This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights

On Patrol: Live — i.e., Live PD 2.0 — premiered on the Reelz channel in July 2022 and generally follows the same basic format as its A&E network predecessor in which videographers accompany cops on night patrol in real time.

About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings.

According to a report published by IndieWire on February 7, Reelz viewership has increased nearly 300 percent year over year with On Patrol: Live on its schedule.

An On Patrol: Live recap follows.

NOTE: See Disclaimer below.

On Patrol: Live Summary for February 10, 2023 (#OPL Episode 01-55)

  • Volusia County, Fla. — Deputies respond to 911 call about a man who allegedly ingested mushrooms and was experiencing a bad trip. Deputy Aleece Duffy and others respond and repeatedly reassure the man that he is safe. Graphics: “Shrooming” and “Psiloscybin bad trip.” Subject says “I’m sorry; I’m just tripping, man,: and that he consumed a “big-ass shroom.” EMS summoned to the scene.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers detain an allegedly intoxicated man in the downtown area. He is arrested for alleged public intoxication, and officer Lindsay Zarick and other officers transport him to police station.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop; running red light. Sgt. Mike Bryant has dialogue with driver who is somewhat angry. Driver released with warning.
  • Spotsylvania County, Va. — Traffic stop; expired tags. Lower of gun spotted in glove compartment. Driver and passenger released with no charges.
  • Spotsylvania County, Va. — Deputies respond to report of brawl at bowling alley. Allegedly a father-son altercation had occurred before offices arrived. Graphic: “Were these guys framed?” Sgt. Ray Pittman and other officers encounter man, who apparently is the dad, outside with swollen face who declines medical treatment and is not informative. Shortly thereafter, the father and son allegedly started fighting in parking lot. Pepper spray deployed. Graphic: “Arrested for domestic violence.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop on pickup truck. Graphic: “Narcotics found.” Driver arrested; passenger released.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers interview pedestrian who says he was assaulted with a cane. EMS summoned to the scene. Officer Gregory Perez: “As we can see, he’s a little intoxicated. So we’re gonna try to get him to go to the hospital. If he decides not to go to the hospital, he’s probably gonna go with us. He’s a little erratic right now, so I think that if he stays out, we’ll probably gonna be coming back here a couple more times tonight. So we’re gonna try to nip this in the bud now, and go from there. He was involved in that fight; he was struck over the head. The alleged offenders actually admitted to getting into the scuffle, but what they’re saying is that he attacked them first, which — by the looks of it right now — that’s actually pretty believable. So we’ll see what happens now with the medics. If he decides to go with them, we’ll end it there….”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop; alleged reckless driving. Cpl. Lamontre Williams allegedly smells weed coming from the vehicle. Williams tells driver, who he says appears to be nervous that “if it’s just that little blunt, you’ll be perfectly fine.” Car search; open container. Williams determines he’s not intoxicated. Driver released with no charges.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (pre-recorded segment) — Studio host Dan Abrams: “Officers had their hands full with a shoplifter who may have taken more than just some retail items.” Officer Jimmy Verdekal detains screaming women: “She’s got some issues going on.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers respond to report of a bail out in connection with a stolen Kia. Felony stop at gunpoint. Co-host Curtis Wilson: “Basically, the guys that stole that Kia right there, stopped, got into another one, stole that one as well, with South Carolina plates. So now they’re searching for these guys…” Abrams: “Initially it was reported of a bail out, but it seems it’s more of a drive out.” Wilson: “Bailout into another vehicle.”
  • Wanted update — the New Hampshire suspect discussed in the January 28, 2023, episode, peacefully surrendered to authorities.
  • New Wanted segment — Smash-and-grab robbers in Whatcom County, Wash.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Traffic stop; driver initially declines voluntary car search but subsequently gives permission. K9 might have been deployed otherwise. Small amount of weed allegedly found. “He’ll just receive some paperwork in the mail.”
  • Nye County, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies respond to report of man allegedly firing weapon in backyard who is possibly drunk. Subject arrested.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop in area allegedly known for drug transactions. Driver tells Cpl. Williams that he is just picking up paint. “I swear to God, there is nothing on me.”
  • Nye County, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies respond to landlord-tenant dispute over alleged stolen cell phone.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Traffic stop on pick-up truck loaded with furniture and other items for running red light. Driver passes field sobriety testing and registers zero on breathalyzer. Released with warning.
  • Volusia County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop on pickup truck; suspended license and no insurance. Citation issued. Vehicle parked. Tags removed.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers respond to home invasion; conduct room-to-room search, but appears to be a false alarm.
  • Beech Grove, Ind. — Officers respond to shoplifter report at Walmart. They detain a woman at exit. They also assist the loss prevention office with investigating her and another woman who was also detained. Possible charges, if any, may depend on the dollar amount of goods that are being tabulated. Graphic: “Knife in pants, meth in bra.”
  • Crime of the Night — ‘Hot’ pursuit in Little Rock, Ark., of birthday girl.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies search area on a shots-fired report.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputy Hannah Davidson stop golf car with no tail lights in residential area. Released with warning.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Vehicle pursuit that reached 100-mph at times. Either an alleged tag or signal violation. Vehicle had left gas station allegedly known for drug transactions. After about a 20-minute chase, vehicle wrecked out, prompting a foot pursuit. Capt. Danny Brown apprehended the suspect who allegedly admits to suspended driver’s license. Cpl. Williams admonishes him that it was unwise to run from police merely over the license issue. EMS summoned.
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During the show, Abrams teased a follow-up about the Cpl. Kenny Fitzsimmons man-on-the-bridge incident broadcast on February 4.

