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‘On Patrol: Live’ Recap: January 23-24, 2026, Continued

January 25, 2026 /

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

On Patrol: Live Season 4, All-New Episode, Tonight

A recap of the January 24, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 04-48) 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 analysts Curtis Wilson and Tom Rizzo, follows below.

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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On Patrol: Live Tonight

Weather-related issues (obviously) plus disturbances of various kinds dominated this all-new edition of On Patrol: Live.

In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 31 law enforcement encounters across 10 On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments on the current roster (although Knox County did not appear).

On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams at the beginning of tonight’s episode: “We are doing something tonight we have never done on this show before. What is that? We’ve got a ‘storm center’ going. The OPL storm center…it is gonna be a tough night out there for a lot of the officers…we’re gonna see some officers getting out there in sub-zero, or at least it’ll feel like sub-zero, temperatures, and serious snow….we are On Patrol: Live tonight with 10 departments around the country on an icy and brisk night…”

Dan Abrams at the end of tonight’s episode: “…we have been following weather throughout the country, and by the way, we have seen it throughout the night…where police officers were focusing more on just trying to help people who were stranded than a lot of other things that are going on out there, but I’ve finally gotten to fulfill my lifelong dream of being a meteorologist…here in the ‘storm center’…”

Programming note: See below as Dan Abrams mentions that On Patrol: Live will be live on Valentine’s Day night, February 14, and touts merchandise/swag at OPLstore.com:

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On Patrol: Live Recap for January 24, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-48)

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Dan Abrams: “This is an interesting night here at On Patrol: Live because we are focusing on a lot of law enforcement dealing with the weather across the country…we are looking at snow, we are looking at cold…”

“…on what is a very chilly and snowy night in many of the departments that we are following live –10 of them…”

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  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Attempted vehicle break-in.” Officers Jack Oberthaler and Stone York make contact with a complainant about someone allegedly trying to break in to her car. Bleeping. Cops will look in the area for a suspect.
  • Richland County, S.C. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of gun threat.” Corporal Tim Riley makes contact with the complainant and also reviews surveillance footage.

Listen below to Cpl. Riley’s preliminary summary of the incident followed by an update about the investigation:

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor assists a motorist with her vehicle stuck in snow. He gets behind the wheel briefly to get the car back on the road. Abrams: “I think we’re gonna be seeing a bunch of these kinds of calls around the country tonight.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Oberthaler, York, and other units respond to a report of an assault. They make contact with a male in an apartment building corridor. He apparently tells police that the altercation was about a compact disc (CD). Bleeping. Cops apparently also make contact with the other party or parties. The male is detained.
  • Christian County, Mo. — OPL makes a brief cutaway to Deputy Trevor Guinn driving through the heavy snow. Deputy Guinn jovially makes reference to a Millennial Falcon (see correction later) and R2-D2 from the Star Wars universe.
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Jonathan Carey and colleagues attempt to serve a feoticide warrant allegedly related to a car accident, but the subject is not there or doesn’t answer the door at an apartment complex unit. Deputies will keep trying to serve him at another time or times.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeants Marcus Booth and Christopher Maher, and other cops, respond to an urgent 911 call during which a female was allegedly heard screaming. A male is arrested on scene following an investigation and after cops obtain both sides of the story.

Listen below to Sgt. Booth’s preliminary assessment of the situation:

Listen below to Sgt. Maher’s incident recap followed by some studio commentary from Curtis Wilson (about phones equipped with a crash-detection app that could call 9111 automatically) and Tom Rizzo during which the latter laments that judges often let similar suspects go on a low bond (“…I can’t help but share that grimace on my face”):

  • Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of shots fired.” Officers Oberthaler and York, and Detectives Aaron Dudley and Steve Kucinski, respond to the scene, interact with potential witnesses, and search outside a vacant residence for evidence. Det. Kucinski: “Right now, it doesn’t look like anybody’s been shot or anything like that, so it might have just been somebody shooting off rounds, but at the least, we’re gonna try to find some shell casings. I like to find the shell casings just so that maybe if we can get a hold of them, we can see the rounds, and get them tested, and they come back to prior shootings.” Abrams: “The weather doesn’t help, right?” Rizzo: “Makes it so challenging. Any type of crime scene, management or integrity is gonna be compromised…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Lieutenant Paul Yacobozzi conducts a friendly traffic stop on a pickup truck. Lt. Yacobozzi to the driver: “I’m proud you’re able to drive a stick shift. Most kids your age don’t know how to drive a stick shift.” The driver is likely released with a warning for alleged speeding or other potential infractions.

