This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Commentary, and Social Media Activity
A recap of the August 10, 2024, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 03-10), anchored in the NYC studio by host and attorney Dan Abrams, along with this weekend’s guest analysts, Captain Tom Rizzo, and Corporal Carli Drayton, appears below.
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The centerpiece of this episode was a breathtaking and perhaps unprecedented 20-minute police chase in Hazen, Ark., that Abrams described as “one of the most intense pursuits we’ve ever seen on this program.” Scroll down for details.
The episode also featured various open situations that were, accordingly, unresolved during the broadcast.
Note: Click here for the #OPL 03-09, August 9, 2024, recap.
Fan favorite Captain Danny Brown (Richland County, Sheriff’s Department) returned to the show tonight after a hiatus apparently owing to, in part, military service.
Speaking of returning, Sean “Sticks” Larkin, an original member of the Dan Abrams and Curtis Wilson trio, is scheduled to be back in the studio next weekend.
On Patrol: Live Summary for August 10, 2024 (#OPL Episode 03-10)
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — On scene at the beach, Sgt. Mike Bryant and other units, including Sgt. Marcus Booth, respond to a report of a swimmer in distress.
Sgt. Bryant synopsis: “…an ex-lifeguard who was out here on the beach happened to see what they thought was a person go under. We’ve had several people out here in the water looking for her. We have even some of our citizens and visitors with flashlights trying to help us with the search efforts to find this person. They’re just saying a female with long hair for right now. So the search is still on. We have several people on the hardtop, officers on the hardtop, officers on the sand. We’re trying to find this person and try to help her save her life if possible. Here comes our lights now…unconfirmed reports of a person going underwater for right now. That’s a lot of speculation, but our job is to try to save lives, render aid, if we will. So, Coast Guard’s might be coming out. The helicopter is trying to come over so we can get some flare in the water and see if we can locate anybody out here. Last thing we want to do is just take this for granted. We’re gonna try to help Beach Patrol out, ocean rescue guys out, as much as we can. So, the hunt’s still on.”
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sgt. Clayton Dillion conduct a friendly traffic stop on a Tesla for speeding. The chief and the driver have a conversation about the vehicle’s charging time. “You’re sitting there for 45 minutes; it takes three to get gas.” The motorist, who is informed that his gun permit is expired, is released with a warning. OPL host Abrams quips that “What’s interesting is that people always say, ‘oh, these electric cars — how fast can they go?’ Well, apparently they go fast enough to be speeding like crazy in Arkansas.” When the chief asks the motorist is ever watches OPL, he makes reference to Curtis “Adams” as one the hosts.
Chief Taylor recap: “He was speeding; we didn’t get a good lock, but he was real polite, real nice, had a gun, told us he had a gun. Everybody carries a gun, so let him go with a warning. The electrical car thing just threw me off.” Abrams: “Apparently he’s not a fan of the program, but [the] chief there talking about Curtis Adams. I’m not sure who Curtis Adams is.” OPL guest analyst Cpl. Carli Drayton: “That’s me.” Abrams: “Exactly. Curtis Adams, sitting right here”
“You’re sitting there for 45 minutes; it takes three to get gas.”
- Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Ofrs. Brooke Janowiecki and Ainsley Erhart spot an alleged stolen vehicle and detain two occupants at a traffic stop. Ofr. Janowiecki: “So earlier on our license plate reader, a stolen Corvette out of Michigan kept hitting. When I was detaining the gentleman, I could feel a key fob in his pocket. I clicked on it, and it unlocked the vehicle to the stolen car. We verified the plate that it is the stolen vehicle, so he’s under arrest.” Ofr. Erhart: “We did find some drugs in the stolen vehicle, oxycodone and some marijuana. Both of the males are on their way to speak to the detectives. One male did have 12 warrants, so he will, for sure, be going to jail for his warrants. So it’s still kind of to be determined after we speak to the detectives and see what they decide to do.”
