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

A recap of the January 6, 2024, OPL episode (OPL #02-42) 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.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for January 6, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-42)

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Eddie Lee and other units conduct a traffic stop for window tint and license plate light infractions. “You’re driving like a maniac.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Dep. Addy Perez, Sgt. Bryce Hughes, and other units pursue a possible stolen truck on the highway after an officer tried to initiate a traffic stop. Vehicle crashed out. Traffic stop at gunpoint. Occupants are apparently brother and sister. The vehicle’s front end appears wrecked after colliding with a construction tractor. Paramedics summoned to the scene. The passenger tells cops she kept telling her brother to stop. Sgt. Hughes: “Speeds were well over a hundred for most of this chase. So now both of them are in custody. Driver’s for sure definitely going to jail. We’ll see if we get any charges on the passenger as well. We’re also gonna get highway [patrol] here in order to work the accident for this part. And it’s smoking pretty bad. I can smell gas, so we’re probably gonna get Fire here too to make sure that we don’t ‘blow up.'”

Follow-up by Sgt. Hughes: “The passenger won’t have any charges right now, which is the younger sister, but he’s being charged with reckless [driving], possession of a stolen vehicle, failure to stop for blue lights and sirens, and there’s also a meth pipe found in there. So depending on the constructive control for the passenger or the driver, one of them could be facing a charge for that one as well.” Abrams: “So that is the update there…the passenger as of the now not being charged, but they will determine that drug issue.”

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Abrams update: The passenger “wasn’t facing any charges. She kept saying that she wanted to talk to a supervisor, and she didn’t do anything wrong.’ But Curtis, you got an update.” Wilson: “I do. I understand that the Richland County Sheriff’s Department is gonna get a warrant for her arrest. She went to the hospital, and they believe it was meth inside that pipe. So they’re gonna also make sure they confirm it from on the scene and then also at the Richland County Sheriff’s Department lab…” Abrams: “So the pipe — the issue there was who was in control of it. And they told us that in scene that they were gonna determine who’s in control of the pipe. It seems that they now believe it was her. Wilson: “It was the sister, so therefore, the warrant’s gonna be for her.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Cameron Blackmon responds to a car in a ditch in a residential neighborhood. The driver appears asleep. Caption: “Unconscious driver.” Cpl. Blackmon knocks on the window to try to awaken the driver. He and another cop finally get the door open with a balloon-like tool– a lockout kit according to Larkin — and without breaking the windows, and they are able to wake up the motorist. “You can’t park here.” The driver says he consumed four beers. A highway patrol officer (who stumbles during the demo) is called to the scene to conduct field sobriety testing on the driver. Car towed. Blackmon thanks the neighbors for calling the police. Blackmon explains that “there’s a lot of kids and a lot of pedestrian traffic on this roadway, so thankfully nobody got serious injured or struck today…” Abrams: “Don’t forget; they’re literally pounding on the window, and he’s not responding for a long time, so that is not gonna be helpful to him in the context of the field sobriety test, but we shall see.” Wilson: “So they’re gonna get a trooper to come out there. Typically in South Carolina, we have a lot of the departments that use…troopers to come out and do the field sobriety tests for them.” After the FST process, the driver is arrested on suspicion of DUI.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Heather Smith and Chris Mulinix, plus other units, respond to a possible burglary that may instead be a domestic issue of some kind. The residents have some difficulty unlocking their front door. After a lot of discussion about whether the male party still lives there, and other issues including whether he climbed through the window to get in, the cops advise him to go somewhere else for the night.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Brandon Ramirez responds to a domestic issue at a location that has made 24 911 calls since October. Ofr. Ramirez advises the homeowner to institute eviction proceedings in civil court against the people he wants removed from the premises, and in the meantime, warns him about a potential arrest for 911 misuse.