Listen below as Lt. Yacobozzi quips in the incident summary that a stick shift is an anti-theft device:

  • Hazen, Ark. — In another weather-related incident, Chief Taylor pushes a motorist’s stuck car over to a nearby gas pump. Abrams: “He’s out; a little Hazen bump right there.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Hazen snow bump.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — An empathetic Officer Michael Siena makes contact with a homeowner in response to a call about a possible prowler. The homeowner seems to indicate that it could be some cats instead. Officer Siena checks the backyard area for any intruders.

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Daytona Beach, Fla.. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of drunk people on fire trucks.” Officers Siena (who was re-dispatched from the above call) and Jonathan Layfield, among others, respond to the scene outside a club where a large crowd has gathered including some “intoxicated people that are [allegedly] jumping on the fire apparatus.” Abrams: “You heard it there –fire department needs help.” Cops on scene “shut it down,” i.e., advise everyone to leave the location for safety reasons, because the venue is apparently deemed overcapacity “and can quickly turn into…a fire hazard.” On Patrol: Live captions: “Drunk people in pajamas,” “Crowd dispersal.” The fire marshal is summoned to the scene.

Abrams: “In just about every department we’re following tonight, they got weather problems. In Daytona Beach, they got other problems.”

Listen below to Officer Siena’s initial assessment on scene:

Officer Siena adds that “we have one of the sergeants coming by. I’m not super familiar with the process for going through all this, but there is a process, because it isn’t safe for everyone involved. They want to have a good time; totally get it. There are plenty of spaces you can go to tonight that’s not here. What they’ll have to do is get the number of people inside down to capacity. Everyone else has to leave or else someone can be shut down.”

Abrams: “Captain Rizzo, you were saying that, actually, the getting out…part is the hard part.” Rizzo: “It’s the hardest to maintain safety, to maintain peace, to make sure that nothing breaks out, because…that’s the finale, right? The decision’s been made, ‘okay, we’re not going back on it.’ Now is when emotions get over to the boiling point. If anything is gonna kick off, it’s gonna be now.”

Listen below to an additional update:

  • Triple Play #2 — a Fayette County, Ga., police pursuit of a van.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor gives a push to the same car on the way out from the gas pump from the previous encounter. On Patrol: Live caption: “Hazen snow bump — take 2.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn provides an update on road conditions: “The governor declared a state of emergency for this state…I think last time I checked, negative seven degrees out. Looks like everyone’s traveling okay….we’ve been up and down this road, and we haven’t had any slide-offs…Dispatch hasn’t notified us of any slide-offs, so I think a lot of people are staying home, so that’s a god thing. So we’re just making sure everybody’s safe. And if they are stranded, we’ll let them jump in the car for a bit, warm up, until they get a ride on. We’re just glad that no one’s really hurt right now, and everybody just needs to really stay home…and staying warm.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Detective Joshua Dennis, Corporal Wendy George, and Officer Christopher Coleman, among others, investigate a shots-fired incident at or outside a residence.

Listen below to Officer Coleman’s preliminary recap:

  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams prologue: “Deputies pulled over a car: Inside was a small mountain of junk as well as a large mountain of Dew.” Watch the video clip below as Master Deputy Jerry Cullen and other cops, including Master Deputy Collins Harper, make a traffic stop for an alleged stolen tag [or stolen car], which turns out to instead be a purported “kind of a breach of trust.” Car search. “Jiminy Christmas, man: There’s a lot of junk in here.” Both occupants arrested per Deputy Cullen’s recap below.

Listen below to Curtis Wilson address the items allegedly found in the vehicle such as the copper, and then the panel banters about the Mountain Dew containers:

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Lt. Yacobozzi provides backup on a traffic stop. Another deputy administers field sobriety testing on a male driver. On scene, Corporal Andy Gonzalez detains a female passenger who appears to allegedly interfere with the potential DUI investigation. Lt. Yacobozzi explains to the cooperative driver that he’ll issue a couple of minor traffic tickets to him, and then Cpl. Gonzalez explains to the man that his wife may get cited and released rather than taken to jail.

Listen below as Lt. Yacobucci explains that someone stepping in front of a dash-cam could purportedly cause evidentiary issues:

Abrams: “This guy doing exactly the opposite of what his wife did, but ‘we got ourself into trouble,’ and he’s pretty close to getting her out of it. We shall see. At least a lot of it.”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Dudley and Kucinski make a routine well-being check on a pedestrian who impressively demonstrates a Taekwondo or Tai Chi kata/form. On Patrol: Live caption: “Tae-kwon-snow.”

#OPNation may recall that somewhat similar martial arts demos have separately occurred during On Patrol: Live episodes in Fullerton, Calif, on October 6, 2023, and in Lee County, Fla., on February 24, 2024.

