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

On Patrol: Live Season 4: An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and witty 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. For those new to the show, On Patrol Live on the Reelz channel is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

For #OPNation,two Daytona Beach pursuits, a Christian County domestic incident, a Hazen, Ark., traffic stop, the culmination of an intense Knox County manhunt, and Tom Rizzo’s “workout partner” were noteworthy in this all-new On Patrol: live edition on Reelz. For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 20 law enforcement incidents across the nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments. And check back for updates.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for August 1, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-07)

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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Roger Carlin backs up VCAT on a vehicle pursuit after it allegedly fled from a traffic stop. Stop sticks successfully deployed. Officer Carlin subdues the driver who foot bailed. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Officer Carlin to the suspect: “You got to be quicker than that, buddy. Welcome to Daytona…you’re too slow.” Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Drugs found.” Cops appear to search the grounds for any items that might have been tossed. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “They were in exactly the right place at the right time to put out stop sticks and catch him…we have seen on this program, officers maybe get out of their cars a little too early. That did not happen here.” Abrams later adds that “seems maybe he didn’t have time to throw anything since they found all of those drugs right there in the vehicle.” Cops field test drugs.

“You got to be quicker than that, buddy. Welcome to Daytona…you’re too slow.”

Officer Carlin recap: “Long story short, the detectives initiated a traffic stop; the vehicle immediately fled. When it did a U-turn, I was in a perfect position to be able to deploy stock sticks. I deployed the stop sticks, was very successful. The dude got a little down the road, bailed out on foot. We maintained eyes. He was a little gassed, jumped the fence. We took him into custody. People’s not gonna get away from us. We’re gonna get them every time. You come to Daytona and act out, you’re gonna go to jail…three out of four tires hit by the tire-deflation device. We’re gonna conduct an inventory of the vehicle. Now he’s going to jail. The vehicle’s gonna be towed…he’s also getting transported to Halifax [Medical Center] just to be medically cleared, make sure everything’s okay with him.”

Listen to Detective Ray Hurst describe the alleged results of the field testing of suspected drugs as well as outlining the charges, or potential charges, that the driver faces:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Jill Falcon makes a routine bicycle stop possibly for no lights and issues a warning. “I barely saw you. It’s a safety thing; I I just don’t want to respond to you getting smoked by a car.” The subject, however, then gets detained allegedly because of a crack pipe. On Patrol: Live: “Drugs paraphernalia found.” Deputy Falcon recap: “She consented to a search of her purse to which, when I started going through it, I didn’t see anything at first, and then I saw that little crack pipe right there. She is a known drug user. I asked her if there was anything in this bag that’s going to poke me, stick me, stab me, anything like that. She said ‘no, but there should be a little bit of ice,’ which is methamphetamines, in this bag as well, so she’s been honest about it. I love that.” Abrams: “She’s honest, and that may not help her get out of this one, though, if there is some drugs in there, which she seems to be saying there is. We shall see.”

Deputy Falcon: “So Miss…will be going to jail tonight for the possession of paraphernalia and illicit narcotics…” Abrams: “Curtis, they did find drugs.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “They did…the meth ice taped to the outside of the cigarette box.”

  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Trevor Guinn and other units investigate a domestic dispute at a residence. The alleged physical confrontation was apparently over pet cats. An older male describes what allegedly happened between him and a stepdaughter. Deputy Guinn to the male: “After the altercation, she grabbed your balls, and you just put your hands up?…so this was all over cats, correct?…but she got mad about her cat, and then you got mad about your cat?” On Patrol: Live captions: “Spraying the kitty,” “Sad sack story,” “Cat fight happening right now.” The man ends up getting arrested for alleged domestic assault. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.”

Abrams: “Now, I have heard of spaying a cat, but I’ve never heard of spraying a cat, and I don’t quite understand — he’s saying the he had alcohol in a spray bottle…and that was the item that he typically used to spray to kill bugs?” Wilson: “Bugs and flies.”

In the audio clip embedded below, Deputy Guinn claims that after an investigation, the male was determined to be the alleged primary aggressor:

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor, Sergeant Clayton Dillion, and other units make a traffic stop at gunpoint on the highway on BOLO for an alleged wanted subject. Three occupants are detained, one of whom allegedly may have out-of-state warrants. Abrams: “So now they’re gonna try and sort it out. They were looking for a suspect wanted for burglary. We’ll see if this is their suspect.” After further investigation, the chief verifies that at least one of the warrants is extraditable. That individual is arrested. The other two occupants are released.

