This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Quotes, Social Media Activity, and Puns
A recap of the February 24, 2024, On Patrol: Live episode (OPL #02-54) hosted by Dan Abrams with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (Richland County, S.C., Sheriff’s Department) and guest analyst Lt. John Curley (a Warwick, R.I., PD, retiree) appears below.
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[NOTE: Click here for the #OPL 02-53, February 23, 2024, recap]
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On Patrol: Live Summary for February 24, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-54)
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Mike Bryant responds to a disturbance at a convenience store. Following an investigation, a woman pushing a shopping cart in the parking lot who is involved in a dispute with the store. The woman claims she was assaulted in the store. Bryant reviews surveillance video of the incident (which is aired on OPL) in which she allegedly knocked items off the counter and tells the clerk not to grab people. The subject is apparently trespassed from the location. The sergeant also encounters a customer inside the store who is dressed like a pirate.
Sgt. Bryant summary: “So this is one of our local unhoused people in the city. She had a little issue inside the store. I guess she wanted to do another purchase. He didn’t want to give it to her because she was yelling, screaming, causing issues, as she’s doing right now. Luckily, there’s nobody really out here for the, you know, disorderly conduct charge. I’m just gonna ask her to move along. A lot of businesses along the Speedway corridor she’s been trespassed from because some days she’s good, she’s calm, and other nights or days she gets a little worked up. We’re not sure if its alcohol or drugs, but what we do know is she’s very upset, …no charges, and she’s on her way, hopefully.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Cops return to the same home that they converged at on Friday night in another attempt to serve a warrant for robbery and assault. Lt. Curley: “Search warrants specifically are very definitive in time, location, dates. So it doesn’t look like they’re executing a search warrant right now. I could be wrong… Last night, they did. I would imagine — it depends on the state and their law — but I would imagine that based on tonight, they would need another warrant with updated dates and times in order to execute that search warrant. Can’t use the one from last night.”
Ofr. Chris Mulinix summary: So we came back out here; we got a suspicious call of the male supposedly being in the house. The mother’s not letting us come in the house tonight. We talked to the witness that called in. Their story’s a little vague, so we contacted the sergeant, got his point of view, and 2-12’s information. We’re gonna just step away for now, spot check and see if we can get him either coming or going from the house, and execute those warrants in a traffic stop, and get him that way, and get him into jail.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Rebekah Smith and other units respond to a report of an assault on a teen at an apartment complex.
- Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Brandon McKenzie conducts a traffic stop on a pick-up truck. According to the deputy, the motorist was not wearing a seatbelt and was texting and driving, the latter which the driver denies.
- Fullerton, Calif. (pre-recorded incident) — Cops conduct a felony traffic stop and detain three individuals who allegedly stole U.S. mail. OPL also airs cell phone footage of the original incident.
Ofr. George Peterson summary: “Obviously, we’ll see if they have any rap sheets, but with the amount of mail that they have here, we’re looking at a good federal case. It’s probably some type of identity theft ring that’s going on as well, but typically they’ll go through looking the mail for identification, state benefits, checks, cash, identity to recover other vehicles. It turns into a complete larceny scheme. They’re not just stealing your mail looking for your grandma’s birthday card with cash in it. Once we flip all these over, I’m sure they’re trying to sign them off to themselves. This is a detective’s nightmare. We’ll document all of the mail that’s located in the vehicle. More than likely, we’re just gonna give it back to the post office so that they can distribute it accordingly so these people aren’t missing their mail…so all three males were positively identified so they’re all being taken to Fullerton city jail right now for processing, and all in all it was a good job. We are gonna go [10-98], and let them start booking these checks.”
