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

A recap of the January 13, 2024, OPL episode (OPL #02-44) 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-hosts Curtis Wilson, the Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, and retired Tulsa, Okla., cop Sean “Sticks” Larkin, follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-43 recap]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for January 13, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-44)

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Eddie Lee with K9 Zeus, and other units, respond to a report of a bus driver allegedly threatened with a knife. An animated suspect is detained about two blocks away from the bus depot outside of a liquor store; heavy bleeping. Ofr. Lee: “So, this aggravated assault — they sent out a picture from the surveillance video. This the guy. So were just gonna do a show-up with the victim just to confirm that the victim can identify the suspect. Then he’ll be going to jail if the identity is confirmed.”

Dan Abrams: “So it looks like the bus driver just identified him. They keep him in a police car with the tinted window, right?” Dep. Wilson: “It’s pretty much a show-up. They bring the victims to them, and they’ll let them see it, and once they say, make the positive ID, that guy is going.” Abrams: “A lot of the time, the victims don’t want to be seen even though they had a confrontation. They’ll often ask the victim ‘do you want to remain anonymous?,’ et cetera, and that’s why we saw, I think, the tinted window, and the person not getting out of the car.” Sgt. Larkin: “Exactly. It’s done for their safety, for anonymity, and when a crime just happens, you could do a show-up. If you got the separation in time, that’s when you have to put together a ‘six pack,’ or actual photo lineup with multiple suspects.” Abrams: “There’s no question. He’s admitting he was the guy. So the question of what happened.”

Ofr. Lee update: “…The driver did not identify him, but based on the video,,,he’s gonna be going to jail for the aggravated assault…he’s probably drunk. If not yet, he’s was going to be. He bought some liquor from the store…”

Abrams: “So it turns out the bus driver did not identify him, but they’ve got video.”

Abrams: “This is another one of those situations, we see it all the time, where a suspect yells, curses, insults the officers, and the officers have to keep their cool.” Larkin: “One thing that’s very common — you’ll have a group of officers and a suspect will just focus on one person. He’ll be cool with everybody else and focus on one officer sometimes, which is happening here. But yeah, you hear this type of stuff every day, all day long, from a wide range of different people…you just have to keep your cool, do your job. Usually, it’s never personal. Something to do with the guy right out there. Wilson: “You just can’t take it personally.”

