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A recap of the January 17, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 04-46) on Reelz, which also streams, e.g., on Peacock, as anchored in the Jersey City, N.J., studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams along with studio analysts Tom Rizzo and Sean Larkin, follows below. Curtis Wilson has the weekend off.

As #OPNation (i.e., the show’s fandom) is well aware, and for those viewers and/or social media users new to the show, On Patrol Live is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

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An intense Baton Rouge police pursuit and domestic incidents of various kinds generally formed the dominant themes of this all-new episode of On Patrol: Live.

In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 20 law enforcement encounters across 10 On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments on the current roster including the Knox County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office (although neither Berkeley Count nor Christian County appeared).

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On Patrol: Live Recap for January 17, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-46)

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  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “In pursuit of snowmobile.” As the show opens (see video clip below), Detectives Aaron Dudley and Nate Insley pursue the snowmobile operator. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “Well, this is a first.”

Listen below as Detective Dudley provides a detailed update on the snowmobile suspect:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Responding to domestic stabbing.” Deputy Desmond Whitson and other units converge on a home where someone was supposedly stabbed in the eye. Cops make contact with several persons on scene. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating fight.” It turns out that no one was stabbed.

Listen below as Deputy Whitson explains a fight allegedly occurred between roommates and a tenant, and that local police will take over the investigation:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Danny Brown, Master Deputy Justin Jeffcoat, and other units respond to a disturbance between two cars. Police stop both vehicles and detain a male and a female. Bleeping. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating dispute involving gun.” The female allegedly brandished a weapon in the incident. According to Cpt. Brown (listen to the audio clips below for details), the altercation may have resulted from the female finding out that the male was ” out running around” with another woman.

Listen below to updates from Cpt. Brown on the investigation (“…obviously these two know each other somehow…we got a call that she was ramming his car…”):

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Sergeant Jordon Lear and Corporal Brett Usey initiate a traffic stop outside a convenience store allegedly for a lights issue and an expired tag. Open container allegedly spotted. On Patrol: Live caption: “Failure to identify.” A male passenger provides his actual name after allegedly giving police a false name.

Sgt. Lear to subject: “Either tell me your name or your under arrest…I’m not gonna sit around and play this with you, okay? We got better things to do. The problem is, you probably got a misdemeanor warrant in some other city that we don’t give a sh*t about. Unless you killed somebody, we don’t really bring people to jail for bullsh*t warrants, so get it over with. Tell us who you are…”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Jeffcoat is re-dispatched from the above to call to a home invasion. He makes contact with the residents to gather information about what happened; the suspects, who allegedly pilfered two safes from the house, had already left the scene. According to Deputy Jeffcoat, the suspects kicked in the front door, took two safes, and left in an unidentified vehicle.

Listen below to analyst Sean Larkin on the On Patrol: Live studio panel discuss this incident following the deputy’s comments after Abrams claims that “if that turns out to be true that two safes were stolen in that house, you got to believe it’s likely that the people who came in there probably knew that they were there”):

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor makes a friendly traffic stop on a highway. No plates; no insurance. The driver, who provides the chief with a narrative, is traveling from California to Maine. A little bit of weed is allegedly in the car. Vehicle search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Vehicle search.” The chief ultimately lets her go with a warning to promptly obtain liability insurance via a phone app and also to get rid of the weed.

Listen below to the chief briefly discuss this stop:

Chief Taylor: “I don’t know; I’m soft. That’s it.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Richie Maher backs up Detective Ray Hurst on a traffic stop at a gas station/convenience store. The driver appears somewhat argumentative. Bleeping. K9 Detective Roger Lawson deploys K9 Ali for a vehicle sniff, but no alert, and thus no probable cause for a car search. Sergeant James Maher, Richie’s brother, is also on scene. Abrams: “…we don’t know exactly why that guy was stopped in the first place or why they approached him. If we find that out, we will certainly let you know.” Traffic tickets issued, and the driver is released.

Listen below for Lt. Maher’s explanation for the stop and the citations during which he mentions the relevant, precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court case of Pennsylvana v. Mimms):

Abrams: “And I’m sure him not being particularly cooperative at the beginning did not help his case either.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Triple Play #2 — A Tulsa, Okla., area police pursuit of a sleeping driver.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Dudley and Insley conducts a traffic stop for a revoked license. The driver vehemently disagrees that his license is revoked.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — At a gas station/convenience store, Sgt. Lear and Cpl. Usey make a traffic stop on a truck for a brake light out and an expired tag. The driver is released with a warning. Abrams: “That is quite a vehicle.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “That harness is in there with the alligator clips; that’s fine.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Dudley and Insley make a traffic stop for expired tags. The driver is subsequently released with no charges.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — On Patrol: Live caption: “In pursuit.” Sgt. Lear, Cpl. Usey, and other units chase a fleeing vehicle, which subsequently spins out. A brief foot pursuit ensues; the driver is tased and subdued. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspects in custody.” A gun is allegedly found in the car. After Sgt. Lear questions the passenger, the man is released with no charges. Paramedics summoned to the scene for Cpl. Usey who popped some stitches that he received from a prior incident. The incident results in several updates as embedded below.