Lt. Curley comments on the felony stop: “So whenever there’s a known — there’s a weapon involved, whether it’s through a report or whether it’s actual intelligence, we would conduct a high risk or felony car stop. Basically, the purpose for that is to remove that person from the vehicle and any weapons that could be in the vehicle; get the subject out. You conduct a surrender ritual where they spin around so you can get a good look at their waistband and make sure that there’s no weapons in play. Dep. Wilson confirms that the suspects face federal charges. Abrams agrees: “You don’t mess with the mail…you don’t mess with the postal workers, you don’t mess with the mail, because it can be seriously big trouble and serious federal crimes.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpls. Ronnie Russell and Hannah Reed conduct a traffic stop on a truck. Two occupants. The driver has a suspended license. The vehicle has mismatched tags. Car search. Meth pipe spotted on the ground. Cpl. Russell claims the truck or items in the truck allegedly smell like weed. Caption: “Drug paraphernalia found.” Cpl. Russell seems to indicate that he is issuing a $1,000 ticket for littering and that at least one occupant could face an alleged possession-related warrant pending testing and other evidence. The passenger has a valid license and thus can drive both of them home.
- Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. McKenzie is among the first responders assisting at a car crash scene. One driver is transported to the hospital. Investigation ongoing.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops respond to a report of subjects allegedly trying break into cars. In his cruiser, Sgt. Bryant spots to males wearing hoodies in the area who start running away. Bryant and other units set up a perimeter and search for them on foot; K9 deployed. The subjects are still at large.
- Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Mike Knapp conducts a traffic stop on a truck operated by a 21-year-old male on a hardship license that has restricted privileges because of an alleged previous DUI. “Did you piss on yourself?, Knapp asks the young man. “That’s water; I’ve been in the water all day,” he replies. After field sobriety testing, the driver is arrested on suspicion of DUI. Dep. Knapp: “His third of his field sobrieties were actually okay, but the other two, they showed multiple indicators, especially the horizontal gaze and [unintelligible], which is the most indicative of intoxication. There’s a saying, ‘the eyes don’t lie.’ So he’s obviously been drinking. He’s already had another DUI at 21, so he constantly has been doing this. So we’re gonna run him right now and see what else we’ve got going on.”
Dep. Knapp tells the driver that “I really do like those shoes, though. Those are pretty awesome shoes. When you’re walking, it’s like it’s swimming. Careful they don’t fall off on you. I’d hate to lose those.”
Dep. Knapp summary: “So we were dispatched originally for a complaint of reckless drivers in the area. When we showed up to the area, the vehicle mentioned in the description of one of the reckless drivers came out from the private parking lot. They crossed all the lanes of travel. They ran a red light in front of us. We stopped the driver, and he was intoxicated. He’s got priors for being intoxicated…The gentleman had some pretty cool shoes, however, and we found 15 empty beer cans in the center console that he had been drinking tonight. So he is gonna now go to jail for the DUI.” Abrams: “Gives new meaning to the phrase drinking like a fish.”
Abrams also calls attention to the “courtesy shuttle” logo on the back of the police transport vehicle. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno satirically brands his jail as the Marceno Motel. “That is a police vehicle there. That’s what they call it there when people get ‘welcomed’ to the sheriff’s jail. And that’s where he’s headed.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Heather Smith and Austin Bly, among others, respond to a report of a burglary in progress and search the area on foot for a suspect. Ofr. Smith: “So we were dispatched to a burglary in progress. A female was stating that a man was trying to crawl through her window. When we got on scene and made contact with her, she said that the person left. Didn’t really give any direction of flight or anything like that. So she lives on the second floor. These are pretty high windows, so we’re not sure if he was actually able to be trying to crawl through these windows.”
- Toledo, Ohio — Multiple officers respond to a shots-fired call at a residence. Lots of bleeping amidst the yelling at the scene. One female detained. Ofr. Bly: “When we got on scene, there was obviously someone that was resisting arrest. There’s plenty of officers to take her into custody. There’s no need for any of our other officers to get on top of her or anything like that. So we just kind of waited until she got placed into custody, and we’re trying to separate both parties and figure out what exactly happened.” Abrams: “Looks like they got everyone separated there.”
