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.
Captain Tom Rizzo ( Howell Township, N.J, P.D.), the all-but-permanent replacement for original trio member Sean Larkin, is again in the studio as this weekend’s “guest” analyst. It’s not unclear why OPL is delaying naming Rizzo as Larkin’s official replacement, although Larkin’s contract status may be an issue.
The highlight of the episode seems to be the incident where cops caught a suspect hiding in a barbecue smoker, an incident which generated lots of puns. Two DUI investigations also attracted social media attention. Scroll down for details and updates on those investigations.
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On Patrol: Live Summary for August 2, 2024 (#OPL Episode 03-07)
- Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Toni Lozano responds to a call about an alleged fight at a gas station. The alleged offenders apparently already left the scene. A purported victim seems unwilling to answer questions or want police help. Ofr. Lozano: “So he didn’t want me to ask him any questions about what was going on. He said he doesn’t want a report. I’m trying to ask him questions to figure out the details of everything. And he said he doesn’t want anything done, so we can’t force someone to be a victim if they don’t want to.” The subject apparently can’t find his car keys, and Ofr. Lozano informs him that she and the store employees searched the convenience store and couldn’t find the keys. The subject was allegedly throwing things inside the store according to employees, and Lozano warns him to exit the location or face trespassing charges per the store manager. Ofr. Lozano: “These are your two options. You leave, and you come back later when you’re calm and everything’s fine, with a ride.”
- Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Charles Pallette and other units make contact with a man who was allegedly throwing things at a supermarket. He is advised that he is trespassed from the store.
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sgt. Clayton Dillion respond to an apparent domestic dispute at a residence. While on scene, a man rolls up on a bike and in speaking with the chief, he alludes to a previous conversation about demons in a house. Chief Taylor: “This is ongoing. A lot of times, Desiree and him, or baby mama and daddy, they got a kid together. Candace is always arguing with somebody, so they left, him and Desiree left, and Tommy come over here seeing spirits and devils. Welcome to Hazen, in town.” OPL host Dan Abrams: “…I thought the chief there was gonna become a Ghostbuster…talking about demons in the house.”
“Welcome to Hazen, in town.”
- Everett, Wash. — Sgt. Nate Wallace and other units investigate a moped with no plates and with a scratched off VIN that is parked outside a residence. According to Abrams, a subject connected to the bike allegedly may be involved in other crimes. Cpt. Rizzo on the reversible scratched-off VIN issue: “So for that, that was a sloppy job, a sloppy attempt. That’s easily raised, believe it or not. So when they scratch the surface, it’s embedded deeper with that. So there’s a chemical mixture that the lab or a tech could actually raise the VIN. That’s what we call raising a VIN and restore it to a readable measure.”
Sgt. Wallace: “So the plan right now is we suspect and believe that this is most likely a stolen motor scooter. We have some witnesses that indicate the guy that was riding it went into a unit down here. Our…team here is familiar with the place. They’re actually gonna look at maybe writing a warrant or trying to make contact with the guy down there, to see if there’s any documentation for the vehicle or anything like that. So we’re kind of a little bit of a standstill until the team shows up and rolls from there.” Abrams: “…not only is the moped reported stolen, but the person who was on it apparently shot twice.” Abrams update: “The violent crimes unit did take over that scene where they were looking for the guy who may have been shot on the stolen moped.”
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor and colleagues track a possible stolen car. Sgt. Dillion has a long gun in readiness. “Hopefully they pull over, but we’re prepared for the worst.” Traffic stop at gunpoint. Three occupants. The cops assist the front-seat passenger with his wheelchair, which was in the trunk. Car search, so that he can exit the vehicle. The driver is convicted felon who may have purchased the vehicle from someone for $500. Taylor: “Right now, we got everybody secured in the vehicle…right now, the vehicle is getting confirmed as stolen out of Texas. Found a little bit of — either the driver or the female said that there was some cocaine in the console. So there was a little bit of cocaine in the console. Everybody’s good. Nobody’s hurt.” Gun allegedly found in the car. According to Chief Taylor, the driver is or might be charged with “theft by receiving” and for alleged possession of a small amount of cocaine. Abrams: “Sounds like this guy could end up having a number of legal problems there. Convicted felon with the weapon and the drugs, the receipt of the stolen vehicle, et cetera. So we shall see.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Noah Galbreath, K9 Detective Roger Lawson, and other units conduct a traffic stop. “I just stopped this gentleman because once I ran the tag, it said that the registered owner, who is this gentleman, doesn’t have a valid license. So I’m gonna check and see why his license isn’t valid, and we’ll go from there.”
