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

An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

As this third man in, Capt. Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J, PD), returns to the studio as this weekend’s guest analyst.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for April 26, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-69)

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. TJ Norton and other deputies pursue a moped. The moped operator winds up detained by multiple officers. Drugs allegedly found.

Cpl. Norton summary: “One of units tried to stop the moped. He failed to stop. We got into a brief chase. We thought he threw a firearm out. It turns out to be the muffler off of his moped. And we ended up finding some crystal-rock-like substance that he dropped as we were picking him up after handcuffing him. And he’s got some pills for oxycodone. So right now, he’s gonna be charged with those, and he’ll be taken to jail.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofrs. Joe Richard and Nelson Falconieri respond to a report robbery at the post office. One suspect detained after he was initially grabbed by a postal worker. Dan Abrams: “Big shout-out to the postal employees there for helping out, and we were just saying here, ‘delivering more than just the mail,’ right?”

“…delivering more than just the mail..:

Ofr. Richard update: “The story that we got is that this individual went inside the post office, reached behind the counter, grabbed three packages, and then he never fought with employees or threatened any employees. He just began to run away, so all the employees started chasing him. So right now, we’re just looking at a theft. It’s gonna be a theft arrest, and he’s gonna be going to jail. He’s also on *PRCS for — it sounded like some sex crime, PC 266, not too sure. Got to look that one up. Yeah, so he’s gonna be going to jail tonight…and then we’ll see if there’s another charge we can add on it for being involved with mail theft. Sometimes, it could a federal crime…” Abrams: “Don’t forget those postal employees who helped.”

*Post Release Community Supervision

  • Berkeley Count, S.C. — Dep. Rachel Salka investigates on a call of someone allegedly being threatened with a gun.

Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Ryan Lineberger searches the area for a bicyclist who fled. abandoned bike found.

  • Coweta County, Ga. — Dep. Shawn Searels searches the area on foot for an intoxicated male who allegedly fled from the hospital. The subject is detained by another deputy.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Mike Gee and other units respond to a two-car accident and interacts with the drivers. “You always carry a Chucky doll with you?” Abrams: “That Buick didn’t seem to have a scratch on it, showing you that maybe they don’t make ’em the way they used to.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Shannon Tolman is dispatched a fight at or outside a restaurant. According to the store manager, several females wanted to fight an employ, and a social media ‘beef’ perhaps played a role.

Abrams humorous digression: “This scene here [is] potentially serious. I have to admit that here in the studio, we were discussing and debating a sign that you can see in the distance that said ‘three meal deal $5.99.’ Cpt. Rizzo: “I see it differently. Those are three options for $5.99.” Dep. Wilson: “It would say options.” Abrams: “Right. We thought, and I was saying, ‘how the heck can they offer three meals for $5.99?’ Sorry to get into that sort of irrelevant analysis.” Rizzo: “Maybe that’s what the fight was about.” Abrams: “We’re bringing you guys behind the scenes and behind the curtains of what we were discussing here in studio as we were watching that scene there.”

Three meal deal for $5.99?

  • Triple Play #1 — Terre Haute, Ind. A car crash followed by gunshots. Abrams introduces the footage by explaining that “a guy pulled into his driveway after a night out and got the surprise of his life.” Cpt. Rizzo: “Would anybody believe that if the camera wasn’t on?”

“…leaving the nude man dangling from the car window…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Lineberger makes a traffic stop on a go-cart or the equivalent for an expired tag. “This is the weirdest thing I think I’ve ever seen.” If the operator’s license is valid, he will likely be released with a warning.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka investigates an “unknown situation” involving an open line 911 call and a possible screaming female or child that may have been possibly placed possibly from a bar, but is unable to find the source of the call.
  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Falconieri conducts a traffic and detains two males and one female. Drug paraphernalia allegedly found. “Nobody owns anything in this friggin’ place.” The trio are subsequently released.

Ofr. Falconieri recap: “We’re just looking at a little bit of paraphernalia, a little bit of methamphetamine inside the vehicle. Nothing major at all; both very small offenses in the state of California, so just using my discretion, gonna give them a warning this time, get them on their way. But it is apparent they were here to either smoke or do something they shouldn’t have been, and they’re kind of just wandering in the area with no real reason. So hopefully, they go home and make better decisions.”

“So hopefully, they go home and make better decisions.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — A motorist flees from a traffic stop that was initiated for allegedly running a stop sign. The vehicle wrecks out, and the driver is detained at gunpoint by Cpl. Brandon Williams and other units. “I have a feeding tube in me.” The car is towed. Cpl. Brandon Williams to the subject: “You’re being charged with failure to stop for blue lights, okay? I guess you were trying to fake me out thorough the parking lot, but they teach us how to drive through parking lots. You know what I’m saying? And then you try to get back on the road. You would have kept straight, but a car blocks you off, and you crashed. And then…I saw you throw the narcotics from your hand, sir.” Abrams: “I guess there reaches a point where you can’t deny it anymore, right? It’s like ‘no, no, no, no,’ but by the end, with the whole litany of the list of stuff that you just watched him do…” ” Rizzo: “I think it was the eggnog.” Abrams: “The eggnog was an interesting touch.” Wilson: “They’re always running for something.”