Ofr. Smith update: “I don’t really know what the original get-together was about, but it sounds like mom’s extremely intoxicated, and she was out here, wanted to shoot her gun off. An altercation happened, and then daughter ended up taking custody of the gun before police arrived. She’s detained right now; she’s not in trouble at the moment. And there was another daughter here, also the daughter of the intoxicated woman that was resisting. She took off in a van prior to us getting on scene, so that could have been the original altercation, was an argument between the mom and her daughter.”
- Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sgt. Clayton Dillion investigate after spotting a vehicle pulled over to the side of the highway with the driver apparently sleeping. Three toddlers are also in the car. After waking the driver and questioning her, the chief administers a portable breath test which the driver has trouble completing. “You’re a mama; you can blow up balloons. At another point in the conversation, he says “you’re not gonna trick it, sister.” The device possibly also malfunctions at one point, and the chief apparently switches to another such device. Lt. Curley: The devices” are very temperamental. There’s a lot that goes into them. They have to be recalibrated, so at times, it’s common to see errors like that or malfunctions like that.” Finally, after multiple attempts, the motorist allegedly tests a .123 on a PBT device and is arrested and taken to jail for alleged DUI. Instead of towing the car and moving the children to a police vehicle, Chief Taylor decides to minimize disruption to the kids and thus to have an officer drive them in their mom’s car to police HQ where relatives are waiting. Abrams: “I’ll admit we were rooting for her here, hoping that she was not driving under the influence. That’s not a good result. Well over the legal limit in any state in the country. Now they’ve got to figure out what happens to her and the kids. It’s heartbreaking.” [See below for Chief Taylor’s update.]
Abrams: “So Chief Taylor there trying to do what’s in the best interests of the children by not forcing them to have to get out of the car right there. They’re gonna drive it back to the police station. Some family members come and get those kids.”
Abrams: “You can tell [Chief Taylor is] kind of shaken up by this, and you know, that’s being a human being.” Curley: “It’s tough, and that’s a big part of the job. People sometimes forget that we’re human beings. Stuff like that affects us, for sure.” Wilson: “Putting little ones at risk will, of course, tug at your heart.”
- Triple Play #3 — Trotwood, Ohio
- Fullerton, Ohio — Ofrs. Jason Coleman and Evan Espanto detain a man who is allegedly harassing people outside a Walgreens. It turns out that the subject is apparently the Big Gulp guy from the Friday night episode. Bleeping.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Bicycle stop for no lights on the bike. Sgt. Bryant: “You got an interesting helmet you’re wearing here…are you a NASCAR fan?” The man says he cashes in aluminum that he finds on the side of the road.
Mike Bryant: "Is that a NASCAR roll cage" 😁😁
— John C. Firkel (@JohnCFirk) February 25, 2024
- Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Terry Fogarty makes contact with a distraught young women who left cash at an ATM by mistake, and the money was gone when she went back. “[T]he whole purpose of going to the ATM is take the money out of the ATM, so I’m not really sure how she got distracted.” Upon making contact with her, he explains that it’s abandoned property and that “There is nothing I can do for you.” Dep. Fogarty: “She tried to get some money out of the ATM machine, and she left it there because she got a phone call. And now she’s upset because she doesn’t have money to buy tacos, but she has $15 on her. She’ll be alright.”
