This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Commentary, and Social Media Activity

On Patrol: Live new tonight: An On Patrol: Live recap including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), and analyst Captain Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J., PD), along with the often-provocative or playful social media reaction, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: The “self-service” car wash incident in Richland County was hands-down the winner as far as social media activity is concerned. See below for details on all 24 law enforcement encounters on this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

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On Patrol: Live episodes: Each incident covered on On Patrol: Live in each first-run episode on Reelz is really live, subject, however, to a delay ranging from about five to 20 minutes primarily for legal reasons, and obviously apart apart from any pre-recorded packages.

On Patrol: Live Recap for April 25, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-73)

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  • Monroe, La. — Officers in the High Enforcement Apprehension Team (HEAT)  team search on foot for drugs that might allegedly have been tossed during a foot pursuit. They spot a bag in a tree, and throw branches at it and use other techniques to get it down. Upon retrieval, no drugs are found the bag, however. A small baggie is found later. During the search, Officer Serenity Smith makes a callback to a search by Hazen, PD, Chief Bradley Taylor on a previous On Patrol: Live episode. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “She’s referring to when the Hazen chief, Bradley Taylor, searched on the side of the road for a long time and finally found some drugs. Unclear if these drugs came from the black bag. They’re trying to figure it out. Hope that none of them get poison ivy or chiggers. A lot of greenery there that might be of concern.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “Snakes, gators.”

Dan Abrams quips that “Looks like they may need the Fire Department there instead of the police…and they’re using some very ‘advanced’ techniques here…this is taught at the police academy, right?”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Mondre Rambo and Lieutenant Brandon Warren conduct a traffic stop at a gas station. Infractions allegedly include speeding and no insurance. Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Marijuana found.” Cops also find a long printout of previous tickets. The driver is released.

Deputy Rambo recap: “A small amount of marijuana. He was honest with it. Honestly go a long way; a lot of people don’t believe that, but it does. So, we’re gonna release him on a copy of this citation. So he had to go to court for having that marijuana on him, but the good thing is, he won’t be going to jail, and it’s just, I guess, add to the plethora of tickets that he already has. ‘Yeah man, hey…you already got a lot of tickets, man, and with the marijuana, you have to relax, man. Just lay low, man, because you…just adding more and more tickets, but the good thing is, you’re not going to jail.’ So, we cut him a couple of…tickets and get him on his way, and stuff like that. He honest with it; you honest with me, I can rock with you. If you lie, I can’t help you.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Roger Carlin, Detective Maycon MacDowel, and other cops respond to a shots-fired call. They establish a perimeter and gather information from bystanders and witnesses and look for casings. A male is detained but is subsequently released. Cops on scene provide several updates. Abrams : “So yet another example of police arriving at a scene and not knowing exactly what’s happening.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Sure, except the chaos of the report, multiple gunshots, potentially multiple people shot. So what are they gonna do? Close proximity to the scene, a group of people running, that’s an instant stop, identify what’s going on here. Viable defense: ‘Hey, we heard gunshots so we’re running.’ But then they’re also gonna go back out with whoever they stop with in that area. ‘Hey, what did you hear? What did you see?’ Once the perimeter is set and then they start to peel back the layers.”

Detective MacDowel initial summary: “…it’s college property. There’s kids playing basketball all day long. There’s a bunch of cars parked in the park down here. So somebody got shot. They all heard the gunshot; they ran away. Now trying to do an investigation, make sure they’re not involved by any means. We have to walk this property — look for cameras, look for whatever we can, witnesses, whatnot, and trying to figure this out.” Abrams: “So again, those young people sitting there really may just have been running away from the shots.. They just want to make sure.”

Officer Carlin follow-up: “Right now, we’re still working on getting more details. We only have one person that’s called in. And…everybody else here is being very uncooperative. We have cameras in the area, so we’re gonna have someone check the cameras. Supposedly, somebody was shot. We haven’t got in touch with him, so we’re gonna go to the hospital, see if they went to the hospital. And also found a spent casing here on the ground, so we’re gonna caution tape all this off. That way, nobody can interrupt our investigation.” Abrams: “They’re looking for a victim. They’re looking for a weapon. But they’ve got some evidence right there.”

Listen to Detective MacDowel explain that after further investigation, the man who was detained and then released after a witness show-up is not the suspect followed by a studio panel discussion of ID procedures:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Rambo and another unit conduct a traffic stop on a bicycle/scooter for no lights and for safety generally. “I prefer you to be on the sidewalk.”

