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‘On Patrol: Live’ Recap: July 18-19, 2025, Continued

July 20, 2025 /

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

On Patrol: Live Season 4: A recap of the July 19, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 04-04) on Reelz, anchored in the NYC studio by attorney and host/executive producer Dan Abrams along with On Patrol: Live analyst Tom Rizzo, follows below. For those new to the show, On Patrol Live is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

With co-host Curtis Wilson taking the weekend off, Monroe, La., PD cops Scotty Sadler and Serenity Smith are in the studio this weekend to provide commentary and analysis.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

For this On Patrol: Live episode guide covering 26 law enforcement incidents (with a connection to the iconic Breaking Bad TV series) and nine scheduled agencies, now including Baton Rouge PD, read on for details. Note: Knox County did not appear in this episode. Also, during a Q&A, Sergeant Sadler said that Monroe PD would return to the On Patrol: Live roster “hopefully soon.”

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On Patrol: Live Recap for July 19, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-04)

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  • Richland County, S.C. (just before air) — Alluding to an alleged “suspicious person, Master Deputy Justin Jeffcoat makes contact with a loquacious pedestrian on the side of the road. On Patrol: Live caption: “Does this story ever end?” The man has some blood on his fingers and declines an ambulance. Deputy Jeffcoat: “Apparently, almost got hit by a car down the road…and he’s got a cut on his hand, but he refused EMS, and he’s going back to work.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Trevor Guinn and other units respond to a residence on an anonymous call about a man allegedly making violent threats. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “The guy has a lot of warning signs here. An active warrant. He allegedly pointed a shotgun at someone yesterday, and they are reporting that he is being violent again today. So as you can see there, the officers taking great care and time before going in.” Cops make contact with a woman at the home who apparently says the subject is not there. Deputy Guinn moves on to other calls, but other officers may continue to investigate.

According to Deputy Guinn in the audio clip below, the subject is on the lake, “and it doesn’t seem like there’s a threat here.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo and panelists then add some commentary:

  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Justin Sternberg makes contact with three occupants of a disabled vehicle. After checking IDs, it turns out that one of them has a warrant and is taken into custody. On Patrol: Live caption: “Drugs found.” The weepy subject: “It’s not mine.” Sergeant Sternberg: “Whose it is then?…it’s in your shorts. It’s in your pocket.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — For safety reasons, Chief Bradley Taylor stands by as a motorist changes a tire on the side of the road. “I’m gonna keep everybody off of you, okay?” Abrams: “A lot of pressure to have the chief there examining your tire-changing skills.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Ryan Lineberger makes a friendly traffic stop for potential lights infractions. At first, the driver accidentally hands the deputy his Chase credit card instead of license. Warning only is likely.
  • Moore, Okla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Koalten Kellor and other units respond to a location on a domestic incident where, according to Abrams, “two family members found themselves involved in a political fight, literally.” The first man claims hat he’s an experienced boxer with “crazy hands.” The second man says “our main beef is that I’m a Democrat. He’s a Republican. We don’t get along.” After mediating the situation with both males and separating them for the night, Officer Kellor is re-dispatched to the same location for perhaps round two of the alleged “donkey and elephant fight going on over here.” One of the males allegedly bit the other on a nipple. After the follow-up investigation, Officer Kellor asserts that “Just drinking a little too much cheep beer and having political differences, I guess.” No charges.

Listen to audio of the incident followed by some studio commentary (Abrams: “And the part that struck me was that ‘Crazy Hands’ ended up biting…” Rizzo: “…maybe he came close, and his inner Mike Tyson came out.. Officer Smith: “Hopefully, the other boob isn’t bitten by the time they come back.”

“Just drinking a little too much cheep beer and having political differences, I guess.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Jeffcoat disperses a group of hot rods outside a business. “They’re all pretty respectful. They’re just gonna move their cars and go on their way. That way we don’t have any problems.”
  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Ethan Holmes and colleagues detain an alleged shoplifter outside a Target store. Officer Holmes: “So this guy’s still in the store. I guess he entered the store shirtless, pulled a shirt of the rack, put it on, ripped the tag off. Now he’s picked up a backpack and possibly put some trading cards in it. They said he might be walking towards the front, so we’re gonna wait on him to come out, and then contact him from there.” No ID. Potential charges: alleged petit larceny and possession of drug paraphernalia
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant Marcus Booth patrols the Main Street downtown area during Rum Fest (Abrams: “It’s always some sort of fest there”) and asks some revelers for food recommendations. Separately, a woman apparently tries to flash the On Patrol: Live camera. Abrams reacts: “Whoa…they have a pirate parade there during Rum Fest in addition to a ‘show and tell’… Rizzo: “No bites?”

“They have a pirate parade there during Rum Fest in addition to a ‘show and tell.'”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeant James Maher and VCAT pursue and detain an irate man on alleged felony warrants. Drugs allegedly found. “Time to go to jail.”

