A recap of the January 27, 2024, OPL episode (OPL #02-48) 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 Lt. John Curley (ret.) of the Warwick, R.I., PD., follows.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for January 27, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-48)

  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cpl. Brandon Ramek and other officers respond to a report of a man with gun walking around a known gang area. Ramek pursues and tackles one man who was s running away. Caption: “Suspect in custody.” Four other men detained nearby.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Hannah Reed investigate and armed robbery at a liquor store by two suspects. OPL airs the security footage that the officers review. K9s deployed. The employee at the cash register was unable to determine if the suspects fled on foot or in a car because the store windows do not provide a view. Cops have a description of what they were wearing, however. Wilson comments on the weapons: “Looks like an AR and also a Mac-10…heavy firepower for doing an armed robbery like this.” As far the canine track is concerned, Lt. Hurley explains that “typically in a situation like this, sometimes suspects will shed clothes. So maybe…the dogs trying to pick article recovery, and hopefully if you can find where those clothes are….any clue, and it lead you in a direction at least where the suspects may have kept going.” Investigation ongoing.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Bryson Fowler attempt a traffic stop on a Mustang for several traffic infractions. The motorist initially pulls over but then drives off. An extensive chase ensues. The front left tire on the vehicle eventually goes flat. The driver jumps out of the vehicle, prompting a foot pursuit. Car search. K9 deployed. The driver, who says he was “scared,” is subsequently located an and taken into custody. Abrams: “And it also, by the way, looks like they found a lot of cash on this guy. They are still chronicling exactly what they found.”

Lt. Curley: “Great communication. Let dispatch know exactly what he has so other officers are aware as well…” Abrams: “I believe it’s a Mustang, so that’s gonna be a fast car.” Dep. Wilson: “It’s going to be a tough one to keep up with, but again, you know when John’s talking about communication, it lets the other officers know especially the direction and the rate of speed that this guy is going so they can actually try to get to that area and locate this vehicle…”

Abrams: “That vehicle hit the rail, and that immediately disabled the vehicle, but the guy got out there, and John Curley, you were talking about what Corporal Bryson Fowler can and can’t do in the immediate moment that guy runs. Curley: “It’s tough; obviously he wants to keep chasing him, right? But he also has to maintain that scene, so he’s got to stay put. I’m sure it’s killing him right now that he couldn’t go face that suspect, but that’s how it goes.” Wilson: “They’ve got to figure out exactly where he jumped out, of course, and then set up that perimeter to go after this guy pretty much. Curley: “And I would say this gentleman’s got to be familiar with the area, he knew what he was gonna do…”

Cpl. Fowler: “So I stopped this car for multiple moving violations. He decided today that he didn’t want to stop for the police. When I approached the vehicle, he put the car in gear and took off on me. That’s a common tactic that they do. They wait for you to get to the car and then they take off…he hit the median about a mile back. I saw a car kind of veer out of the way when he hit it. I don’t know if he hit the other car or not, but he did hit the median, almost disabled his front tire. And in the midst of him slowing down, I guess he jumped to the passenger seat…I wasn’t able to pursue him with my foot due to the vehicle still rolling. I had to stay with the vehicle. North Charleston [PD] K-9 is gonna be tracking for him right…and then I’m going to clear the car and see why he ran.” Lt. Curley: “It’s a tough spot for Corporal Fowler for a variety of reasons, but he’s focused on that car. It’s very unorthodox for somebody to jump out of the passenger side of a car after pursuit, so he’s locked on the car tactically trying to get ready for what could be coming next, and out the passenger side he goes.”

Cpl. Fowler explains that the man is allegedly about if facing about four or five charges, including for 39 grams of weed, failure to stop for blue warrants, a warrant from another agency for obstruction, Berkeley County warrants for a traffic offense, and possibly other charges from the state highway patrol. Abrams: “So he seemed remorseful there, but you have to remember that he was driving 125 miles per hour. And now we learn about these other warrants as well.” Curley” Good to remorseful, but a little too late for that.” Abrams: “He’s talking about his daughter’s birthday coming up tomorrow.” Wilson: “But he’s a runner. You heard earlier, too. that he’s been running from the other ones.” Abrams: “Yeah, so he’s not gonna be getting out for his daughter’s birthday.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Marcus Booth kindly consoles a driver, age 92, who was in a minor accident with a police cruiser in which she allegedly bump the tire of the latter vehicle. Booth even reprograms her car radio. Abrams points out that we all have elderly relatives who need some help with technology. Sgt. Booth: “I feel bad for her. She’s sweet as can be, so we’ll get her report done, and get her out of here.” Abrams: “She had a little accident with a police car, and she ended up with a tech update from Sgt. Booth who help her figure out some of the items that she says were changed when she took her car in.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Brandon McKenzie makes contact with a man who is on the his back on the ground who Abrams claims “seemed to be inebriated.” The officer helps him get on his feet. Officers say they are detaining him for his own safety pending the arrival of paramedics.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Ofrs. Jason Coleman and Gharrett Wiltse make contact with a older man on a report of someone allegedly waving a knife. The subject is taken down and detained after noncompliance with officers’ orders. “I’m not resisting.”

Abrams: “What was good about what we saw there is the moment they have him in cuffs, everyone steps back and relaxes, right? And that’s the key, I would assume, in terms of how you deal with a situation and take someone down.” Curley: “The professionalism was certainly there. They did what they needed to do. They did it the right way, and they got the scene under control.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Robert Mowery and other units respond to a disturbance on a bus in which a passenger was stabbed in the neck. K9 deployed to search for a suspect. The latter is detained nearby. A weapon is also found. Ofr. Mowery: The suspect “is gonna be transported, and detectives are going to have a talk with him, and the investigation is gonna continue from there. But he’s going to go to jail for at least the aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and whatever else he may have. He may have a warrant or whatever the case is, but that’s going to wrap it up here.” Abrams: “So you got a lot of pieces of evidence that came together here. You got the white jacket. You got the actual knife. And so they’re gonna bring this together even though the guy is saying–he’s not even denying it was him really. Curley: “Another great use of the canine. A great tool and a great resource.” Wilson: “And that bus video is also going to help with the story.” Abrams: “And that’ll go to even if the guy claims, ‘well, you know, I was defending myself’ — it will all be on video.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Capt. Danny Brown conducts a traffic stop for speeding and using high beams. Capt. Brown smells weed. The driver admits to having a gun (in the glovebox) but allegedly admits that he doesn’t have his permit with him. Probable cause car search. Cops allegedly find weed in two plastic containers. Gun, which was carried lawfully, is seized because of the drugs, according to Capt. Brown. He also mentions that “he will be going to jail tonight.” Brown adds that “he won’t get an unlawful carry unless he’s got a previous charge.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Reed races to a car accident scene in which a car struck a pedestrian.
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Cpl. Eric Freeland conducts a traffic for failure to maintain lane. The chatty driver says “I’m not drunk; I don’t even drink…I stopped drinking wo years ago.” She speaks about numerology and other topics directly to the OPL camera. Ultimately, she is released with just a ticket. Abrams: She makes money because people love her. I want that job. I don’t have that thing you need for that job. I’m just saying, it would be a great job.” Wilson: “It would be.” Curley: “Wouldn’t be terrible.” Wilson: I don’t know how much you’d make though.” Abrams: Curley would make a lot; everybody loves Curley.”
  • Triple Play #3 — Greendale, Wis.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Dan Abrams announces that the Hazen PD is returning to On Patrol Live starting next weekend now that hunting season is over. (There are no police services in Hazen during hunting season?)
  • Indian River County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. McKenzie assists Dep. Mike Ruiz in a traffic stop with a driver, age 75, undergoing field sobriety testing. Abrams introduces the segment by saying that “a woman celebrating a big milestone ended her evening with something she’ll unfortunately never forget.” Dep. McKenzie: “She drank too much to celebrate her birthday this evening so she’ll be transported to the…jail…for suspicion of DUI. With all the different Uber, Lyft, the different services we have, there’s kind of no excuses for anyone to be out here drinking and driving, putting the public in danger.” Abrams: “She blew a .08 at the jail, which is just over the legal limit. She called a friend to care of the dogs.”
  • #CurleyQs — John Curley OPL audience Q&A.
  • Missing Update and new Missing segment.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Responding to a noise complaint, Capt. Brown asks the residents of an apartment to lower the music volume. One of the occupants wonders “is this Live PD?” Brown also claims that he smells weed in the apartment.
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  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to a residential burglary call and make contact with the complainant.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Reed and other units respond to a shots-fired call near a house that may involve an attempted-murder suspect.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Booth conducts a traffic stop for speeding on an aerospace engineering student, age 18.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) –Officers of a report of disturbance between exes involving a male allegedly using a golf club as a weapon. Cops make a traffic stop on a subject in a truck. They get both sides of the story. The male claims that the woman tried to run him over.