On Patrol: Live ran out of time, however, so that update is rescheduled for the Saturday evening episode.

On Patrol: Live Summary for February 11, 2023 (#OPL Episode 01-56)

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers respond to a report of the kidnapping of a man’s girlfriend. Cops interview complainant and listen in as he talks with alleged abductor or abductors on his mobile. The complainant apparently only knew woman online and for one week. Sgt. Booth and colleagues conclude that the man is being scammed and advise him of same, especially given a request for a ransom paid by gift cards. “He’s most certainly being scammed.” Woman’s picture may be just pulled from Facebook or another website. “You’re being catfished, bro.” The phone number purportedly originated in Nigeria. Graphic: “Suspected catfishing.”
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Officers stage outside residence after report of a possible strangulation. Subject detained. Abrams: “After a few minutes, he did not resist. He came out.”
  • Beech Grove, Ind. — Cops knock on door of apartment looking for wanted suspect who, it turns out, is not home. It’s only a misdemeanor warrant; thus, no force entry is permissible. “We’ll get him eventually; he can’t hide or run forever. He’ll eventually have to come out, and we’ll find him.” Abrams: “This may be connected to an incident we saw previously on the show with the shots in that shattered front door…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop; two occupants in car. Graphic: “Gun in pants.” Per Cpl. Devonte Carr, one man who allegedly had a gun in waistband “does not possess a concealed carry permit so he’s being placed under arrest for alleged unlawful carry tonight.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to noise complaint at apartment during birthday party for three-year-old child. Master Deputy Shannon Tolman politely asks residents to turn down loud music: “The bass is going through that whole building.” Graphic: “All about that bass.” Dad becomes argumentative with neighbor and Tolman and Capt. Brown. Brown calmly explains noise ordinances to couple who are originally from out of state. Brown: “Definitely from New York.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers respond to report of stolen check and interview male and female in a somewhat confusing situation including about the relationship, if any, between the two. Sgt. Booth: “There’s a lot of fresh love tonight.” Graphic: “Keep your heart in check.” Abrams: “Sgt. Booth is investigating a stolen check and maybe some stolen innocence.”
  • Beech Grove, Ind. — Officers respond to report of man at motel who was punched in the face. Officers interview victim who provides a cell phone pic of the alleged suspect. Officers interview man staying in one of the motel rooms who they thought possibly might be the suspect’s father, but victim says that man is not involved in the incident. Graphic: “Pit bull and jelly sandwich.”

