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

A recap of the February 3, 2024, OPL episode (OPL #02-50) appears below.

About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers usually from eight or nine different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings as aired on the Reelz channel. 

An On Patrol Live recap, including NYC studio host Dan Abrams’ one liners, analysis, and banter with co-host Curtis Wilson, the Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, and guest analyst Ofr. Jason Lacayo of the White Plains, N.Y., PD, follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-49, February 2, 2024, recap]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for February 3, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-50)

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Cameron Blackmon makes contact with a subject parked in a homeowner’s driveway for an hour plus. The older gentlemen appears almost out on his feet once he exits the car. The man seems to say he needs to pee; Blackmon advises him that it is not appropriate to do that outside. Caption: “Tallywhackers in public are prohibited.” The driver also several times asks officers to “stand me up.” Another officer is called to the scene to conduct field sobriety testing. Dan Abrams: The FST “is not gonna be a nail biter.” He also observes “when you need a spotter for the field sobriety test…”The driver is noncompliant with the testing and is arrested.
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Sgt. Jay Holloway and other units investigate a shots-fired report and make contact with a man with what Dan Abrams quips is the “do not dry-clean headware” in an apartment into which other people allegedly ran. Neither he nor any other residents say they saw anything. Sgt. Holloway also looks for, but is unable to find, any shell casings outside.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Hunter Rogers and other units, plus the fire department, respond to a huge residential house fire. Abrams: “This has got to be heartbreaking for that family watching their house just engulfed so quickly in fire.” Abrams also notes that Dep. Rogers “had mentioned there’d been a number of arsons in this neighborhood recently.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Det. Christian Castano conducts a traffic stop. Two occupants. According to Det. Castano, the female driver “has a cancelled driver’s license which means she should not driving today. The vehicle reeks of burned marijuana. In the state of Florida, you cannot smoke your marijuana, the leaf marijuana in your vehicle, if you’re a medical marijuana patient.” Car search. Gun allegedly found. Castano says “the passenger is a convicted felon which obviously prohibits him from possessing firearms in Florida. However, we’re running into an issue on being able to prove that he had knowledge that the firearm was in the vehicle,” and the driver says “it belongs to her.” The passenger apparently doesn’t have a driver’s license either. Citation issued. Castano allows them to park the car nearby in a safer sport. so that a friend can pick it up.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Multiple officers converge on a residence upon a report from a neighbor of a female allegedly screaming for help inside the house. One resident allegedly refuses to open the front door. After a long standoff, eventually several come out. Five persons are detained, two of whom were hiding in the back yard. “What did I do?” Cops have to breach the front door to search and clear the home. Investigation ongoing. Ofr. Lacayo: “This is why you do secondary searches. Just in case you miss something. A lot of times when you try to get intel, obviously they’re not gonna be forthcoming with what they know, so this is why we do what we do.” Wilson: The people in the house are “not going to help law enforcement do their job. So law enforcement is gonna have to separate them individually, question them individually, see how these stories match up and don’t, and figure out what goes on with this.” Abrams: Police “are trying to figure out why these people did not cooperate. Remember, they had to break down the door here.” Note: One officer at the scene referred to two women inside as chicks, which seemed to trigger social media to some degree.

Cpl. Brandon Ramek incident summary: “We’re called here for a family disturbance, a possible family disturbance, where a male was in an argument with his girlfriend. And then someone mentioned that he was threatening her with a gun. So obviously, we do stuff not only at Fullerton, but in Orange County, a certain way. Instead of just rushing in, trying to figure it out, we take our time. We make announcements — they didn’t wanna come out. That’s why we get all of our resources: We get the shield, less lethal. lethal, we make sure we have a perimeter around the house, which was good, because Officer Arroyo found a suspect in the back. And then Officer Futch later found another suspect hiding in the back. So that’s why we set perimeters. That’s why we do what we do. It may be slower than other agencies, but we want to be safe, not only for us, but all the people involved. So now we have a total of five people going to jail. I believe it’s gonna be three males, two females. Again, they’re all going for delaying our investigation and obstructing our investigation, which are misdemeanor charges. Someone mentioned that they did see guns inside the residence. We’re still unclear whether they’re real guns or pellet guns, and we’re still trying to figure out whose room actually that belongs to. Obviously, there’s a lot of people involved. A few of them were on probation. I don’t know which ones exactly were on probation, but a sponsor relayed to me that some were on probation. And then two of the males had outstanding warrants. So they’re gonna go for warrants and probably a probation violation as well, and then delaying our investigation. And then we’ll just try and wrap up, see if those guns are real, and then we’ll be on our way to book them at the jail.”