- Everett, Wash. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Brian Setzer detains a man after a foot pursuit after the subject bailed from a car. “I’m afraid of cops.” Ofr. Setzer to a female on scene: “Do I look scary?” She jokes in response, “I could take you.” She also seems to say that there are “remnants of maybe old drugs or something” in the car. The subject apparently was under the erroneous impression that he had a warrant. Ofr. Setzer summary: “He’s under arrest for failure to obey, invalid trip permit, resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance, and driving while suspended.” Abrams: “As that pursuit was happening…you were talking about the exact language that the officer was yelling at the suspect.” Cpt. Rizzo: “Clearly it seems to be part of a protocol, ‘you’re not free to leave, you’re under arrest.'” Abrams: “That they have to say.” Rizzo: “And to remember to recite that, plus direction of travel, I’m terrible with that; I wouldn’t be able to remember half that except what’s the goal in mind, right?” Abrams: “And…this started on the issue of a trip permit.” OPL co-host/analyst Dep. Curtis Wilson: “Right; it wasn’t filled out correctly, that’s what started this whole thing, and a trip permit basically is an unregistered vehicle, being able to move it from one location to the other.”
- Fontana, Calif. –– Ofr. Lozano and a colleague respond to a landlord-tenant dispute. The landlord does not have a court-ordered eviction notice signed by a judge, however.
- Frederick, Md. — Ofr. Andrew Coady and a colleague conduct a traffic stop on an alleged wrong-way driver who says she consumed two glasses of wine. She is arrested after field sobriety testing. See update below.
- BOLO segment –– Dallas, Tex.
- Richland County, S.C. — Master Dep. Avery Arrington, Cpl. Ethyn Perkins, and other units pursue a Dodge Challenger that allegedly fled from police. The vehicle in question allegedly hit another vehicle head-on. The victim vehicle is in flames, prompting a response from the Fire Department. Both vehicles have substantial damage. The victim apparently suffered a broken leg in the collision. Paramedics summoned.
Dep. Arrington’s interim summary: “They chased him for an for improper turn; he took off on them. They tried to stop him. He kept going. He T-boned at the intersection…we have one person injured, he’s on the side of the road, the victim, he was at the light turning, the guy collided right into him. We have two suspects from the other vehicle detained in the back of the patrol vehicle…” Abrams subsequently mentions that “the driver of the first car obviously has been arrested.”
Watch/listen to Dep. Arrington’s recap below, in which he mentions that one of the detained individuals has minor injuries, and he will accordingly receive treatment before cops take him to jail.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Lawson and other units, including Sgt. Chris Maher, pursue a fleeing vehicle and then a driver who foot bailed. Lawson to woman on the street: “Stop talking and tell me where he ran…you’re full of sh*t…” K9 Ali locates a suspect hiding in a barbecue smoker in a residential yard. Det. Lawson: “Another day, another Ali catch. Don’t run from VCAT.” Car search. Ofr. Thomas Goble examines a substance that, however, field-tests negative for narcotics. Cops check Drugs.com for the numerical designation of a pill that they found. The car is towed.
Before the suspect is detained, Abrams mentions that it’s a “confusing situation for officers. They know that there was a vehicle that fled, but then immediately the first people they see are saying ‘I have nothing to do with anything.'” OPL guest analyst Cpt. Tom Rizzo: “And they had no knowledge of where the suspect allegedly ran. If you noticed him, too, trying to shoo them out of the way. That’s so that the dog doesn’t get distracted or potentially by accident apprehend the wrong person.”
“Another day, another Ali catch. Don’t run from VCAT.”
Abrams: “That’s a case of literally smoking him out. K9 Ali was able to direct him right to the spot where he was hiding…I don’t think we’ve ever seen that before. And now they’re gonna grill him.” Wilson: “So he’s the flavor of the month. His rump was roast.”