Listen to some of the interaction:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Thomas Goble backs up other cops on a felony traffic stop on an alleged stolen vehicle. Two occupants. Drug paraphernalia allegedly found in a car search. Officer Goble: “So he’s saying that he has permission from the owner of the vehicle to have it. Unfortunately, being in possession of the key fob for the vehicle doesn’t automatically give you rights to drive the car. He’s listed as the suspect, and the car is entered stolen in NCIC…so he’s gonna be going to jail for the grand theft auto.”

Listen to additional information that Officer Goble provides bystanders apparently on or near a college campus:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Rambo, Lieutenant Warren, and members of the Burglary, Auto theft, and Truancy (BAT) unit converge on a hotel room to serve one or more felony warrants. The subject is not on the premises, however. Abrams: “The woman who was in that room obviously did nothing wrong.” Deputy Rambo: “Once we get more information on his whereabouts, trust and believe we’re gonna find him.” Captain Rizzo and the panel discuss the operational strategy employed in a situation of this kind:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Monroe, La. — Officer Smith and other HEAT squad members investigate a shooting. Two males are detained on scene, one of whom allegedly has a warrant. A handgun is allegedly found. Abrams: “Looks like they both may be getting arrested here.”

Listen to Officer Smith’s summary followed by Deputy Curtis Wilson’s remarks about the importance of potential fingerprints:

  • Triple Play #1 — a Pinellas County, Fla., pursuit.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — K9 Officer Joseph Stainback successfully opens a car door with a hanger for a motorist who accidently locked her keys in the vehicle. He also verifies that she is the owner. Officer Stainback: “A lot of the times, there’s nobody in this country that likes putting people in jail more than I do. However, sometimes this job — unlocking a door with a coat hanger from the office — is doing more good than putting bad people in jail. So that’s a win in my book…” Abrams: “Good for him, and he’s right. It would have really been an issue if it turned out that it wasn’t her car…”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Caleb Snyder and colleagues investigate a neighbor dispute and detain a male on scene. They also allegedly retrieve a firearm at a residence.

Listen to Officer Snyder’s summary:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Garo Brown makes contact with a driver sitting in a car wash bay in a vehicle that is not being washed. No license. Sergeant Brown to driver: “You can’t be out here in public with your pants down in a car wash, okay? You got to do that at home.” The sergeant allows the man to call someone to pick up the car and drive him home. Abrams quips that “well, the good news it’s a brushless car wash.” Rizzo: “Self-service, right?” Abrams: “Yes it is. It is a self-service car wash. The ending when it’s done with the car. And the gloves went right on.” Abrams also jokes that the man “was doing some scrubbing in a car wash.” Abrams adds that “he picked a bad place in public where Sergeant Brown happened to be driving by.” Sergeant Garro tells the driver that “so it’s not only a matter of you can’t be in here with your pants down, but also I want to make sure that you don’t get hurt or robbed. That’s also why I’m here.” Abrams: “So now he retrieves his personal items and is gonna hopefully go on his way.”

Abrams: “Yes it is. It is a self-service car wash.”

Listen to some of Sergeant Garro’s interaction with the driver:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Ryan Lineberger and colleagues responds to a report of an armed robbery on a female victim. Police search area for a suspect who allegedly stole the woman’s purse. A male who allegedly matches the description is detained. Abrams: “At this point, just a possible suspect, so we don’t know yet.” Deputy Lineberger explains that “we ended up detaining him. He’s got some money on him, but we don’t have the purse or the firearm. So what we’re gonna do is confirm with the victim if that’s him, sounds like so far that’s gonna be him. And the they’ll come and confirm. We’ll do a show up, and then we’ll have K9 come out and do an article search for the firearm and that purse.” Abrams: “So it sounds like now they’re gonna do a show up here where the victim may be brought to the scene to see if she can identify whether he was the person.”

Deputy Lineberger subsequently explains that “we have victim saying no and a witness saying yes. The witness described him to a T once we got him detained. So we’ll see if that ends up being him. We have two K9 deputies on the ground right now. They’re gonna do an article search for this purse, the cash, and then she’s got like passports and IDs that she’s missing, so we’ll see if that’s him. We’re also missing the firearm right now, so hopefully we get that squared away, but we’ll see here in a minute.” Abrams: “Just remember that he didn’t have the purse or weapon on him, so they’re gonna need something else.” Abrams update later in the show: “At this point, they do not have enough to charge him.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Carlin provides a vehicle assist by pushing a golf cart out of the woods. On Patrol: Live caption: “In the rough?” Officer Carlin: “Good thing is, it was not in the lake. We got it out; we helped a citizen push it out. The driver already went home. So I don’t now what they’re gonna do here about that, but the good is it’s not stuck no more. And like I told them, they can’t park there…the person that was the driving the vehicle or golf cart already went home. So we came here. It was way down in there. We were able to have a citizen come and help, reverse it out…the good thing is everybody’s safe, and the lady that was driving is already home, so she probably needs to go to sleep because I don’t know how it ended up down there.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) – Officer Brett Cox and other cops pursue a fleeing motorcycle that had no lights. They search a field for the subject, but he is still at large.
  • BOLO update and new BOLO segment:

On Patrol Live Hour 3

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Amidst a rain storm, Deputy Rambo responds to an officer-needing-assistance call. Dispatch advises that a subject is already detained so Rambo slows it down because the other officer no longer needs immediate assistance. The subject apparently ran a red light. A car search allegedly reveals a small amount of weed. In the audio clip embedded below, Deputy Rambo outlines the potential charges:
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Mikayla Ortiz, with Deputy Alex Hernandez as backup, makes a traffic stop on a pickup truck with a driver who she describes as allegedly “sweating real bad” and is “super nervous.” Consensual vehicle search. Drug paraphernalia allegedly found. The driver is released with a warning.

Corporal Ortiz recap: “So right now, I’m gonna write him a warning. I’m gonna write him a consensual contact. He was trespassing on the property. We developed a reason; he gave us permission to search the vehicle, and then we developed probable cause based on some of the stuff that we found inside the truck. His story doesn’t add up, but he’s gonna adamantly stick to that. So that’s his right. So we’ll give him a record of our encounter tonight, and we’ll send him on his way.”

  • Las Vegas, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — in the Intro, Abrams quips that Officer Russell Booze [is] “investigating a second case we’ve seen tonight of a — I guess we’ll call it a victimless crime.”

Officer Booze recap: “So it sounds like the guy is gone. You can see it on video. His hands are in his pants, but you can’t really tell if he’s actually masturbating or not. This guy’s Spanish-speaking only, so I can only ask him so many questions. I’ll just give my partner a call, see if he can translate a bit for me, and just get some more before we go look for this guy. Because right now, we really don’t even have a crime. Just some guy with his hands in his pants. Nothing to substantiate indecent exposure or any type of masturbation or anything. like that.” Abrams: “This is all getting…a little out of hand…” Rizzo: “No it’s not. It’s in the hand.” Abrams: “Thanks Tom. We actually ‘needed’ the clarification…”

Abrams: “This is all getting…a little out of hand…”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Megan Geary plus the Fire Department respond to a motor vehicle accident, according to Abrams, “involving a diver who at first did not appear drunk, but something definitely did not smell right.” Officer Geary: “He is totally, like, out of it. And, like, there’s no smell of alcohol, but something, like, stinks really bad.” Responders allegedly notice feces on the floorboard. Paramedics transport the driver, who allegedly fell out of the car face first after the accident when he tried to apologize to the other driver, to the hospital. Cops will issue tickets for not having a valid driver’s license and no insurance. Investigation ongoing. Abrams: “We often see suspects run. Here it was runs.”

Listen to Officer Geary discuss this incident:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective MacDowel, assisted by Officer Carlin, searches for a suspect fleeing on foot. Officer Carlin detains a pedestrian who allegedly matches the description and who initially refuses to provide ID. The man is subsequently determined not to be the suspect and is released.
  • Monroe, La. — The HEAT squad apparently investigates some sort of alleged disturbance in a residential neighborhood. Officer Smith has a contentious exchange with a female on scene. Another female there appears asleep on the ground. Officer Smith: “How was your slumber?” Listen to Officer Smith’s summary of the incident:
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeant James Maher and other units investigate an alleged attempted carjacking. A male is detained and suffers a head wound. Paramedics summoned to the scene. Sergeant Maher obtains information from the victim.

Sergeant Maher recap: “In his effort to run, he attempted to carjack a vehicle, but we were able to stop that. So he’s gonna have at least a battery, attempted carjacking, resisting arrest. I have to see what else he’s got going on as far as any probation, parole, anything like that. And it turns out he might be a suspect in a robbery from a few nights ago.” Abrams: “The guy actually was not charged with the robbery.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective MacDowel backs up Detective Noah Galbreath on a traffic stop. Three males detained, one of whom gives a shout-out to Live PD.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — As the episode concludes, K9 Officer Stainback initiates a traffic stop on a rental car that allegedly stopped in the middle of the road. Officer Stainback: “Are you lost?” Driver: “Yes.” Officer Stainback: “I’m gonna make sure they don’t have any warrants. See if we get a K9 here, running around the car, and then we’ll kind of go from there.”
CLICK THIS LINK for the #OPL 03-74, April 26, 2025, recap  [forthcoming].