Officer Zach Dalton: “Well, I think we just found out why I’m still on the road and not a detective. I got that one wrong. So he doesn’t want to press charges, so we’ll ‘ll try back later to see if the car is there. It seems like one of these guests know who we’re talking about, but they don’t want to get involved. It’s basically gonna be no report, just an incident, be documented on the system, and guess we’ll be out of here for the night.”

Abrams notes that it’s a reminder about first impressions, “you got to follow up; you’ve got to do the investigation…It’s not just innocent until proven guilty because these people are not even in court yet. It’s the police have to follow through on the investigation.” Larkin: “That’s one of the crucial things. Obviously, you have a victim that sticks around, that wants to cooperate, is willing to even go look, and go, ‘hey, that’s not the guy.’ You put a report together. In this case, the guy said he didn’t want to prosecute so it’s just gonna kind of get lost in the wash, but it does, it happens all the time.” Wilson: “He also mentioned, too, that there were individuals that live in that area but just don’t want to get involved. Sometimes we need that information also to be able close a case like this.”

  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officer Zarick makes welfare check on five-year-old boy who neighbors spotted outside and may be home alone. She encounters him on porch and brings him inside. Officer Peter Cordaro: “This happens every so often; mom and son were sleeping in the room together. Mom, I guess, was a little bit more tired than the kid. The kid snuck out. He’s an old enough kid so pretty easily got out of the house. We’re just gonna check on his mom…I’m going to give him a little junior police officer badge and some crayons that we have laying around. They’re trying to get him to occupy himself within the house instead of coming outside like this.” Abrams: “So the mother is in the house. I guess that’s good news, but she’s certainly gonna have to keep an eye on that child more closely. And Good Samaritans involved here; that’s definitely the case.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops detain man who was allegedly spotted walking in the middle of the road. He allegedly has a warrant. They begin searching his bag.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop in downtown area. Abrams: “Earlier…Office Joe Benson pulled over a driver [who] turned out to have an open container but apparently not an open marriage.” Suspended license. Voluntary car search. Driver cited for open container. “I’m on camera, like ‘Cheaters.'” Vehicle is ultimately towed, because “girlfriend” (he possibly has more than one) never showed up to pick up car. Larkin: “From the very beginning of that stop, he was obviously not very friendly with the officer. But as far as towing the vehicle, I promise you, we don’t want to tow many cars out there, because it’s a very time-consuming process. It takes the officer out of rotation from getting calls, but it’s gonna cause somebody else money, and we’re not trying to put a financial hardship on every single person out there…” Wilson points out that the officer waited “multiple times” for someone to show up to pick up car.
  • Volusia County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Man arrested for alleged domestic incident. Abrams quips that he had a lot of drugs in the car or he “was concerned about dehydration and chafing.” Officers found two containers of white powder. Subject insists that it’s just “baby powder and Gatorade.” Substances to be tested at crime lab. Larkin: “They’ve obtained a sample of the substance, and they do a field test. And just as the deputy or the officer said there, that gives them probable cause, if you have a presumptive positive, that’s the term used, from that field test, they’re gonna book the guy. It gets submitted to the lab, where the lab does the official test. And they’re gonna give you a document back, that says whether or not it is a substance, what it is, how much it weighs, and that’s what actually matters in court. So if the lab says, hey, ‘this is Gatorade or baby powder,’ charges will be dropped.”
  • Beech Grove, Ind. — Officers make felony stop at gas station across from Walmart for stolen U-Haul. Driver detained at gunpoint.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers respond to report of people sleeping in van with dog running loose in parking lot of strip mall. Graphic: “Who let the dogs out?” In a friendly manner, Booth questions hippy-type couple who have uncle sleeping in the front seat. Apparently no law enforcement issue. Sgt. Bryant: “I think they’re gonna be fine.” Abrams: “Did they even see the sign on the side of their van that says ‘increase peace, decrease police’? I mean, perfectly legal to have it; certainly interesting. Now they’re having to interact with the police.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Update on Sgt. Fitzsimmons and Daniel, the young man on the bridge. Fitzsimmons regularly checks in on Daniel. Wilson mentions that the original incident had a “very big impact” on the Richland County law enforcement agency. “As a matter of fact, a lot of people were impacted by this story.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to noise complaint at motel. Driver admits to allegedly smoking Molly. Probable cause car search.