  • Richland County S.C. — Master Dep. TJ Norton and Sgt. Josh Robinson conduct a traffic stop on a U-Haul. Caption: “Alligator crystal necklace.” Abrams: “Different use of alligator skin there.” The driver with the interesting necklace, and who has a suspended license, is detained because he supposedly has a warrant out of another jurisdiction for failure to appear. It turns out after the deputies double-check that the warrant is not confirmed or active. The friendly officers release the driver with a recommendation to follow-up with the other agency to sort out the potential warrant. His mon will drive the vehicle home to avoid a tow.
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Cpl. Eric Freeland and other officers respond to a report of a burglary in progress. The residence is cleared; no intruders found.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Pending instructions form his supervisor, Cpl. Dylan Lee heads to provide back for another agency up on a stolen vehicle pursuit. He winds up getting re-dispatched elsewhere, however.
  • Indian River County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies, including helicopter assets, pursue suspects who fled after an alleged armed carjacking. Stop sticks deployed. Traffic stop at gunpoint. Abrams: “Both of them minors, and we heard them say specifically, ‘I’m 13, I’m 13.’ That doesn’t really change anything from an officer’s safety perspective.” Wilson: “Oh, not at all, because kids at that age can be even more reckless because of that age, which then makes it even more of a factor for us when we have to apprehend them. They have guns; they’ll shoot just as an adult would.” Larkin: “I think, statistically, across the country, the major number of carjackings…it’s juveniles…even the teenagers, 18-19 year olds; it’s all these young kids that are out there doing it, running around with guns jacking people.” The panel also praised the communications between the officers that allowed them to pinpoint the suspects.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers with K9 assets locate and detain a subject who is wanted on an alleged felony warrant and had allegedly been a run for a year or two. Ofr. Taylor Carman: “Trying to do a routine traffic stop. He fled from them…stick hit. He ended up crashing his car and fleeing from his vehicle. Eyes were on him the entire time. Lt. Maher actually found him running through here, and that’s where we were able to box him in even faster. ..” Sgt. Mike Bryant: We’ll get him checked out by medial professionals. He’s going to straight to…jail tonight.” Abrams: “They got him. That was a long time waiting for that one.” With reference to VCAT, the Daytona Beach Violent Crime Apprehension Team, Wilson explains that “they’re out there; they get information. They find this person. They do surveillance on him. He takes off, and of course, now he’s got the patrol out there as well, all surrounding that area…he didn’t want anything to do with the dog.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee and other units conduct a traffic stop at a gas station for a vehicle with no headlights. The driver explains that it’s a fuse issue. Lee, who is big on honesty, and the driver have a back and forth about whether she was initially truthful about any drugs in the car. “You lied to my face.” Weed and ecstasy was allegedly found. A female officer did not find any other drugs on her, Abrams notes. Lee: “I’m not gonna take you to jail tonight, okay? I need you to learn this little lesson, all right. What I am gonna make you do, make you get rid of that marijuana and get rid of these two little pills if that, okay? I’m gonna write you a warning for the headlight, okay, so you’re not gonna get hemmed up for the headlight either, okay? This is a new year, and it needs to be a new you…you need to make better decisions…”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Jacob Sahagian initiates a bicycle stop on a man with whom he is familiar and pats him down.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Mike Gee and Chris Mulinix assist a motorist by pushing a car that ran out of gas. Abrams: “With the windchill, it’s two degrees there.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Gee and Mulinix along with many other units respond to a report of a gun threat at an apartment complex. One man is detained next to a fence on the grounds of the complex. Cops search for another possible suspect. Abrams: “A lot of the times when we get these calls about someone breaking in, et cetera. It turns out being nothing; sometimes it ends up being something.” Larkin: “Sometimes you’re looking for one particular suspect, just the presence of the police, somebody else takes off running. So they’ve got to figure out if this guy is actually even connected to the original call with the gun.”
  • Triple Play #3 — Pasco County, Fla. An attempted traffic stop results in a fleeing vehicle pursuit. PIT maneuver. The driver, who was allegedly on ecstasy, is detained at gunpoint and faces multiple charges.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Deputies respond to a report of a possible car accident but find no evidence of same.
  • Coweta County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Myles Moran and other units initiate a traffic stop for failure to maintain lane and a tag light out. Moran says he smells weed. Officers suspect one of the occupants ate some weed, but the man insists it was some chicken. “Was it green chicken?” K9 deployed; K9 alert. Car search. Cops allegedly find some marijuana on the floor along with a bag of possible crystal meth amphetamine. Both occupants arrested for possession of drugs. The driver is also charged with the lane infraction and possession of a firearm (inside his pants) in commission of a felony. Car towed. The studio panel then banters about chicken.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Brandon McKenzie conducts a friendly traffic stop on some sort of shuttle vehicle for cutting off another vehicle. Abrams: “Golf cart meets an ATV.” Released with a warning.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Gee and Milinix provided backup at the jail for a purported unruly suspect. Bleeping. Ofr. Gee explains that “we got called out for some kind of disorder. When they responded, he threatened one of the officers…so they arrested him for menacing. So when they brought him down here, and he’s being combative in the back of the car. Probably making more threats, but he calmed down on the way down here. He’s upset but he’s being calm. So he’ll go to jail tonight for menacing an officer.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Lee heads to a drive-by, shots-fired call. The complainant was delivering pizzas when says he was shot by someone in a pick-up truck who was following him. “Apparently [the complainant] said he still got a pizza delivery. So we’re trying to get a location of where we can meet the caller at so we can get the information and make sure everybody is okay…the guy seems to kind of be worried about delivering that pizza, so I don’t know if there is a 30-minutes-or-less rule.” Cpl. Lee update: “Apparently he put our dispatcher on hold to deliver said pizza, and then said we can meet with him later, so he doesn’t seem that concerned about it, so we were advised from the higher up that we’ll let him call us whenever he’s ready, and then we’ll handle it.” Deputies separately search for the area for the suspect.

Abrams; “If I owned that pizza shop, I want to give that guy a bonus. I mean, that’s the kind of guy you want working at your pizza shop. He’s gonna make sure he gets there. ‘You can shoot at me, I don’t care, I’m gonna get you that pepperoni pizza.'” The hosts then banter about whether the 30-minute guarantee is still a thing (it does, but with certain exceptions).

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Sean Wagner and other units, along with paramedics, respond to a report of a fight between neighbors. The victim, who has a one-inch gash on his head allegedly from a pipe, declines to press charges and just wants an apology, plus the return of his lighter. The other man claims the victim was the aggressor. Ofr. Wagner: “A decision was made — even though both parties didn’t want to press charges and things like that — in the end, one of these parties picked up a deadly weapon and struck somebody in the head. He could have killed him. And even though they say they’re fine, and they’re gonna be okay, who’s to say in five minutes after we leave, they don’t get into another argument over another lighter, and someone does actually die. So we’re gonna go ahead and take that gentleman to jail today. His charges are gonna end up being aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.”

Abrams: “And an interesting reminder there that just because someone doesn’t want to press charges doesn’t necessarily mean the police don’t bring charges.” Larkin: “They did the right thing. They’re gonna have these two guys separate because of the severity of the crime. And just as he mentioned right there, you don’t want to leave the scene and then something else further escalates, someone does get killed. The district attorney can then make a decision, ‘hey, the victim says he’s not gonna cooperate.’ They can dismiss the charges then and there.” Wilson: “Or pick up the case depending upon what they want to do.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Lee, colleagues, and paramedics are dispatched to a convenience store where a man allegedly passed out “is now turning purple.” Narcan administered. The man is transported to the hospital. Ofr. Lee: “He was pretty close to dying, so probably not do drugs. Never turns out well.” Abrams: “Good news is that he is now conscious again after getting Narcan.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Matt Grosse and other units make contact with a man at a gas station who has been previously trespassed from that location. As an ID, the man presents cops with a printout of his mugshot. Ofr. Grosse explains that “he doesn’t have a Florida ID, but he carries his mugshot that had the trespassing charge on it to give us as his ID. So he’s gonna go to jail for trespassing after warning. We’re gonna try to help him out, try to get him a shelter, something, that way he’s not in this predicament anymore. Try to get him the help that he needs; that way he can get off the property.”