After the female insists that it “got to be racist,” the chief wasn’t having it: “Relax, okay? I got your license plate number, everything. So quit being loud, okay? You’re not in Michigan; you’re in Arkansas. We don’t do that here. We treat people respectfully, and you’re gonna do the same thing because I know your grandma taught you better than that, okay? So don’t be loud. I’m not gonna be loud with you. So just sit here and relax, and let us work through it and figure out what’s going on, and why they got us looking for you, okay? You got all this attention, okay? It ain’t just because we out here profiling and being racist like you’re running your mouth about; it ain’t like it. We wasn’t raised that way, so sit here and chill out, okay? Thank you.” Abrams: “Now, they are saying they are not the person who they are looking for. Of course, they have the license plate, but they’re denying that…so if they may have the wrong person; we shall see.”

“We treat people respectfully, and you’re gonna do the same thing because I know your grandma taught you better than that, okay?”

Listen as Chief Taylor provides further background on the stop including trying to ID each of the occupants:

Abrams subsequently adds that “they’re still trying to sort it out there to make sure that none of the people are the person that they were looking for because they have the right car. It just seems that the person they were looking for may not be there and that could suggest that they have the wrong car.” Wilson: “Which happens.” Abrams (with On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo concurring): “…or the right car, and just not the right person…or it could be the wrong plate, I guess, but that would be pretty coincidental. Anyway, I don’t know; we’ll find out.”

In the audio clip embedded below, Chief Taylor explains, among other things, that one of the individuals gave cops a fake name and also that the man allegedly has a significant criminal history, after which Abrams asserts that “turns out they had the right car, and it seems the right guy, and now the question is if there any of those warrants are extraditable. And so they’re gonna find that out and determine what to do next.”:

Chief Taylor’s summation: “Right now, Louisiana wants this one individual that had all the warrants that we were looking for. So, we are going to arrest him, take him to the sheriff’s office. Probably release the other two, and they’ll get warrants later. So, I’m gonna go explain that to them what’s going on right now.”

  • Moore, Okla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Lawnmower stop.” Sergeant Spenser Sloan makes a stop on a bicyclist who is pulling a lawnmower. According to the officer, the bicyclist didn’t stop at stop signs, “behave like a car would for the most part…” Abrams: “Maybe he also stopped him because he was pulling a lawn mower on the bike, but we shall see.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Captain Matt Lawson and K9 officer Brad Yearout pursue a motorcycle that fled from a traffic stop. The pursuit is subsequently terminated. Abrams: “That does happen a lot with motorcycles.”

Listen to the studio panel discuss motorcycle pursuits and police policies about them:

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Charleston Armstrong, with backup, makes a traffic stop. Driver: “I got weed, man.” Officer Armstrong: “I see that…the reason I pulled you over because y’all were in the middle of the lane…you almost hit me….” Driver: “Why are you detaining me, bro?” Misdemeanor summons for simple possession of marijuana issued, and the driver is released. Officer Armstrong to the driver: “Pay attention to what you’re doing on the street.” In that context, Officer Armstrong mentions that “I gave him some driving tips.” The driver supposedly asks for his weed back and when the answer is no, he apparently he facetiously asks the officers on scene, “y’all gonna smoke that?” Officer Armstrong also notes that “I gave him some driving tips.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Carlin makes a friendly traffic stop for an alleged window tint violation. Officer Carlin: “You still got a learner’s permit? How you still got a learner’s permit?…50 with a learner’s permit?” The driver indicates that he hasn’t had time to get a regular license because of his work responsibilities. Officer Carlin encourages the man to get a driver’s license: “You got to make money, and you’re out there busting your butt, okay?, so I don’t want to make things harder for you by giving you a citation for it…but you do got to get a driver’s license, right?, because at the end of the day, it’s still saying it’s a learner’s license…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Oldest learner’s permit ever?” Officer Carlin recap: “He’s saying he just bought the car. He’s a hard-working man. So we’re just gonna give him a verbal warning — make sure his license and everything…come back good, and we’ll get him out of here.” Abrams: “…people learn to drive when they’re older…it may be there in Daytona Beach, it’s not like in New York City, where so many people don’t drive.” Wilson: “They don’t need to.” Abrams: “Right. And then you see, like, these older people in Driver’s Ed. ‘I’ve never driven a day in my life.’ I was, like, ‘what — really?’ Anyway, I digress.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Justin Jeffcoat and other units respond to a purported break-in at an apartment. The friendly resident produces a lease, so the call was a false alarm. Deputy Jeffcoat: “…we do have a lot of problems out here with people squatting in vacant apartments, but this one, they have a rental agreement. They just moved in, so it wasn’t a burglary.”
  • Triple Play #1 — A naked intruder at a gym in Lee County, Fla., who, Abrams quips, “was found pumping iron, among other things” Abrams: “We call this a lug alert.” Abrams also quips that “as it turns out, he’s a workout partner of Tom Rizzo.” Wilson intro: “Deputies…got a call about an intruder who was inside a gym after business hours apparently taking care of his own ‘business.'”
  • Knox County, Teen. — Captain Lawson initiates a traffic stop, which likely results in a warning. “He’s a pipe-fitter coming back from West Virginia. Said he’s a little tired. Make sure he don’t have any warrants or anything, and we’ll cut him loose.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Carlin and colleagues, including Officer Tim Jackson, pursue a fleeing vehicle. The driver foot bails. Cops with a K9 and a helicopter then track the suspect. Police also interact with the female passenger. The chopper eventually spots the suspect on a roof; he comes down and is detained. Officer on scene: “Eventually, we’ll get him. Between K9 and VCAT, they’re not gonna get away.” The suspect faces potential alleged charges including fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest, and traffic violations.