“The eggnog was an interesting touch.”

  • Coweta County, Ga. — Abrams mentions that cops received an “911 automatic call about a traffic accident.” Apparently in connection with that call, Dep. Searels makes a friendly status to check on a couple pulled over on the side road. Searle: “They’re out here looking for their phone. It was their phone that fell; not an accident.” Abrams: “So it turns out it was nothing, but kind of cool that they were able to find it based on the automated call and knew exactly where it would be.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Lineberger conducts a friendly traffic stop for a “not issued, fictitious license plate” and will likely release the driver with a warning as long as his license is valid. The plate has same the numbers/letters as the state-issued plate. Lineberger: “The tag that he has on here, it’s marketed as a Florida license plate to the driver. However, it’s made of like aluminum or acrylic, and unfortunately under Chapter 316 [of the Florida Statutes, he can’t have it. So although it looks good, the state says it has be issued by the state of Florida. Unfortunately, that’s not an issued license plate.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Richie Maher patrols the downtown area to back up detain units during Jeep Beach Week. Many revelers on scene. Caption: “Who’s got the keys to the jeep?” Abrams asserts that 225,000 people and 25,000 Jeeps are on hand for the 21st annual event.

Abrams: “You heard them referring to Jeep ‘ducking’ there. Jeep ducking is a thing, I could pretend like I knew about it already. I didn’t. I had to go look it up… ‘As a Jeep Beach regular, we always go ducking.’ No. It’s apparently become a thing that started with a woman in Canada by putting a duck on a Jeep. It now represents kindness and fellowship and nice things, right? All good, friendly things to put a duck.” Wilson: “Richie Maher collected a whole bunch last year, I believe it was, when he was out there. So it’s pretty cool.” Abrams: “It’s just ducking great.”

“It’s just ducking great.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Norton conducts a traffic stop on a pick-up truck for allegedly failing to maintain lane. The motorist seems okay to drive after a field sobriety eye test.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies respond to an alleged disturbance at a motel. Abrams introduces the segment by explaining that “Master Deputy Avery Arrington was called to check on a guest in a motel who the owners wanted ‘checked out.’ The manager apparently wants the man trespassed. The deputies make contact with a man (“I’m 60…I just want to go home…that stuff was not mine…I have high anxiety…I haven’t done anything wrong here…”) and a woman in the room in question. According to Dep. Arrington, both are being charged with alleged possession of meth. Abrams: “High anxiety is apparently a medical condition.” Rizzo: “It is, and she has the cure.” Wilson: “It’ll be the best two minutes of his life right there.”

“The stuff was not mine…”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Tolman responds to a noise complaint and makes friendly contact with a group of bikers outside a hotel.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Rachel Armato and other first responders assist at the scene of a traffic accident. “So right now, we’re gonna talk to the other people that were involved in the car accident and see what their side of the story is, and then we’ll complete a crash report.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — At a traffic stop, Det. Dan Matero and other units interact with an animated woman who addresses the OPL camera directly, in part about her mother’s birthday, as well as a man sitting a car. Abrams: “I’m just guessing if mama happens to be watching, she may not be that psyched about the birthday shout-out in that environment. But you never know.”
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Arrington makes contact with a man in an apartment complex hallway or breezeway who allegedly might be selling drugs, and according to Abrams, “appeared to be his own best customer.” The man is detained for an alleged “abundance” of drugs with charges to be determined.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka conducts a friendly traffic stop on a car that allegedly ran a red light and that might have been involved in a road rage incident based on the supposed vehicle description. It turns out that the car is uninvolved in that incident.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Tony Le and other units respond to an alleged domestic incident between a couple and make contact with various parties at a residence. There is an allegation that the male head-butted a one-year-old child, but “everyone here is denying those claims,” Dep. Le asserts. He goes on to explain, in part, that “in the state of Florida, if a mother and father are not legally married, the mother has full custody of the child…” Abrams: “I get that someone wanted the police to come, but that’s a big detail to make up.” Rizzo: “Again, in the severity of that, what comes with that, crimes against children, there’s nothing to be taken light about that.” Abrams: “Yeah. So, look, they’ll continue investigating there.”
  • Triple Play #2 –– Coweta County, Ga. Dep. Searels and other units pursue a fleeing suspect. OPL then airs a live interview with the modest deputy about the incident during which Abrams makes a reference to the 1970s cop show Starsky & Hutch (which later became a 2004 movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) in the way that Searels jumped across the car that’s not taught at the police academy. Abrams: “Amazing work out there.” Abrams later describes the pursuit as an incident “that seemed right out of a Hollywood action film.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Lineberger investigates a 911 hang-up call . He makes contact with the subject and others at the scene, including one man who translates. The deputy tells the man’s friends that “he needs to go back inside. If he keeps calling 911, he’ll go to jail for misuse of 911. Somebody take him back inside please.” Dep. Lineberger adds that “he’s drunk and butt-dialing 911.” Lineberger also jokes that “I speak about as much Spanish as I do French. And I don’t speak French.” He then mentions, “sent him back inside, and then hopefully the bartender cuts him off. We’ll see.”
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  • Lee County, Fla. — In the same general neighborhood, Dep. Lineberger and other units respond to a report of a fight and one man allegedly armed with a machete. Traffic stop on the alleged suspect who is detained at gunpoint. Caption: “Investigating assault.” The subject denies having a weapon. After an investigation at the scene, the subject is released.

Dep. Lineberger summary: “I got a call for service reference to a male armed with a machete who was threatening people. I showed up on scene, and one of the parties was pointing to a white in color car… that took off from the scene with this guy driving. Asked them what he was going on. They said he had a machete and was crazy. Asked them if they wanted to press charges. They said they didn’t want to press charges. One of the detectives that’s working the [unintelligible] detail found him and got him detained now. We’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened. We’re working through some translation issues.” Abrams subsequently adds that “so it seems that maybe the original person that was detained was the victim and not the suspect. They’re really trying to sort this out, and they were talking to the reporting party there in an effort to help them.”

Dep. Lineberger further update: “We received a call for service in reference to somebody running around with a machete. We have the victim detained. So we talked to him, and he doesn’t want anything to be done. He just wants to go home. He only gave us a small, little excerpt of what happened. But it sounds like somebody may or may not have had a machete. But we don’t have any level of cooperation from them. He doesn’t want anything to be done. So we’ll type up a quick report on it just to document it and get him out of here.”

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Jacob Sahagian stands by while a woman and a companion removes her belongings from an alleged ex’s home, after — according to Abrams, the “girlfriend got the ‘boot,’ literally.” Abrams: “All right, so he helped resolve that. Sometimes when we see those kinds of cases, the officers will say this is a civil matter.” Wilson: “Basically is.” Abrams; “It is a civil matter.” Wilson: “But at times when they need that escort type of thing with somebody that comes, you want to make sure to keep the peace.” Abrams: “It can help if you’re available, you got the time, you don’t have to.” Rizzo: “If there’s exacerbating circumstances, you would just make an appointment, believe it or not, you can do that. You’re not gonna sit there and be a moving service, that’s for sure…” Abrams: “Or a boot.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher, Det. Matero, and other units provide back up from a car accident. “Head-on collisions are particularly nasty.” Paramedics summoned. Cops gather info from drivers and witnesses for the accident investigation report. Det. Matero: “Sounds like there are no injuries so far which is a good thing.” Lt. Maher: The patrol unit will “end up taking primary…obviously, all of VCAT did a phenomenal job locating this and then setting up the traffic pattern…we’ll be able, through investigatory means, find out who is going through a red and who is going through a green. And the at-fault party will get a citation, write some crash reports, tow some cars, and we’ll be out of here in a minute.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka conducts an initially friendly traffic stop for no tag. One of the occupants indicates that he just bought the car. She ultimately releases the vehicle with a warning that if there is another traffic stop for the same reason, the owner is subject to arrest and having the car towed. “I can make this a lot harder for you if you have an attitude.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Norton initiates a friendly traffic stop for a vehicle allegedly doing donuts in a parking lot. “You trying to be like Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift or something?” The driver is released with a warning. Cp. Norton: “So apparently he didn’t know his restriction was on the back of his license, so we had to inform his several times that it’s on the back of his license. So he is actually going a way home now. We’re not gonna give him a ticket. We’re just gonna let him get home safely.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Jon Lozada makes a traffic stop for speeding.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Chirs Mulinix responds to robbery alarm at a Taco Bell restaurant. The source of the incident was apparently perhaps a dispute with a customer that was resolved. Ofr. Mulinix gives some friendly advice to the worker at the drive-thru window: “Don’t use the panic alarm unless it’s a dire emergency.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Noah White spots a vehicle on the side of the road. Cpl. Noah White: “What you doing over here? Chillin’? Yeah; hey, turn the car off for me, bro…did you know you were asleep right here?…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — As the episode ends, Dep. Salka and other units are dispatched to a call about a fight in a residential area. One woman is on the ground. Dep. Salka gathers info from at least one witness.

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