  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn provides another road update and corrects the record about the previous Star Wars comment: “…on U.S. Highway 65…thank you everybody for correcting me on the Star Wars. I understand it’s the Millennium Falcon. Sorry for getting that wrong, but thanks for everybody for letting me know…I am a somewhat Star Wars fan; probably not the biggest Star Wars fan like some of you out there. So it definitely looks like a joyride in the Millennium Falcon down 65 Highway here in Christian County. It is coming down hard, and…feels like negative 10 degrees , and we’re trying to survive phase two.” Abrams: “Deputy Guinn, welcome to my world of being corrected when I say something that’s a little bit off. Our audience makes sure that I know it, though, because #OPNation is on it.”

Deputy Guinn subsequently spots a car that slid off the roadway and makes sure that no one there needs help. No one is inside the vehicle. Deputy Guinn: “Looks like…someone’s already checked on it, and just want to make no one’s just sitting in there…five, six inches of snow on the ground, maybe. The highway is just completely covered. You can’t even tell [there’s] a lane or the rumble strips or anything. So we’re just trying to make sure that everybody’s not stranded on the side of the road. Crazy to think that we’re walking on a U.S. highway right now where I’ve patrolled many years, and people do 100 miles per hour down this highway when there’s not snow on. So I’m glad that most of the people are staying home and staying safe right now because it is…dangerous out right now…we’re gonna keep on moving, and hopefully…we find no other vehicles for the night. That would be good.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Mike Knapp, with Deputy Jacob Sahagian as backup, makes a traffic stop. Deputy Knapp to the driver: “What’s in the center console there?…the bag of dope…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Methamphetamine found.” Tag lights are out. No license. Abrams: “So that guy sort of laying out in detail exactly what he had and why he had it.”

Listen below to Deputy Knapp outline the alleged charges against the motorist; the deputy also claims that the motorist has been deported twice:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Triple Play #3 — A Nacogdoches County, Tex., police pursuit.
  • Christian County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Vehicle assist.” Deputy Guinn uses the rubber push bumper on his police cruiser to successfully move a car up a hill that was stuck in the snow up, thereby saving the driver and the occupants a purported $800 fee for a tow.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Christopher Coleman makes a brief traffic stop for alleged erratic driving or the equivalent (“he is kind of all over the place…”). Officer Coleman quickly releases the driver, who produces his license, registration, and insurance documentation, after making contact to make sure he’s okay.
  • BOLO segment — Queens, New York City, home invaders.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Colin Davis initiates a traffic stop on a vehicle with the hazard lights on (“they’ve been driving kind of weird…”). He makes friendly contact with the motorist. The car is riding on a front passenger side rim and appears to have front-end damage. As standard procedure, the deputy notifies the state highway patrol to potentially investigate further

Listen below to Deputy Davis mention the possibility of a hit-and-run accident and an intoxicated driver:

  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn makes friendly contact with homeowners to make sure a bonfire is a controlled burn. “You got some s’mores?” Abrams: “I guess that’s one way to stay warm when it’s negative 10 degrees outside.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Lt. Yacobozzi and other units are on scene outside a hotel where an unintended, parked and locked rental car is idling for three or four hours. They locate the driver who comes out and shuts the car off. In a conversation with the driver, Lt. Yacobozzi admits that he’s done the same thing with his personal vehicle: “It’s a push to start. You might not be used to it. I’m like, I can relate..”.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Bradly Brown spots an alleged stolen vehicle parked at a gas station/convenience store, according to Abrams, “with the suspects conveniently right outside the car.” The driver and passenger on scene are detained. Drug paraphernalia allegedly found in the car. Corporal Rachel Salka is also on scene.

Listen below to the deputies summarize the stop:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Responding to domestic incident.” Officers Siena and Layfield, among other cops, make contact with vocal male outside a residence. “I want my phone right now.” They also make contact with the other party. Cops advise the man to go home. See Officer Layfield’s incident summary in the video clip below:
  • Toledo, Ohio — Detectives Dudley and Kucinski on a traffic stop. The driver is detained. A crack pipe is allegedly spotted in the car door. Car search. Watch Det. Kucinski’s initial incident summary in the video clip above.
  • Hazen, Ark. — As the episode concludes, Chief Taylor is on scene to provide roadside assistance where an 18 wheeler appears stuck in the snow.
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-47, January 23, 2026.

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2 Comments

  1. Brian Nearey

    Once again,my friend,your dedication and work ethic brings yet another amazing recap of our favorite show. Thank you so much.

    • Robert Jonathan (Post author)

      Thanks Brian for being a steadfast reader of the recaps!

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