Listen to some of the audio of this incident after which Sergeant Sadler asserts that “typically we see that a lot. It’s like the louder they get, they think I’m convincing the cop that it’s really not mine…but that’s why he ran in the first place. And then he immediately stopped when he discarded it, thinking it’s out of sight…” Abrams: “That’s where I could see an Officer Serenity Smith saying ‘why are you yelling?’ You’re not helping the situation.”

  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Sternberg and other units respond to a call about alleged public intoxication and make contact with a male. Sgt. Sternberg: “A reporting party called in saying there was a male who earlier in the day was stabbed several times is now in the parking lot drinking beer and blaring music.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of drunk man stabbed.” Subject:” I don’t want to be on the Ring camera.”

Abrams: “Is it bad that I’m hoping that they cut this guy a break if he actually got stabbed earlier today, and he’s having a few drinks in the parking lot? It’s been a rough day…we shall see, because again, sometimes these reports are not necessarily accurate…” After cops make contact, Abrams observes that “it seems he may be able to end up going back to his apartment. We will see.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Triple Play #3 — A Fond du Lac, Wisc., pursuit. Abrams: “It took me a second there. He was faking getting tased or, like, faking some sort of, like, seizure, right?”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Jeffcoat is flagged down by an older female at a gas station possibly in connection with some kind of disturbance. The deputy also makes contact with an older male on a moped who may or may not be involved.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor makes a friendly traffic stop for alleged speeding. Chief Taylor: “She’s begging for a warning.” Abrams: “She said she hadn’t gotten a ticket in over year. Chief…Taylor was going back to check that. It sounded like if she was telling the truth, he might just give her a warning because she was begging for a warning.” Warning indeed is issued after the chief determines that the driver’s last ticket occurred in 2023. Driver: “Am I gonna be on TV?” Taylor: “I doubt it. You never know…they’re doing a documentary…” Perhaps satirically, Chief Taylor seems wary of issuing a ticket to a nurse.

Listen to Office Smith humorously weigh in on whether a warning should issue (“she keeps playing with the Lord, and she keeps speeding…”):

Listen to some of the interaction after which Chief Taylor admits that “as much as I crash sometimes, I don’t want to wake up in the hospital when I look up, she’s the one standing over me. She’d be like, “you remember me, Mr. Taylor?” Abrams: “That is exactly what Tom Rizzo and Scotty Saddler were talking about, right?”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant Keme Okoya detains and subdues a resisting pedestrian who may have allegedly been involved in a theft. The suspect is arrested. Sgt. Okoya: “We got facial recognition. We positively identified him, and he gave a false name, so he’ll definitely be going to jail today for shoplifting, resisting arrest, and providing a false name to law enforcement.”

Sgt. Okoya adds that “it’s simple — he just stole a sandwich…seven dollars and 59 cents. Now he’s going to jail for shoplifting, resisting, and failing to provide your name to law enforcement, all for seven dollars and 59 cents.” Abrams: “And it seemed he took a big bite of the evidence, right, as the officer approached him.” Rizzo: “Took a bite out of the crime.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Chris Johnson and other units, including Lieutenant Christian Stearley and Sergeant Iesha Johnson, make contact with a male pedestrian who allegedly tosses a bag as cops arrive on scene. The man has a warrant. Drug paraphernalia allegedly found. “Congratulations; you win. You’re going to jail.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Abram: “I was only joking that he was gonna say that’s not my bag, but I guess he’s saying it’s not his bag.” Rizzo: “Scotty called it…” Abrams: “But not usually when they arrive to watch someone throw a black bag. Usually they missed it, but they saw something, et cetera.” Cops release a female on scene.

Lieutenant Stearley recap: “So driving back, we were initially gonna go to this hotel, but we saw this guy right here standing over here. As soon as he saw us, he immediately tried to book it back over here to get back to the hotel. He’s got the room key. As we saw him and told him to stop, he’s holding this black bag right here. Throws it over the fence right here, which contained a syringe here, two of them, and a torch lighter, which he uses to shoot and smoke meth. And then once he was taken into custody, we were able to retrieve the bag. And then in his pocket, he has his dime bag of meth. He also has an outstanding warrant for identity theft out of Tennessee. So he’s gonna be charged with possession of methamphetamine, tampering with evidence for throwing that bag over, and, drug-related objects for the syringes.” Abrams: “So he is gonna be going to jail tonight, not particularly surprising there.”

Lt. Stearley also summarizes the interaction with the female:

  • Monroe montage and #AskMonroe studio Q&A.
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn makes a friendly traffic stop at a gas station on a motorcycle for an allegedly unreadable plate with no light on it. Driver: “Are we on TV?” Deputy Guinn: “Possibly.” When the deputy asks “ever been on TV before, the passenger says “not as an actress,” but mentions that her husband was on Breaking Bad. The motorcycle driver is apparently her stepdad.