Abrams: “Don’t quite know what to say about that.” Curley: “I do: A good taco is worth crying about…” Abrams: “But she’s not crying about the taco…she’s crying because she got dumped. You guys are forgetting; it’s not about the taco…the tacos are the secondary thing. Wilson: “That’s the comfort food.” Abrams: “Right exactly; that’s the after affect. It’s like, she gets dumped. She’s upset: I get that. She goes to get the money; she loses the money. Now she can’t get the tacos…” Wilson: “This is a big, vicious cycle with the breakup.” Abrams: “It’s all heart-breaking.” As OPL goes to commercial, Wilson and Curley each eat a taco salad.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Cpl. Brandon Ramek makes contact with a pedestrian walking a dog at a park who he knows from prior law enforcement encounters and then warns a couple nearby about having an open container.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Multiple officers including Sgt. Marcus Booth respond to a report of someone prowling around a closed business. They make contact with a man who seems to claim that he “took it upon myself” to possibly be something along the lines of an unofficial security guard. He also says that does security work at nightclubs. The man is allegedly carrying a pepper spray device. Cops arrest the man for allegedly loitering and prowling. Sgt. Booth: “Obviously, he’s all over the place. As you see, the business is closed up; no lights on anywhere. He was at one of the back doors. We had an independent witness who actually saw him as well, trying to get into the business…so he’s going to jail tonight for L&P. He rode his motorcycle down here, so that’s scary within itself, but we’ll get him a place to stay for tonight.”
- Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Mason Weiss and a colleague clear a residence after the homeowners call that someone is possibly in their attic because the light was on there. Caption: “Lights on but everyone’s home.” Dep. Weiss: “We were able to use their ladder. I’m not gonna reveal which deputy went up on the ladder and which one held it, but you can infer on that…but one of us went up on the ladder. The other one held it, and one of the deputies ensured that this was an attic. There was no sofa. They were concerned maybe there was someone living inside with a sofa. They didn’t hear any noises coming from there specifically. They just heard thuds in the past year that they lived there. But no one was in the attic, and light was on, so we shut it. However, we did advise if they see the light come back on without them turning on, now they should call us again. But everything for now is secure. We’re good to go.” Abrams: “Who got to go up there, and who got the ladder? That’s the question. It all about seniority.”
- Lee County, Fla. –Dep. Mike Knapp makes contact with a man who is doing some sort of quasi Tai Chi or Kung Fu form or kata but that seems more improvisational. The man seems unreceptive to responding to any of Dep. Knapp’s questions.
- Missing segment — Tillamook, Ore.
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to a call about neighbors fighting and canvas the area.
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. TJ Norton conducts a traffic stop for running a red light. The tow occupants are detained and subsequently Mirandized. Cpl. Norton: “So as I was approaching the vehicle, I noticed the driver was reaching into the back seat. I noticed he was putting some narcotics away. Also noticed an open container of alcoholic beverage that he was putting back there. Also noticed a firearm. That’s the reason I got him out of the vehicle the way I did. Now we’re doing a probable cause search of the vehicle, and we got the driver and passenger detained at this time.” Abrams: “What kind of weapon are we talking about…?” “Lt. Curley: “AR-15. And Corporal Norton, I thought, did a great job. He really slowed down on his approach to the car, and that allowed him to be able to see what that operator was doing in the car, and how he was trying to hide certain things. So that slow, methodical approach definitely helps pick up on a lot more things.” Abrams: “Again, we’re seeing Michelob Ultra again, apparently a [unintelligible] these days.”
Cpl. Norton was very impressive in how quickly he took control of the situation.
— Monya Havekost (@NEColumbia) February 25, 2024
Cpl. Norton summary: “So as we searched the vehicle, we found several guns, narcotics, and some open containers. So we’re gonna find out who these gentlemen are, and we’re gonna go from there…The driver is gonna go to jail tonight for the stolen firearm, open container, and some possession of marijuana. And we’re gonna confiscate that firearm as well. Looks like at this point the passenger is probably just gonna be cut loose with an open container ticket with a ride. And so we’re gonna get ready and get started on this paperwork here in a second.” The vehicle is towed.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — A subject allegedly wanted for aggravated assault apparently turns himself in to Sgt. Bryant.
- Lee County, Fla. — In a friendly interaction, Dep. Weiss asks homeowners who are celebrating a birthday to turn down the karaoke.