Abrams: “So maybe if he was asking, ‘what did I do?,’ it was a legitimate question because he didn’t know — was it related to one of the other warrants, or was it something here? But you were talking about the sort of resistance that they were getting as they were trying to cuff him.” Cpl. Drayton: “Yeah, so immediately they’re really confrontational, asking questions and just not following simple commands about placing your hands on the vehicle. And then I noticed one of the gentlemen was doing some passive resistance, holding onto the bars to prevent them from handcuffing him. So that like in South Carolina could be a type of resisting arrest.” Abrams: “Yeah, and we’re talking about the fact that it’s always very, at the least, uncomfortable, if not worse, when other people come on the scene, like the woman who is saying ‘I own this, I own that,’ with the camera in her hand. The last thing you want is outside people starting to get involved.” OPL guest analyst Cpt. Tom Rizzo: “Of course; it’s distracting the objective which in that place is to investigate a stolen car, make an arrest. It’s that mob mentality that starts. A mob doesn’t have to be a lot of people. It’s just inciting each other.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpt. Brown assists on a traffic stop at a gas station. Brown: “Studying human behavior — I’ve been doing it long enough to realize that when they see us, the cops, pulling into a known narcotics spot, they start driving away and then they stop, and it gives you time to get rid of something, Again, she might not have, but I’ve got to follow my hunch…” Paramedics are summoned to the scene for the driver who has a nose bleed. Abrams notes that the encounter “may be just a medical issue.” Car search. Brown field tests a small substance that allegedly looks like crack.
#OPLive #OnPatrolLive #OnPatrolNation #OPNation #OPLNation #ReelzOnPatrol #OPReelz #LEOs #RichlandCounty the og Danny Brown is back!!! Welcome back. pic.twitter.com/iwRL0BrzEC
— King (@MrKingCoop) August 11, 2024
- Brookford, N.C. — Chief Will Armstrong initiates a traffic stop for speeding (allegedly 80 mph in a 55-mph zone). The driver, age 20, only has a learner’s permit, which the chief implies is equivalent to no license apparently because of the restrictions. Caption: “Not licensed to drive.” Ticket issued. The chief tells the young man not to drive from the location and “call somebody to get you.”
#OPLive #OnPatrolLive #OnPatrolNation #OPNation #OPLNation #ReelzOnPatrol #OPReelz #LEOs #Brookford #BrookfordNC Will Armstrong in the house!!! pic.twitter.com/0l240vm0ZI
— King (@MrKingCoop) August 11, 2024
- Brookford, N.C. — In the midst of wrapping up the previous call, a passing truck almost hits Armstrong. “I had this guy, did not get over, come within inches of him. And I feel like he needs to be explained about the Move-Over law. If I was about an inchworm in the way from him, I’d be eating and drinking with a freaking straw.” The chief pulls over that vehicle on a traffic stop and admonishes the driver. The driver, who says he consumed one beer, is subsequently released after passing field sobriety testing.
“If I was about an inchworm in the way from him, I’d be eating and drinking with a freaking straw.”
Chief Armstrong to driver: “…it seemed like you were flying, and you didn’t slow down, and you didn’t move over, and I was an inchworm away from being a freaking paraplegic…and if you don’t have a license, you shouldn’t be out here driving anyways, right?…”
Listen to the interaction:
“…I was an inchworm away from being a freaking paraplegic.”
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor and colleagues make a traffic stop on a car with headlights off. Suspended license. The driver flees from the traffic stop, prompting a heart-stopping high-speed pursuit (125-mph at times) that lasts approximately 20 minutes before the vehicle spins into the woods and comes to a halt after a TVI (tactical vehicle intervention). The suspect is tased in a muddy area and taken into custody. Sgt. Dillion: “Welcome to Hazen.” The chase involves four law enforcement agencies and numerous precision immobilization technique (PIT) attempts, also known as or similar to TVI. No one is hurt in the chase.
“Welcome to Hazen.”
An out-of-breath Chief Taylor explains that “We stopped this individual driving down the Interstate with no lights. He said he knew what his name was, wouldn’t give me an ID, so I tried to get him out of the car. I asked him two or three times to get out of the car. At that time, he said, not today…took off. So we went to pursuit. I tried to PIT him multiple times…so he’s gonna get a whole bunch of aggravated assault every time we go back and watch videos and stuff like that. Finally his car was messing up, and I was able to TBI him right here. put him in the trees. Foot chase. [An officer] shot him with the taser and got him. We’re about to knee deep mud in there…” One of the other officers quips that “I’m breathing like a fat kid in church.” Chief Taylor: “Oh, me too.”
Chief Taylor to the driver: “That’s the stupidest crap I’ve seen all day, but let me tell you something. Over in Arkansas, running from Arkansas law enforcement. that’s a felony in the state of Arkansas, okay? It’s going to subject you to at least ten years in Arkansas Department of Corrections, okay? And if you run from us, we’re gonna chase you. And we’re gonna catch you, you understand that? I’m gonna send you to prison, you got it? I’m going to send you to prison, you understand that? Every vehicle you went ahead on is aggravated assault. Count those up in your head.”