- Indian River County, Fla. — Sgt. Cliff Labbe and other units respond to an alleged dispute or a disturbance between exes over car keys. Bleeping. The female subject gets a ride home.
Listen to Sgt. Labbe’s recap:
- Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Pallette makes contact with a man on the ground over a report of a possible OD, but it is not an OD. The subject seems enamored with the officer’s last name. “You have a badass name.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Dep. Arrington and Cpl. Perkins, plus other units, respond to an alleged burglary in progress at an apartment complex and detain a man inside one of the units. Cpl. Perkins: “Basically we got a call that this gentleman was inside this vacant apartment just trying to live and stuff like that. So right now, we have him detained. We’re gonna find out if he belongs here, and if not, he’s probably gonna go to jail.” Dep. Arrington: “So we found one individual inside. We checked the whole residence; no one else is here. He said he’s only here for like a day. It looks like this place has been abandoned for a while, so I’m assuming he’s only here for the day, but we checked the whole residence. No one else is here, so what we’ll do is we’ll trespass him. I’m just looking around to see if there’s anything else he left behind that he wasn’t supposed to be having…” Abrams: “Alright, so he’s just gonna likely get a trespassing charge there.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Joe Bomia and colleagues are dispatched to an armed robbery in progress, but it turns out to be a false alarm. The cashier apparently hit the panic alarm by accident.
- Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Cops detain a woman who was allegedly walking around the neighborhood with a gun. “It’s a BB gun.” Officer: “I don’t give a sh*t what it is.” Ofr. Ainsley Erhart: “Turns out she has a misdemeanor warrant for attempt to commit a crime, and we’re also going to charge her with inducing panic because she was walking around with a gun in her hand, freaking out all of the neighbors. So we’re gonna have a crew transport her to the jail and call it a night.” Abrams: “It is amazing how realistic these BB guns look.” Wilson: “And it happens a lot with these kids out there. Now you have a woman who has it as well. And it’s a problem, not just from the police perspective, but also from the public perspective, because it’s causing fear and things of that nature. So therefore, this could have been bad.”
- Frederick Md. — During a rainstorm, Ofr. Coady and other units make contact with a driver who was allegedly involved in two accidents. “You can barely speak, and you hit two cars.” The subject is arrested (“for what?”) after field sobriety testing.
Ofr. Coady interim overview: “This guy hit a two truck two blocks up, and then came down here. And then this car, the car in front, the red car, was stopped at the red light, and he plowed into him at the red light. And right now, we’re talking to him because he definitely does not seem okay to drive. I don’t know if he’s on drugs or what he’s on.”
- Everett, Wash. — Sgt. Wallace and colleagues make contact with a woman at an apartment complex upon a report of someone screaming there. She seems to be okay. While on scene, two males separately start arguing with each other. Abrams: “In some communities, there is a lot of harmony; in some, there isn’t.”
- Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong conducts a traffic stop for an expired tag and a suspended license. Ticket issued, although the chief alludes to the potential option of taking the driver to jail and that the driver was allegedly deflecting about the situation. “I have direct access to the DMV…” He later adds that “I’m cutting her a break. She’s literally in her driveway.” Abrams: “One of those very rare situations where being at your house, in your car, actually paid off. We always say, it’s not home base; it’s not gonna help you. This one…that rare occasion…”
- Frederick, Md. — Ofr. Ben Graumann makes contact with an allegedly “heavily intoxicated” man leaning on a van after an alleged 911 hang-up. Paramedics summoned to the scene. Abrams: “There’s drunk, and then there’s that.”
“There’s drunk, and then there’s that.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Cops detain a subject after a call about a man who allegedly brandished a gun at a woman. “I didn’t do nothing…” He also asks over and over “what did I do?” Abrams: “Seems like he’s no longer asking what did I do. He’s got other concerns now.” Bleeping.
“What did I do?”
Ofr. Bomia provides further information (listen):
- Triple Play #1 — Alliance, Ohio, cat rescue.
- Richland County, S.C. — As the episode ends, Cpl. Perkins investigates an armed robbery at a fast-food restaurant. A store manager is headed to the scene to provide cops with access to store security footage.
Cpl. Perkins initial summary:
