandishing can be a crime in and of itself, even if you’re legally in possession of a firearm, so it’s really a nuance here….as to which story is really gonna be the one that’s the truth.” Abrams: “It seems pretty clear they do not believe his account, but he’s pretty passionate about his defense there that it was not his fault, and it was the tow truck driver’s — if he does get arrested and charged, that certainly would be his defense.”
- Tallahassee, Fla. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “Police tried to track down a driver who bailed during a traffic stop.”
- Lawrence, Ind. — Traffic stop at apartment complex for potential infraction.
- Richland County, S.C. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “Something normally found in the kitchen cupboard turned out to be a recipe for trouble.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies respond to accident between four-wheeler (ATV) and pickup truck. ATV operator fled scene on foot. Truck driver not injured. According to Dep. Gentry, ATV is stolen. Abrams: “May have been stolen yesterday, and literally already spray painted and in an accident, so the person had to flee.” Larkin: “That’s a quick turnaround but…the owner of that ATV is going to be so happy to get that thing back that fast. Those things usually aren’t recovered very often.” Abrams: “They may not like the paint job.” Deputies later search abandoned building for suspect, and subsequently found a hat on road that may belong to suspect.
- Tulsa, Okla. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “On this show, we’ve seen people who are drunk, stoned, tripping, tweaking on everything from moonshine to mescaline to mushrooms, and then earlier in Tulsa, there was this.” [catnip allegedly used as “turkey dope.”] Larkin: “If catnip becomes illegal, we might just start some feline units…” Morris, Jr.: “I wonder what kind of effect it has on a human being. Do you, like, run in circles?…”
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies make contact with pedestrian supposedly using a knife and who was allegedly going through donation bin. Deputies search backpack. Subject released with no charges.
- Pomona, Cal. — Officer Megan Gonzalez makes contact with and questions pedestrian in alley.
- Crime of the Week — Nye County, Nev.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop; speeding. Teen driver.
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Traffic stop. Officer Hill interviews passenger. Hill to passenger: “Can’t just jump in a car with random people, Man.” Abrams: “Not a crime to make friends in a bar, get a ride.” Morris, Jr.: “With a stranger.” Abrams: “But at least no one fled here. Very often, we hear typically when someone’s fled, and [cops] say ‘who was the other guy?,’ [the subject] says ‘I don’t now; I just met him.'” Larkin: “Usually we hear the driver picks up the passenger they don’t know, and this [stop] kinda flip flops.” Officer Hill to passenger: “Don’t hang around people [that] make bad choices…your ad choice put you in a situation where you were forced to hang around with somebody who makes bad choices. So my advice is don’t jump back into the car with him.” Passenger walks home. Driver, whose license is suspended, passes field sobriety test, but needs to call someone to the scene with a valid license to drive vehicle home.
- Missing update — Cary, N.C.
- Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop; speeding.
- Lawrence, Ind. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “Officers were forced to perform double duty during a medical emergency.” [two ODs]
- Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop; swerving.
- Pomona, Cal. — Officers respond to report that traffic accident may have turned into a fight during info exchange. Officer Gonzalez gives both parties the option to make a citizen’s arrest.
- Pomona, Cal. — Officers respond to disturbance involving at least two pedestrians. Officer O’Mahony to subject: “Before I can let you go somewhere, I need you to show me that you can care for yourself.” End of episode.
Live PD, Season 4, Episode 37, January 18, 2020
- Terre Haute, Ind. — Officers respond to shots fired report in residential neighborhood. Subject detained in backyard. Abrams: “What was initially a report of shots fired, we now know that there was a guy who tried to break in to this house at gunpoint, took [the homeowner] , the victim there. They got into a scuffle, and the gun went off….a lot of the time, we get calls about a possible burglary in progress, and there’s nothing there. This is a there there..so if this is as we think it was, that guy you just saw there acted pretty heroically. He just fought off a guy trying to break into his house and then helm him down as shots are going off, until the police get there. Unbelievable!.” Summary from Officer Anthony Mazzon: “Everything’s under control. He’s being detained; he’s placed under arrest right now. Again, homeless man shows up. He wants to have money; it’s cold outside. He has a handgun and basically has an intention to commit a robbery. The homeowner opens the door. Recognizes the threat immediately. He hits the gun upward; the gun fires a round. He then tackles the suspect, takes him to the ground. Amidst that altercation, another round goes off. We’ve found two rounds in the ceiling in the front porch. There could be more. The homeowner holds him there until officers arrive on scene. Officers arrive on scene; they try to figure out who’s who. We don’t know who the homeowner is, who the suspect is, so our job is to separate everyone, make sure everyone is safe, and the scene is safe. Once that’s done, we disregarded the medics, because no one had any serious bodily injuries…We’ll have the detectives come out, and we’ll take him to jail.”
- Lawrence, Ind. — Capt. Tracey Cantrell spotted a car parked in a closed park after hours. Cantrell: “Oh yeah, the windows are fogged up.” Abrams: “So it seems we got a little paradise by the dashboard light situation going on there.” Couple released with no charges.
- Tulsa, Okla. — Officers respond to one-car accident. Driver allegedly initially fled the scene is detained. He had six misdemeanor traffic warrants according to Officer Joshua Hyman, who noted that “not really they worst thing ever but guess he determined it was bad enough to run.”
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officers respond to report of bicyclist allegedly screaming for ambulance at gas station. He may have fallen off bike.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputies respond to domestic dispute between boyfriend and girlfriend.
- Nye County, Nev. — Traffic stop; swerving. Possible diabetic incident. Abrams: “Well, now we know why [Deputy Brooke Gentry] immediately asked him about his sugar level because she has dealt with him before on this very issue.” EMS called to the scene.