“…And if you run from us, we’re gonna chase you. And we’re gonna catch you..”,
Hope he finds his glasses, those things aren’t cheap these days. Retrace his steps
— Patrick Nash (@p_nash20) August 11, 2024
Abrams: “You can tell the chief there is mad. That was some seriously dangerous stuff that this guy was doing there. And the fact that he didn’t even know that it was a felony, he’s like, ‘is this a felony?’ Rizzo: “But it’s not even mad though, right? Like what we were talking about before with the adrenaline highs and lows and the dumps, there’s a decompression period that has to happen there now. They’re operating at such a high speed, not just driving. And now, they’ve got to come down from that, that in and of itself — how many cars you went head on with, hold your breath, right? Like we were saying…” Abrams: “We’re all, even just here in studio, right? We’re not even involved in this thing, just watching this thing. It’s like, wow.” Drayton: “The fast speeds, the blind curves, it makes you think that he’s running for something more serious than a license when that could have been a traffic ticket. Putting lives in danger.” Abrams: “…a little bit of a disadvantage here for the chief because he didn’t have one of his faster cars…” Rizzo: “But then it’s also direction, right? You get the taser, the dog is there, so he’s got everything planned out. Everything’s covered. Not planning on the mud.” Abrams: “We’ve seen Chief Taylor be forgiving in a lot of situations. This is not gonna be one of them.”
“We’ve seen Chief Taylor be forgiving in a lot of situations. This is not gonna be one of them.”
Sgt. Dillion to the driver: “Yes, you’re in trouble, but look, it’s not forever. You can use this as a building block.”
- Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Brandon McKenzie conducts a traffic on a truck. He claims that he smells alcohol coming from her. The driver says she consumed “two beers…maybe three.” Field sobriety testing. Abrams: “In these tests, the fact that you can’t follow directions is a critical part of the test. So it now looks like she’s gonna be under arrest.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant makes contact with a pedestrian on a report of someone allegedly lurking in the shrubbery. “The reason I’m stopping you is you just came out a bush over there.” The subject is subsequently released.
- Brookford, N.C. — Chief Armstrong and a Det. Will Robson investigate a 911 call at a residence, check the house, search the grounds, and make contact with a resident on scene. One of the cops observes that “this is a squatters’ paradise.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant assists other officers in connection with a a female who was allegedly resisting. Sgt. Bryant synopsis: “Well, obviously, we can hear that this person is not happy that they’re going to jail. Responding for a disturbance, she got mad at the officer for not taking who she thought should be going to jail to jail. So instead of talking it out like a normal human adult, she punches the officer in the face. That’s never a good idea because we don’t lose fights. So the fight was on. She’s taken to the ground by multiple officers. She gets to bite, scratch, kick. Didn’t break any skin for the officer, thankfully, so he doesn’t have to go get a tetanus shot or anything like that. So he’s good. But she’s taking the ride tonight for likely battery LEO and some other charges. We’re gonna compile them and go from there.” The punched officer is also okay, too.
Sgt. Bryant update on various allegations: “So, just so we’re all on the same page, a little more investigation revealed that she’s battered everybody in this house: her daughter, her boyfriend, and then arriving officers. We’re just trying to calm and quell the situation; we come as peacemakers, and then violence ensues. I’m not sure what’s happening here, but she’s gonna be going to jail for likely child abuse charge, likely domestic battery charge, and definitely battery on a law enforcement officer. We’re also gonna tack on a resisting arrest charge, so those are her likely charges for the night. Hopefully, she can calm down, and she can’t come back here, obviously, because this is a volatile situation. We’re gonna do our best to get everybody placed and set up so that nothing happens again.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Master. Dep. Braylyn Salmond, Cpt. Brown, and other units respond to a vehicle on the road that appears to have a disabled steering column.
- Everett, Wash. — According to Abrams, “Ofr. Danny Rabelos there has seen some sort of something, incident or garbage on the street. “In an affable manner, Ofr. Danny Rabelos interacts with several individuals on the street including one man who is dust-busting his van. “I can appreciate cleanliness; that’s what we were talking to them about.” He also chats with the man and a female companion about Star Trek or Star Wars tattoos.
- Richland County, S.C. — Dep. Salmond conducts a traffic stop for a mismatched tag. Car search (a weed smell is allegedly coming from the vehicle). Dep. Salmond explains the infraction to the driver. Abrams: “Even though, Carly Drayton, you are from South Carolina as well, I don’t think that’s a rule that is specific to South Carolina.” Cpl. Drayton: “No; so tags are not universal. The tag goes to the car which matches the VIN, the make, model, of the vehicle. You can’t just take it off a Camry and put it on a Camaro. It doesn’t work that way.” Abrams subsequently mentions that it sounds like the motorist will be released.
- Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Jose Lopez and Cpl. Rebekah Smith back up K9 Specialist John O’Shaughnessy on a brief foot pursuit after a car was pulled over for alleged erratic driving. One of the occupants gives up (“I didn’t want to get bit in my ass.”). The deputies search for some weed on the ground that one of the occupants allegedly admits to tossing. The driver is taken into custody on an alleged child support warrant from another county. Specialist O’Shaughnessy: “So I pulled this car over; originally it was just driving in the middle of the road. And this guy right here, he just takes off running. I give him the old ‘stop, you’re gonna get bit by a dog,’ and then he actually does come back. And I was very confused that he actually came back…a different kind of stop for sure.” Abrams: “We always say that the K9s can be a lot more intimidating than the other officers.”
- Triple Play #2 — Ohio State Police pursuit.
- Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Victor Reyes investigate some type of domestic incident at a bus stop between a male and a female. Ofr. Reyes incident summary: “So the story we got from [the male party] here is that he was trying to get away from her. She followed him, and he threw a glass at her. I’m sorry — she threw a glass at him, but it missed. And then Officer Trujillo just happened to be in the area, and he kind of saw everything go down. Called for a couple of extra units, and they were a bit uncooperative. So we’re checking the records right now. We have a history with her and with him too…she’s kind of a nuisance. He’d been kind of a nuisance, too. But ultimately, we want to do the right thing. We want to get the actual story. We’ll determine here in a second what’s gonna happen.”
When OPL returns to that scene, Abrams advises viewers that “we just heard Officer Reyes say that there actually was a restraining order in place between that couple.” An uninvolved bystander who cops thought might have been a witness there is initially argumentative until Reyes defuses the situation by talking with the bystander about Major League Baseball. Abrams: “Some take their local team more seriously than others.”
- Triple Play #3 –– Alliance, Ohio, PD (featured on August 2, 2024, for a cat rescue), pursuit.
- Richland County, S.C. –– Cpt. Brown and Master Deps. Salmond and Addy Perez search a car with a makeshift cardboard tag that appears to be full of trash. Cpt. Brown: “There are roaches and ants everywhere in here.” Abrams: “That is the very definition of ‘riding dirty.'” Two occupants are subsequently cited for weed and released.
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpt. Brown, Dep. Salmond, and other units, including K9 Specialist Samantha Ramirez and K9 Kodak, search for two occupants of an alleged suspicious vehicle who fled on foot. Cops subsequently determine that the vehicle, a Jaguar, was allegedly stolen. The investigation is ongoing.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant makes contact with a couple who are sleeping on a grassy portion of the sidewalk.
- Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Joe Bomia and other units conduct a traffic stop in a downtown area. Ofr. Bomia summary: “This car was again on our cameras in relation to some B&Es we have going on. So I stopped it for a traffic violation on the intersection over here. And come to find out, he’s got two felony warrants for B&Es. And then when they searched him, he’s got a crack pipe. So probably more in the car. but we’ll get there. And I just got to verify these warrants and get him en route to the jail.” Abrams: “B&E, of course, breaking and entering. And he has the right to remain silent. And they now have the right to search his car. So we shall see.” Ofr. Bomia subsequently adds that “crack pipes obviously gives you the belief that there’s drugs in there. They ended up finding a decent amount of crack in the gentleman’s cigarette container. So we’re gonna call our narcotics detectives, and they’ll probably take it from here.”
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley and colleagues conduct an amicable traffic stop. The chief implies that the driver allegedly may have smoking weed. No one in the car apparently has a license. Ticket issued. The chief tells the motorist to pull over into a rest area and wait for a friend with a license to arrive, “so they ain’t going back to Georgia tonight.” Abrams: “It’s a lot of people in a car where no one has a license to drive.” Rizzo: “That’s a horrible game plan.” Abrams: “That’s not the road trip that you want to take. You just want to take the bus. You want to take the train.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Bryant responds to a request for assistance from the fire department at an apartment complex.
- Frederick, Md. — As the episode concludes, Ofr. Kevin Long is on scene at an apartment complex where a U-Haul truck is allegedly blocking the road.
I couldn’t wait to see this weekend’s recap after what was one of the most intense pursuits in the history of the show,and it didn’t disappoint! I hope all OPL Fans come to treasure this well conceived and painstakingly detailed weekly review of our favorite show. Well done as always!