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Cops search for boyfriend in connection with a domestic incident in which he may have allegedly been a victim. Cops detain man who has outstanding warrant; subject insists that warrant is a mistake and that he has a court date in March. Warrant confirmed for failure to appear.
  • Beech Grove, Ind. — Traffic stop at gas station; possible stolen vehicle but somewhat confusing situation as to whether he just borrowed the vehicle. Investigation ongoing. Officer Dalton: “What I got out of this incident was that the old man was supposed to take the car home, while Jason was in jail. Old man decided not to take the car home. Jason got out of jail, and the car wasn’t at home, so Jason reported the car stolen. And the old man got caught red-handed I guess, with it. The other officer is waiting to hear from Greenwood [Ind.] if it’s a legit steal and he’ s the suspect. Unfortunately, he might have to go to jail tonight, but either way, the car is gonna be towed. And either the old man is gonna have to find a ride home or he’ll go to jail, so those are basically his only options for the night.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop. Illegal firearm allegedly found on person. Car search. Driver apparently arrested for unlawful carry.
  • Crime of the Night — High-speed chase of stolen car in Fond du Lac, Wisc.
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Traffic stop; driver ran stop stop. Driver says he lost his wallet. Deputy Logan Daniels indicates that he will probably be released with a warning.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers respond to report of alleged shoplifter at Dollar General who had initially locked himself in the store bathroom. Officers question the man and inform him that he is trespassed from location. Unclear if he actually took anything. Three hours later, officers observe him assaulting a man and woman on the street and take him into custody. Abrams: Jason was “scary in his own special way.” Sgt. Bryant: “He comes up here today while we’re driving down the street. He’s going crazy in the middle of the road. He just attacks two random people. This is what community policing is all about. We’re on the road; we’re driving around. We’re making contact with people, watching out for our citizens…He just attacked just because he felt like it. Nobody is injured luckily, but what if we weren’t here so fast? we cut him a break earlier. No more breaks; he’s got to be put away, so that our community can have peace and order and safety. So that’s what we’re doing today…he’s going to jail.” Abrams: “Just like Friday the 13th‘s Jason, sometimes these sequels can be scarier than the original.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Tolman spots a two-car accident. EMS and fire department summoned to the scene. Tolman tries to comfort victims, one of whom claims that that the other driver tossed something out of the car window before cops arrived. In searching the area, Tolman allegedly finds a bottle of Tequila and a bag of weed. Abrams: “Obviously, that is gonna change the tenor of this investigation, now that they found that evidence.”
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Noise complaint at house party. Deputy Daniels advises residents to lower the music volume.

Missing update — Mickey Nedimyer found safe.

New Missing segment — Conway, Ark.

Disclaimer

The On Patrol: Live disclaimer that airs several times during each episode is embedded above.

Moreover, as the the Live PD disclaimer appropriately indicated during its run, and that still applies to the successor show, not all outcomes are known or final.

Criminal charges, if any, may have been reduced, dismissed, or never filed.

When alleged criminal activities are depicted on On Patrol: Live, all suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law, as the current disclaimer reaffirms.

Further, please understand that the incidents aired on the show, and/or a description of same as briefly summarized in this blog, including but not limited to any arrests, constitute mere allegations. The content presented herein is for entertainment purposes only.

Initial assessments, commentary, opinions, or observations about the incidents, which are sometimes irreverent, made by the studio hosts or cops or On Patrol: Live — or anyone on Twitter or on another social media platform for that matter — may be incomplete and/or inaccurate. No endorsement of that content is intended or implied.

Pending Lawsuit

Parenthetically, A&E and the production company for On Patrol: Live, along with the Reelz channel, have lawyered up.