Ofr. Ramirez: “So he called 911 making false allegations about one his residents who he allowed to live here. This person has established residency. The other officer has been here numerous times and has told him the same exact thing, that he needs to get an eviction if he doesn’t want these people in their house. I had a feeling coming in this that there’s gonna be a civil matter. He’s definitely misusing 911…he misconstrued some of my words. I said why haven’t use just locked them out. He didn’t let me finish my sentence. So if somebody has established residency, yeah, you can lock them out, and then they have every means necessary to get back inside their house. It’s like locking your keys in your car. How do you get back in? You break the window, you use a hangar…he wasn’t listening to any sort of solutions. He just wants to complain…I really don’t know what he wants us to do. I’m not gonna go in there and start violating peoples’ rights because he just doesn’t want them there. He needs to get an eviction.” Abrams: “We’ve seen this many times where people call in, having landlord-tenant disputes, want the police to take over. Police tell them it’s a civil matter, and they get frustrated.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputies along with K9 Remington search in a wooded area for a missing man in his 50s who suffers from dementia. Abrams: “He lives with his parents. Obviously, his parents are concerned about him now. Larkin: “When an adult like this goes missing, or a child or anything like that, a lot of time numerous officers if they’re not doing something, they respond to the area, because we know how important it is to find them. And obviously there’s things like Silver Alerts, they can broadcast it out to the public as well…[a Silver Alert] is similar to an Amber Alert, it’s a missing , endangered older person, somebody [with] dementia or something like that that’s maybe out driving and never returned home or wandered away from the house.” Wilson: “And they’ll get the helicopters out and even drones as well to help assist in the search.”
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Cpl. Rebekah Smith and other deputies arrest man at an apartment complex who fled on foot from a traffic stop. Cpl. Smith: “Unfortunately for the bad guy, he gave his ID to Deputy Lopez, so we were able to confirm this is his address as well as…witnesses who [saw] him run into the address…” Drugs allegedly found in the vehicle. Abrams: “One of those split-second decisions where he said ‘you know, I’m gonna run.” Wilson: “Opportunity, ability, and jeopardy is what these criminals look for. And this guy had the opportunity, but, of course, we got him, which is a good thing.” Larkin: “The disappointing thing is he runs back to the house, tries to get other family members involved with it…they did the right thing. Turned him right over to the officers so they could get him in custody.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Tyrese Jackson investigates a domestic incident involving a couple that appear to live in a tent. Abrams points out that domestic incidents are difficult for cops to sort out as well as for the people involved.
  • Triple Play #3 — Arkansas. Larkin summarizes that the life lesson from both weekend’s episodes is simply to stop for police.
  • Coweta County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — In a heartfelt encounter which Abrams characterizes as “a truly enlightening moment,” and might have brought many OPL viewers to teares, as it were, a very compassionate Cpl. Chris Teare conducts a traffic stop for a headlight infraction and installs the new bulb for the grateful motorist. A repair facility had claimed that techs would have to remove the tire to fix the light, and as such, the repair was apparently unaffordable. Cpl. Teare: “It meant a lot to me, too, that she was happy with us being able to help her.” Abrams: “That’s awesome to be able to see that. The amazing thing is that the vast majority of police officers are gonna have multiple stores like that at some point…it’s little things that people will remember.” Wilson recalls how he changed a tire on a hot day for a female motorist on the interstate with a baby while on duty.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a report of stabbing in a residential neighborhood. A man at the scene has a wound to his arm. Cops detain a female at the scene. Paramedics called to the scene. Ofr. Smith: “So right now, we have two people involved in a domestic situation it looks like. A brother and sister — he was stabbed in the arm…sounds like he’s stable, and he’s okay. It’s just a commotion going on.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. –Det. Christian Castano conducts a traffic stop for speeding. When asked about any possible contraband in the car, the driver responds with a OPL familiar refrain “not that I know of.” Det. Castano communicates with the driver’s mom on the phone and asks her to text a pic of the registration document. The mom who apparently is the registered owner allegedly has a suspended license. The driver, who is on his way with a passenger to watch Aquaman sequel, is likely to receive just a verbal warning.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to a “stuck stuck” vehicle in the highway median. Deputies unsuccessfully try to push it out of the median. Abrams jokes that they need Sgt. Garo Brown there to push out the vehicle. Wilson: “They need some muscle power.” Along with the banter, Larkin says that “a little weight on the hood of the car, legit, if some of the officers got on there with a little weight to help tires stay seated as they were pushing it would probably help get it out.” that Dep. Perez advises that the car needs a tow and mentions to the motorist that sometimes insurance will pay for it “but you have no choice right now.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Cpl. Daniel Lambert and Dep. Hunter Rogers respond to a report of a burglary in progress or an intruder which may perhaps be some sort of family-related issue. Abrams: “And some of the facts quickly became ‘crystal’ clear.” A demonstrative male is detained at the scene who says (in another familiar OPL adage), “I didn’t do nothing.” Cpl. Lambert: “As you can see, we walked up, this guy was going crazy at the door. She claims he doesn’t live there…we’re gonna try to figure out where he lives at, why he’s in the house, and what exactly is going on with him. So right now, he got him detained in the car just for our safety, for his safety…” Dep. Rogers indicates he’ll be transported for medical evaluation and trespassed from the location
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Blackmon conducts a traffic stop on an alleged street racer. Two occupants of the stopped vehicle. He winds up giving them a break by issuing a county ordinance citation rather than a reckless driving ticket.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofrs. Lee, Ramirez, and other units respond to reports of a fight outside a movie theater and detain several teens who are trespassed from the location. Ofr. Lee: “We’re gonna get them IDed. We’re gonna contact their parents. The assistant director of this property wants them trespassed, so we’re gonna get that all handled — let them know they’re not allowed here any longer, and…if they do decide to come back here, they’ll gonna go to jail for the trespassing. And we’ll have one kid..is going to jail. He was fighting this adult behind me and refused to stop fighting even when officers arrived on scene. So he got placed into custody; he is going to jail. And it is what it is with that part, but the other half of it, they’re gonna be trespassed…” Ofr. Ramirez: “That’s a fiasco. Not as bad as some of the other ones we’ve been to here. So all the juveniles we have here detained, we got them identified, we got them trespassed. The victim over there doesn’t want to press any charges against anybody over here, so we got them identified. Once everyone was identified, they’re gonna be out on their way. If they come back here, they are gonna be arrested.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Officers including Dep. Ryan Campbell investigate some sort of alleged father-daughter domestic incident at a residence.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops and paramedics respond to a scene where a man allegedly OD’d in a driveway. The man, who “snorted something,” according to Ofr. Smith, receives Narcan but apparently declines further medical care. Smith adds that “doing a history check on him. He doesn’t have any active warrants right now. He does look like he has a drug history on him. So these officers are gonna get in contact with our Vice [unit], and then go from there, see if he’s had multiple overdoses in the past, or if he’s just been charged with possession before.” Ofr. Smith adds that “the Fire Department is saying that he understands the risks that what they gave him, Narcan, can wear off, and that he could possibly go back into the overdose. So it’s not smart in my opinion to be doing this kind of stuff, but we can’t make those decisions for people.” Abrams: “There are certain areas where the police can help and other times when they can’t.” Larkin: “Individuals need to help themselves out at times.”
  • Missing segment — Wrightsville, Pa.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Master. Dep. Tim Riley and other units make contact with a man who is sleeping in a hotel room for which he allegedly didn’t pay. “What’s up, homie?” Drugs allegedly found in the room. He allegedly paid for the room in an off-the-books deal with and employee, but is told he has to leave. Dep. Riley: “He’s not supposed to be in that room. He should have known that he has to go to the front desk to get a hotel room. He didn’t. Because of that, he’s going to jail for trespass after notice and the drugs.”