Listen below to Cpl. Usey and Sgt. Lear on scene discuss this incident:

Listen below as Sgt. Lear mentions that “he put a lot of lives in jeopardy for some pretty ridiculous stuff, but, hey, I guess you got a little bit of justice by ‘going swimming’ in a cold night.” Back in the studio, Sean Larkin explains that cops are searching the nearby lake for a machine gun conversion device called an auto sear:

Abrams: “It sounds like the passenger in that vehicle is likely gonna get cut loose. And it’s always interesting after a pursuit like this where they talk to the passenger, a lot of questions about ‘were you forced to stay there?’, the potential of a kidnapping charge, et cetera, but it doesn’t seem like any of that [unintelligible]” Larkin: “Right…if you’re a passenger in a pursuit, you don’t bail out and run, you don’t have outstanding warrants, there’s not something in the car that’s gonna tied back to you…you’d be good. You can go free.”

Abrams update: “Remember after the pursuit, they were talking to the passenger from that vehicle? Sergeant Lear was awaiting clarification on the gun before releasing the passenger. Well, the gun came back to the driver, who was also a convicted felon. And so the passenger was released with no charges.”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor makes a traffic stop on the highway for alleged speeding (96 mph in a 75-mph zone). The chief and the cooperative driver discuss the items that are in the car. The chief examines the documentation for same. Chief Taylor calls the local prosecutor for advice on how to proceed, which results in a car search. Chief Taylor confiscates alleged boxes of Delta-8, which apparently is illegal in Arkansas. Ticket issued for speeding.

Listen below to some of the chief’s interaction with the driver about the inventory:

Tom Rizzo: “There’s so many different types of marijuana products now, so anything that has THC would classify as marijuana products, and Delta 8, it’s one of of the many. And clearly, like we just talked about last night, here’s this guy comes into Arkansas. It’s all legal, so it’s all fair game….delivering it, however, he’s possessing it, no bueno.” Abrams: “We shall see what happens there.”

Abrams: “Wow; that’s a lot of stuff.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Triple Play #3 — a Hot Spring County, Ark., motorcycle pursuit. Larkin: “State police encountered a young man who was trying to ‘fence’ a motorcycle, literally.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of verbal threat.” Detectives Dudley and Insley, plus other officers, are on scene. The detectives make contact with the complainants at their home to gather information and then go next door to get the neighbor’s side of the story. The neighbor apparently does not answer the door, however, so the situation is inconclusive. Report to be filed. Abrams: “Sounds like not much more they can do there, right?” Larkin: “Not at all.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Alexander Chami and other units detain a bicyclist in connect with an investigation about someone allegedly pulling on car-door handles.
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams prologue: “Deputies attempted to take a ‘bite out of crime’ after a woman took a bite out of her fiancé.” Deputy Brandon Perez and other units respond to an alleged domestic incident in which a woman allegedly bit her boyfriend’s nose. Paramedics summoned, but the male declines treatment. After an investigation, police determine that the woman allegedly was the primary aggressor and arrest her on domestic violence-related charges.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Jack Oberthaler and Stone York, among others, respond to a report of shots fired. On Patrol: Live caption: “Guns drawn.” They make contact with two occupants of a car parked outside a residence; the driver is very vocal. Both occupants are released after an investigation.

Listen below to Officer Oberthaler explain the reason for the stop:

Officer Oberthaler adds that “basically, unrelated argument. He’s just honking his horn trying to get the attention to his people that were in the house. We’re letting him go, because he said he lives here, so just gonna let him go inside.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — In the video clip below, Officer David Calhoun and a colleague conduct a traffic stop. The driver allegedly has a warrant plus a suspended license. Car search. Drugs allegedly found. The passenger apparently does not have a valid license either. Car towed.
  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of gun threat.” Officers Oberthaler and York respond to a domestic incident at a residence and conduct an investigation. As Officer Oberthaler explains below, a gun may not have been involved in an argument. Plus, both parties live there, and both want to stay on the premises, and “we can’t really do to much with telling people to leave their own home.”
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-45, January 16, 2026.