Abrams: “Well, that answers the question we were talking about before, which is why aren’t they getting more information from the people inside the house, because apparently they weren’t providing it.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Blackmon investigates an armed robbery of a Dollar Tree store. He gathers information from the employees there and reviews surveillance video of the robbery which is also aired on OPL.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Eddie Lee and other units investigate after someone was allegedly screaming for help in the street. Cops make contact with a female and a male, the latter who says “that’s my baby mama; she’s got my baby in her stomach.” Ofr. Lee: “I guess they’ve been arguing about infidelity. So we’re gonna dig a little deeper.” The woman also apparently flashes Sgt. Mike Bryant who quips, among other things, “my virgin eyes!” Abrams: After an investigation, “both the parties were released there with no charges.”
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Sgt. Holloway and colleagues respond to a noise complaint about a large house party with many teens in attendance. “Evidently there’s a birthday party, and they’re trying to kick people out, and they’re not leaving, maybe we can assist them.” He interacts with some revelers and also with the homeowners (although that latter is not shown). Abrams: “Talk about parents now — there’d be a lot of questions abut what is going on, what they’ve allowed to happen there, et cetera.” One teen who is a designated driver for some friends very respectfully asks Holloway for help because someone broke into her apparently unlocked car and stole her car keys; fortunately, she is later able retrieve the keys and her other stuff in the nearby bushes. Sgt. Holloway: “Everybody is dispersing, so we’ll disperse with them.” Abrams: “I guess that is our cue to leave that scene as well.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Bryce Hughes makes contact with a man who says that someone, an allege “crackhead,” was knocking on one or more doors at an apartment complex. Hughes asks the resident, “So what’s he doing around here now — like crackhead things?” With reference to the subject doing crackhead things or euphemistically “bible study,” Abrams quips that “I think he said they were doing bible study there, which would mean that this guy was knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Rogers and other units detain four men in a van at gunpoint in response to a report of stolen beer. Rogers allegedly finds two case of beer in the van. Caption: “Pilsner pilferers?” One suspect tells Rogers that he doesn’t answer questions, but the deputy mentions to the OPL camera that the convenience store has video of the alleged robbery.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers track and then conduct traffic stop a gunpoint on an alleged stolen car. Two men detained. Ofr. Marcus Futch admonishes one of them to make better life decisions. Ofr. Futch summary: “So we got notified about a stolen vehicle that’s possibly in the area. Myself and Corporal Ramek did an area check. Ended up locating the vehicle. As soon as we got behind the vehicle, it stared setting up like it was going to make a turn down one of these streets. Ended up pulling into this parking lot. We activated our lights and started giving commands, and immediately both the driver and the passenger became cooperative. Got both of them into custody, and hopefully this person will get their car back. So it’s a good find.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Heather Smith and other units are dispatched to a burglary-in- progress call at an apartment complex. “We have a female stating that someone’s trying to kick in their door. Sounds like it’s another female that used to live there but has now been banned.” Cops search the building for a suspect. In the course of doing that, she explains to an older gentlemen where he can find OPL on cable, satellite, or streaming. Ofr. Smith adds that “We’re trying to locate the female. She was the ex-girlfriend of the resident that called. She was trying to kick in the door. Didn’t make entry, but he thinks she’s still inside the building. She does have friends that live here. We went to that one. And right now, we’re just kind of checking around and seeing if she’s still in the building anywhere.” Smith subsequently explains that “we’ve hit dead end after dead end in this maze of a building. We’ve have some very nice people that live here directing us where to possibly go, but none of them have seen our female, so we’re probably gonna go on to the next one. It sounds like the city’s getting pretty busy outside.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Hughes and Sgt. Josh Robinson assist on a traffic stop. Odor of alcohol allegedly detected. After field sobriety test by another officer, the driver is arrested on suspicion of DUI. Abrams: “These boots were made for stumbling.” The dad of the driver’s child comes to the scene to pick up the car.

Sgt. Hughes: “So one of our K9 deputies got behind this individual. She was driving all over the road, crazy and whatnot. So went ahead and stopped her because it was dangerous the way she was driving, when he got up to where he did notice that she showed some signs of impairment. We got one of our traffic deputies down here, and he came through and did some field sobriety tests, which from my point of view, and I think from their point of view, that she failed pretty certainly. And so she’s claiming that she did drink. Whether or not she’s telling the truth about how many drinks she ha with that Patron is one thing. But we do feel pretty confident that she is impaired. So she’s gonna be going to jail tonight for DUI. And we really hope that hopefully a life was saved tonight because she seems like she could have ended one if she would have stayed on the road.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Eddie Lee conducts a traffic stop outside a convenience store. K9 sniff; K9 alert. Car search. Abrams update: “The search did not reveal anything. The man was released — no charges.”
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sheriff Carmine Marceno and a large group of deputies including the SWAT team, along with a robot dog, plus aviation assets serve felony warrants on multiple “worst of the worst” suspects at a location. Abrams: “The two-day operation resulted in 78 arrests. They recovered a total of 4-1/2 pounds of cocaine, more than 2 pounds of fentanyl, meth, MDMA, Oxycontin, and weed, nine guns, and $90,000 in cash.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputies respond to a shots-fired call at a bar. A security guard appears to bring out two rifles. Abrams: “Some serious weapons there.” Bleeping at the scene. Ofr. Lacayo: “We can see that they recovered two assault rifles. Couldn’t really get a good view on it, but looked like they had some scopes, 30-round mags; some heavy artillery.” Dep. Rogers and others canvas the surrounding area for suspects who may have been running from the scene as the episode ends.