In the audio clip embedded below, Officer Ashlyn Cooper explains that she initiated the traffic stop because of alleged erratic driving and potential related traffic infractions — studio commentary follows:

During the search, cops ask a man sitting outside to go back inside his house because a police dog is tracking in the immediate area. In reference to the neighbor, Abrams rhetorically asks, “what about ‘we have a police dog out’ do you not understand? ‘But I’m chilling.'” Rizzo: “And as we’ve seen, unintentional bites do happen…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Austin Crothers responds to a routine noise complaint from neighbors; the homeowner agrees to turn down the music.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Lieutenant Richie Maher and other officers make a traffic stop at gunpoint in connections with an alleged domestic incident. Two occupants. Lt. Maher: “This vehicle was just felony stopped in reference to an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. One of the occupants, potentially her husband…[unintelligible] had a gun pulled on her earlier and was battered by her husband. We’ll finish investigating it, and we’ll find out what our finals charges are, and which gentleman is going to jail…so that ended amicably. He’s going to jail. He’s gonna be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as well as domestic battery, touch or strike. He’s just got to answer up for what he’s done.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Knox County, Tenn. — On Patrol: Live recaps the intense manhunt from last Saturday’s episode that led to the arrest of a suspect, who was tased in the process, that occurred as police were about to enter a home just prior to the show going off the air. During the search near train tracks earlier in the pursuit, Officer Jonathan Harris received 37 stitches in his jaw after a startled police K9 accidentally bit him. After treatment, Officer Harris went back and worked the rest of his shift that night. Abrams: “The suspect was charged with two felonies, evading arrest with risk of death and reckless endangerment. He also got hit with several misdemeanors: assault, resisting arrest, and driving with a suspended license.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — In a pursuit, Master Deputy Sloan Simpson makes a traffic stop at gunpoint a vehicle that allegedly ran a stop sign. The driver is detained. Car search. Deputy Simpson: “He’s gonna be charged with PWID, and I’m gonna take his money.” Wilson: “That’s possession with intent to distribute. So that’s anything more than personal use and less than trafficking. So right there in the middle, where you’re packaging for sale, things of that nature.”

Deputy Simpson to the driver: “Why the hell are you driving like that?…Is that little bit of weed the only reason you’re running? Oh my God; you’re a freaking idiot, man. You’re gonna kill yourself and somebody else over a little bit of marijuana that I’ll give you a damn ticket for…absolutely you’re going to jail…”

Deputy Simpson summary: “I initially tried to pull him over for running a stop sign, and…before I even lit him up, he started speeding up through the neighborhoods, driving reckless. So I lit him up based off his reckless driving, and he just kept going, and ultimately, he’s saying that he ran over this little bit of marijuana right here.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Captain Lawson, along with other units, makes a traffic stop at a strip mall parking lot. Abrams: “This guy was telling [Cpt. Lawson] about how he was shot five times by a neighboring department. Now he’s in a sober-living facility.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Falcon and a colleague on scene at a residence in looking for a subject who is allegedly wanted pursuant to a felony warrant for alleged aggravated battery. An irate older man on scene tells them “he is not here…he hasn’t been here since you all got here the other night. What are you doing here waking me up like this?” The man appears to be apparently unwilling to let deputies into the house to check.

Deputy Falcon recap: “Dad’s claiming he’s not home. However, it’s possible he is. Obviously, he’s not letting us inside, so we can’t just force our way in there to look. We’ll be back later, though. We’ll keep an eye out for him and his truck and all that stuff. For now, though, dad’s getting pretty upset, so we’ll make our way off the property. We’ll let them keep sleeping with all the lights on, the crock-pot on, and all that stuff, because ‘I do that, too.'”

  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Ryan Hebrink and other units make contact with a male outside a home. On Patrol: Live caption: “Refusing to leave property.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — As the episode ends, Lieutenant Joseph Toombs is tracking a possible stolen car that cops were looking for earlier.
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-08, August 2, 2025.

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