Larkin: “You work with what you got. And I have come across several guys — car stops, pedestrian checks — they’ve got their department of corrections card, their inmate card, where they were locked up for a few years, or just like that, they’ve got their, what we call, booking photo, with all their paperwork. And they’ve been released from the jail, they’ll have it in their wallet. It serves as an ID….” Wilson: “Indigent, no money — this is the best thing to do.” Larkin then jokes about “glamour shots.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies conduct friendly traffic stop and conduct a car search. Open container spotted. This is apparently one of the occupant’s birthday weekend.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Ofr. George Peterson and other units conduct a traffic stop and detain the driver. Caption: “Drug paraphernalia found.” Ofr. Peterson: “Stopped this vehicle for expired registration. Almost immediately he started kind of driving erratically. Stopped real quick…all kinds of indicators that were just red flags. He started separating himself from something in the vehicle. Doesn’t want us to search [him]. He’s got an expired driver’s license, so we’re gonna do an inventory tow of the vehicle. Upon an inventory tow, located a sock; immediately felt a glass meth pipe inside that sock, so we’re gonna continue our search.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Hannah Reed provides a jump for a vehicle with a dead battery. “Good old community policing.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Chance Palm and other units make a traffic stop at a convenience store. A female passenger is questioned being in an area known for prostitution and narcotics. “You know how that looks; it looks horrible.” She denies any untoward activity. Ofr. Palm tells the driver that “you’re either gonna become the victim of something very soon doing that or you’re up to no good…you’ve been arrested before…” Palm explains that “the female doesn’t know the driver’s name; said that he was bringing her over to get a soda. There’s a lot more to this story; you don’t just pick up random people like that, especially in that area…” The male driver apparently declines a voluntary car search. He is reluctant to exit the car when requested, but finally does so. “I need to call somebody because you’re being nasty.” The driver is detained. Ofr. Roger Lawson with his K9 called to the scene but there is no alert from a dog sniff.. Cops remove the cuffs and release the driver with a citation for apparently for a traffic infraction.
  • Indian River County, Fla.. — Dep. McKenzie conducts a traffic stop. “There’s shake scattered everywhere” in the car as well as roaches, allegedly. In a good-natured way, he tells the driver that he does not want to push the issue, and that he should clean up his car. A baby is apparently in the car.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies detain a driver outside a Waffle House after he gets out of the vehicle despite instructions to remain seated in the car.
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies investigate an alleged domestic disturbance between to men, one of whom, according to the Abrams intro, has “an axe to grind.” An officer on the scene explains that a suspect is “gonna be going to jail tonight for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. It is what it is.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Heather Smith and other cops responds to a weapons call involving a woman allegedly assaulted by her husband at a residence. Cops detain a male subject.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Roseangelica Barreto and a colleague respond to an apartment where a husband or ex-husband allegedly called 911 about his wife and the wife supposedly called 911 about herself. The officers ask the woman, who apparently is a frequent flyer, i.e., someone known to police, to come out of the apartment so they can make sure she’s okay. In a familiar OPL refrain, the woman says she consumed two beers. Dep. Barreto: “Was there a reason you called 911?” Woman: “No.” Dep. Barreto: “Okay; call us back if you need us.” There woman also says she has no need for medical attention. Dep. Barreto: “I was just informed by my zone partner that she might be under some kind of condition from her previous arrest. So we’re gonna look that up and see if it’s still valid or not.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofrs. Lee and Palm, Sgt. Marcus Booth, and many other officers investigate a possible shooting at an apartment complex. The complainant comes outside and tells officers that there is a bullet hole in his kitchen window. It turns out that it was an accidental shooting; cops question the alleged gun-owning neighbor outside. Cops enter his apartment. Ofr. Lee says that they allegedly spotted “tons of liquor bottles, empty liquor bottles” in the latter’s apartment. “Jack is his friend.” Sgt. Booth admonishes the man in the context of the importance of gun safety. Ofr Palm: “So basically, what came in as a shooting was in a sense. The gentleman upstairs in this apartment accidentally discharged his firearm, and it went down to the downstairs unit, and caused them some well-founded fears, so they called 911. He’s cooperative right now. They are trying to locate the firearm right now, and we’ll go from there. But right now, it looks like it was just an accidental discharge, and [nobody] was hurt.” Investigation ongoing. Abrams: “Well, the reporting party was right about a shot being fired.”