Abrams: “Putting aside the crack, all right, I felt bad for Roosevelt. Roosevelt cuts a deal with some woman at the front desk for 60 or 65 dollars…he cuts a deal, he gets a key…he saved 20 bucks, and he got arrested…but I felt a little bad for him that someone who was associated with the hotel made a deal, gave him a key, and then he gets arrested for it.” Wilson: “Not only that, but he had such a rude awakening…” Abrams expressed surprised that “no one seemed really that concerned” about the employee’s side hustle. “What?”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a possible burglary in progress and clear the home. Ofr. Smith: “She was a little bit concerned. I guess her door wasn’t shut all the way. She thought that maybe someone was inside the house. She’s had some issues in the past and recently was contacted by the person that gave her those issues. So we checked the house out; it doesn’t look like anyone’s in there or any person made forced entry in their house, so we’re gonna go on to the next call.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers and paramedics respond to accident scene involving a motorcycle and a car. Caption: “Investigating road rage.” Ofr. Lee: “What it sounds like is, I guess, she’s an Uber driver. She tried to come out of the apartment complex and stated that the motorcycle came behind her too quick… The motorcycle ended up up striking her in the rear-end quarter panel. No injuries and just minor damages to the vehicle and the motorcycle, so biggest worry is making sure everybody’s okay. Roadway’s clear, and now we’re gonna get each side of the story and try to determine who’s at fault.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies make contact with witnesses and search wooded area and outside of an apparently vacant for-sale home for evidence upon a report for shots fired.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops are dispatched to a shots-fired call and as the episode ends, the enter a house to investigate further and search for a suspect at the premises who they call upon “to make yourself known.” One of the officers loses his footing on the front steps as he enters. Ofr. Smith: “Right now, we have a, looks like, a domestic situation. We have a boyfriend — or ex-boyfriend– they own the house together. He’s supposedly still inside the house. He hit this woman in the face, and then fired off some rounds into the room that they where at…” Abrams: “Obviously, a potentially very serious situation here…unfortunately we’re out of time…”