Ofr. Thomas Goble: “So it looks like we found our golf club that was used as far as the vandalism portion of our investigation. Got some obvious damage on it and it looks like the actual head of it’s been broken off. So right now our investigation is leading us more towards what the female is saying happened. They both admitted that they were in an altercation in reference to some relationship issues. We’ve got evidence to support that her vehicle was vandalized by this golf club. He’s got glass all over his clothes and all over his hair. He’s gonna be charged with felony vandalism today. He’s gonna have some additional battery charges as well. They have been in a long-term dating relationship so it is going to be domestic. So he’s not going to have a bond. He’s going to have to speak to a judge to get all this stuff taken care of, that first appearance.” Abrams: “So they got to follow the evidence here, and initially it seemed that they were believing his account, and then they look at the injuries and they’re like, oh wait a sec, maybe this is something different.” Curley: “It tends to tell a different story. But that’s why they interview both parties and examine all the evidence before they before they make any conclusions. Abrams: “And that’s why physical evidence becomes that much more important, right? Because when you got two parties saying very opposite things, you got to look at what is it that we can actually use here.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Both, Sgt. Mike Bryant, and multiple other units detain a man at gunpoint at a gunpoint who allegedly threatened someone with a knife.

Sgt. Booth: “So obviously, when we got here, we had some guys and gals down on the ground there, looking up when we got here initially. They said he was chasing someone through the parking lot. Obviously, we checked around, didn’t see him. So, officers down there look up at his apartment, see some strobes coming from him, coming from his apartment, which is pretty conducive to weapon-mounted lights. So, obviously, we make our way up here. He keeps opening his door, strobing it down at the officers. He actually makes his way out. Once he makes his way out, order him down, lay him on the ground. There’s some weapons down there. It looks like possibly a taser and an ASP. So, hopefully, we’re going to get enough to protect this guy tonight and at least get him a mental evaluation.” Abrams: “We heard a reference to an ASP there. Wilson: “Right. An ASP baton is something that we use like a baton. It flexes out so that we can use it as our use-of-force continuum. Something so that we don’t have to go deadly.” Abrams: “And we were watching there, a moment we saw two lights on his back when he was on the ground.” Curley: “Taser. That’s your aiming point for a taser. Where that red dot is helps you identify where the spread’s gonna be, on that suspect, so huge help to those officers.” Abrams: “And he seems to have a taser, too, which is odd, We shall see.”

Sgt. Bryant: “So this is where we get down to brass tacks, right, and we start putting the velvet gloves on. We have people who are terrified of this person, right? But they have to live here, right. So what do you do in that situation. You slow everything down; you reassure them. We’re getting ready to interview this gentleman. His family are in fear for their lives; it’s obvious. So we’re going to talk to him, see if we can’t get the facts of the matter. And if they’re victims, he’s going to jail for a pretty serious felony tonight. So let’s see what he says.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Jacob Sahagian arrests a couple outside a bar after one or both were trespassed from the location and both had repeated warnings to leave the premises. Abrams: “That was totally avoidable.” Curley: “I don’t understand what he was thinking. He had umpteen opportunities to go home and go take care of those kids, so did she, but instead…” Abrams: “He could have just walked off the property, said ‘officer, I’m gonna walk with you off the property, and could you please now give me my keys.'”

Dep. Sahagian update: The husband’s going to jail for trespass after warning after 25 times. Female’s going to jail for resisting arrest as we all got to see and along with trespass after warning. And they both were formally trespassed…And the kids do have somebody to go with right now which was also another thing we had to figure out what we were going to do with. So they got permission to go with the cousins that were here…We’re gonna go to Marceno Motel, and we’re gonna actually end up transporting her. She’s keeping cool right now, but we are going to transport them both as disorderly because they do want to resist…Abrams: “A reference there to the sheriff, Carmen Marceno, from the Marceno Motel. And now their kids are going home with cousins — late at night — because they both refused to comply with the order to leave the premises.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cops conduct a friendly traffic stop at a gas station and require one of the occupants to pour out an open container. The man asks the OPL audience to “follow me on Instagram; I’m a rapper.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Capt. Brown makes a friendly traffic stop on a motorist for no lights. He also meets the driver’s dog. Caption: “Who has the better sense of smell?”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Cpls. Ramek and Alexa Elkabbara respond to confusing situation and interact with two apparently arguing females on a report that a man supposedly left the premises to allegedly get a gun.