- Pomona, Ca. — Officers serve warrant on alleged gang member in connection with gun possession. Subject taken into custody in traffic stop. Sgt. Mark Medellin: “So this is definitely a team effort. Not any one of us is gonna take credit for this on our task force. We all consider each arrest as an arrest for the entire team. That’s important that we emphasize that. We work together as a unit. Nobody’s trying to be a hotdogger out here by themselves. This is not how we operate.” Abrams: “It seems [the subject is] being pretty straightforward now, and the officers are responding to it by granting him a couple of requests.”
- Tulsa, Okla. — Officers respond to report of possible child abduction by relative. Officers enter home and make contact with homeowner. Abrams: “The good news is hopefully that those kids are okay just as he says they are, which is the most important thing here.” Summary by Officer Hyman: “Basically, the biological father of the kids was having an argument with another individual inside this apartment…the guy inside this apartment…the guy inside the apartment wouldn’t let son go. The two of them get into a tussle. Tussle ends up inside the apartment. They’re breaking stuff, putting holes in the walls, and the father grabs the kids and goes. So that’s kind of what we’re dealing with right now. The subject we got here was a witness to the whole thing. So now we’re just trying to locate the children, ensure they’re safe, and located the father of those kids to get the full story.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Lt. Neal Johnson questions man outside building. Pat down. Drugs allegedly found.
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officers respond to domestic dispute at residence. Couple asked to go to their separate rooms for the night. Abrams: “That’s some old-school policing right there, making sure everyone is okay.”
- Terre Haute, Ind. — Officers attempt to serve warrant for vehicle theft at residence. Homeowner says subject isn’t there and allows cops to search house.
- Lawrence, Ind. — Officers respond to shots fired in residential neighborhood and interact with neighbor. May not be gunshots after all. Officer Aaron Tate: “So as far as finding anything in here relevant to a shooting or guns fired, we’re not finding any shall casings; We talked to people that live in these residences…” Tate and other officers to check one more location, a nearby industrial area.
- Lawrence, Ind. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “In really bad weather, drivers will pull over to the side of the road, but usually not this side.”
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officers and EMS respond to apartment where man allegedly experiencing a bad acid trip. Transported to hospital. Officer Hill: “Don’t do drugs…at some point, he told his friends that he took two hits of acid. How much is a hit? I don’t know…have to do a Google search to find out what a hit is…he thought he could fly, I guess…it’s drugs, man…drugs make you do strange things. It’s not a mental issue; it’s a drug problem…”
- Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop; marijuana and gun found in truck. Driver just charged with simple marijuana possession. Cash confiscated. Gun was clear.
- Missoula County, Mont. (pretaped segment) — Abrams: “Deputies responded to all involving a 12-year-old boy and a very intoxicated, and I’ll say, in quotes, grownup.”
- Pomona, Cal. — Officers pull over a bicyclist for no lights. Turns out he allegedly has a no-bail warrant and is arrested. Graphic: “Not a weed pipe but a meth pipe.” Officer Shreef Erfan to subject after search: “All this just to smoke your pipe, dude?”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputies respond to report of man allegedly threatening wife with a BB gun. A missing truck is also involved in the dispute. Graphic: “What the truck is going on here?” Deputies mediate with the couple and leave location. Abrams: “Apparently it wasn’t the husband who took the truck this time. I twas apparently a friend, and it’s in a ditch, and they need to get it out. But I’ll admit I don’t completely understand everything that’s going on here, except for that’s a cute dog.”
- Pomona, Cal. — Foot pursuit of subject who was originally stopped for no bike light. Subject, who is allegedly on parole, detained in backyard of home. Sgt. Medellin: “Dude you have any diseases? I got blood all over me.” Cops checked immediate area for tossed gun or drugs. Subject gave his bike to the homeowner. Abrams: “That’s a nice moment. He’s basically saying keep the bike if it’s for your daughter. She’s saying come back and pick it up when you’re out.” Morris, Jr.: “It might be a while.”
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officer Hill assist stranded motorist and others by pushing car fast enough to get started. Hill: “I can’t believe it worked. That’s some old-school stuff. That’s amazing to me. It’s like the Flintstones…” Abrams: “That only works on a manual car with a clutch.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop on ATV. Released.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Update on crowbar attack at fast-food restaurant from last Saturday. Deputies arrested suspect on a charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
- Wanted segment — Winter Haven, Fla.
- Tallahassee, Fla. — Officer Hill assists, along with a bunch of college students, another stranded motorist by pushing SUV out of the road. Hill: “I had to be the extra muscle man. I feel kind of proud of myself. Not really…” Abrams: “Officer Justin Hill living up to his name–just in a hill. Getting a workout.”
- Tulsa, Okla. — Traffic stop on stolen vehicle. Driver denies it was stolen. Turns it was not stolen; it was a clerical error instead. An incident from last year should have been, but wasn’t, removed from the law enforcement database. Driver released with no charges.
- Richland County, S.C. — Citizen gives Lt. Danny Brown a mock field sobriety test.
- Pomona, Cal. — Traffic stop; speeding. Voluntary car search. Nothing found; driver released with no charges. Officer James Shinn: “He was very polite and cooperative, so we sent him on his way.” Abrams: “It always helps when you’re cooperative.”
- Bradford County, Fla. — Traffic stop; potential traffic infraction.
- Nye County, Nev. — Traffic stop; license plate out. Driver was the woman from previous episode who was “chugging water,” according to Abrams. Released with warning. End of episode.
Great shows this week and terrific recaps as always!