Deputy Guinn recap: “So stopped them for the license plate being unreadable. I guess he put some saddlebags on there, and now he’s trying to find a place for it. Passenger says her husband was on a TV show, Breaking Bad, so I thought that was pretty cool. You don’t see that every day in Highlandville, Missouri, so we’ll check his license, and get him on his way…nice people.” Abram quips that “More importantly, I was thinking we might have a Coldplay moment here, right? When she was saying ‘my husband, this,’ and I’m thinking, all right, so who’s he?…but we got an answer…it’s stepdad, so it’s totally, totally cool.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Corporal Blake Welborn and other units make contact with a man sleeping on the ground behind a building. Pill bottles spotted. Cops transport the polite subject to a rehab center. Listen to Cpl. Welborn’s recap:
  • BOLO — a Washington state triple-murder suspect.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor provides back up on a traffic stop. On Patrol: Live caption: “DUI investigation.” The driver allegedly tests at 0.08 on a breathalyzer. A second test apparently has the same result. Cops will transport the driver to the sheriff’s office for further testing. Car towed.

Listen to Chief Taylor summarize the next steps after which Tom Rizzo adds some context:

  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeant Ethyn Perkins investigates what Abrams describes as a “bizarre hit and run that turned out not to have any run.” He makes contact with a passenger in a parked car: “So he’s saying that his friend was the one that was driving, basically, but the friend dropped him off here after hitting a building…” Damage on a brick wall of a home where the impact allegedly occurred noted. Sgt. Perkins makes contact with the victim who was sleeping in the residence. Sgt. Bryce Hughes is also on scene. The state highway patrol takes over the investigation.

Listen to Sgt. Perkins briefly sum up the incident after which Abrams notes that On Patrol: Live has learned that the highway patrol is “unlikely to charge the guy with anything, but man, imagine for the person who was sleeping in the house…”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Johnson and other units responded to a “heated’ domestic incident at a residence possibly involving a gun. The suspect may have a warrant. Cops make contact with a female complainant outside. Cops converge on the house.

Lt. Stearley provides a status report on this incident: “She’s alleging that the guy inside put his hands on her and has a gun. Apparently, he ran in the house upon us arriving. He’s not answering the door, so we’re gonna let PD do their investigation. If she’s got marks or any witness statements like that, they’ll just take out warrants on him, and then go from there. So we’re turning the investigation over to PD.”

  • Missing segment — Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Sternberg with Officer Holmes as backup makes a traffic stop on a pickup truck for allegedly following too closely, an improper turn, and speeding. “Those behaviors of driving made me believe that you may be intoxicated, so that’s why I stopped you.” Sergeant Sternberg also claims he smells alcohol. The male driver says he drank just “part of a beer.” The driver apparently refuses field sobriety testing and is arrested. The female passenger is cleared to drive the vehicle home after apparently undergoing field sobriety testing.

Listen to some of the contentious dialogue between the sergeant and the motorist:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Johnson and other units respond to an officer-involved accident originally reported as a head-on collision. In an update, Abrams explains that “so that’s a relief; it was not a head-on collision, and the officer appears to be okay. He is getting some medical treatment there.” Deputy Johnson: “Thank God the wreck wasn’t nowhere near as bad as we thought it was when we heard a head-on collision. So turns out a civilian ran a stop sign and hit this officer, so pretty sure they’ll be cited, and thank God that this officer is okay. His car is not, but he is.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. — As the episode concludes, Corporal Wendy George, with Corporal Scott Hinson as backup, makes a traffic stop for an alleged fake tag or fake sticker. The driver does not have her license on her person.
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-03, July 18, 2025.

On Patrol: Live Streaming Channels

On Patrol: Live streaming: Reelz, the home of On Patrol: Live, has implemented a standalone streaming app, Reelz+, for subscribers to access all the channel’s content, including On Patrol Live episodes.

On Patrol: Live new tonight: On Patrol: Live airs new, three-hour episodes on Friday and Saturday evening starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time (except for an occasional hiatus when the show is in reruns). So the answer to the question(s) “is On Patrol: Live new tonight” or “is On Patrol: Live on tonight” is almost always yes.

Where can I watch On Patrol: Live apart from Reelz+, what channel is On Patrol Live on? For background information about the police documentary ride-along series On Patrol: Live (i.e., Live PD 2.0), that airs on the Reelz channel (which is also available, e.g., on the Peacock, FreeCast, Philo, Sling,and Frndly TV streaming services, and on some satellite and cable systems such as DirectTV, DISH Network, AT&T U-verse, and Verizon FIOS TV), click on this link.

Reelz+ is also now available as an add-on subscription on Amazon Prime Video.

On Patrol: Live episodes: Just about every incident covered on On Patrol: Live in each of its first-run shows is really live. Footnote: The real-time content is subject, however, to a delay ranging from about five to 20 minutes primarily for legal reasons, and obviously apart from any pre-recorded packages. Also, a given episode may leave behind some loose ends, i.e., incidents where On Patrol: Live does not provide an update or a definitive resolution.

For more information about On Patrol: Live on Reelz, see the Reelz FAQ.

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2 Comments

  1. Robyn Cogert

    Hi can you tell me the search text you use in X to get all the comments. I definitely don’t catch all of these.
    Thanks
    Robyn
    @bluejayNH

    • Robert Jonathan (Post author)

      Hi Robyn: Just using the standard trending hashtags such as #OPLive.

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