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

On Patrol: Live Season 3: An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host/executive producer Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), and analyst Captain Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J., PD), along with the often-provocative or playful social media reaction, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: This new episode featured a contentious traffic stop in Berkeley County, stabbings in Clayton County and in Daytona Beach, “pecker pills” figuring prominently in two separate traffic stops in Berkeley County, and an officer fending off a violent attack in Oklahoma. Weed in vehicles continues to be a trend in most, if not all, jurisdictions..

For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on the 25 law enforcement incidents across seven On Patrol: Live police departments during this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz. Note: On Patrol: Live is new tonight, although Monroe, La., did not appear and may be out of the rotation for the time being, and Las Vegas only appeared in one pre-taped incident. In other agency news, Baton Rouge, La., PD may join the show next spring.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for June 13, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-87)

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  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Bryson Fowler makes a traffic stop for an alleged turn signal violation and for erratic driving. Corporal Fowler indicates that the car, which is a rental, “smells like weed.” The driver, who is not happy, is detained. Car search. Corporal Andy Gonzalez: “We have the legal authority to search that vehicle because there is this odor of marijuana, which is illegal in South Carolina.” Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Marijuana found.” Corporal Gonzalez explains to the motorist that the governor has has not yet signed off on any bills that are or were pending in the legislature to legalize weed. Prior to the search, Corporal Fowler claims that “he admitted that he smoked weed in the vehicle. I asked him to step out of the vehicle. He got a little argumentative. He’s a little agitated, irritated, so we just detained him for a minute…”In the end, Corporal Fowler gives the driver a break. He confiscates an bag of weed that Corporal Ronnie Russell allegedly found in the car and releases the driver with a warning. Abrams: “He’s not even getting a ticket. So he’s got lucky there, but I don’t think he’s gonna say thank you.”

Corporal Fowler to the motorist: “Can you do me a favor? Can you take it down like a couple of notches please.”

Abrams: “Remember Schoolhouse Rock — “I’m Just a Bill.” Trying to explain to him what the deal is there.”

Corporal Gonzalez to the driver: “I want you to really look into that and research what a bill is versus a law because it hasn’t passed yet…” Abrams: “The old bill-versus-law issue.”

Curtis Wilson mentions that if the driver did get a ticket, it’s pricey: “$800 and some change.” Rizzo: “Plus you add on the cost of that’s he out that fresh bag…” Wilson: “You can argue this all day. It’s still illegal in South Carolina.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — The three Maher brothers (Richie, James, and Chris) are on the same traffic stop possibly for an equipment malfunction. Weed confiscated. The driver is told to make sure to carry a valid medical marijuana card. Lt. Richie Maher: “We have discretion on marijuana, and I’m not gonna be an a**hole and lock you up for $20 worth of marijuana. That’s not what I do.” Abrams: “So she was honest, and it was just a little bag. So almost certainly she’s going on her way, as they said; they’re gonna let her go.”

“…I’m not gonna be an a**hole and lock you up for $20 worth of marijuana…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Jacob Sahagian and other units respond to a domestic incident. In the audio clip embedded below, the deputy explains that a male on scene “took a spoon to the face.” Investigation ongoing. Abrams: “There’s a black cat there on this Friday the 13th…”

Abrams: “A possible use of silverware as a weapon is always a bit of a forked-up situation.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — K9 Officer Kyle Bothof and other units pursue a fleeing suspect who was allegedly firing a gun in the air. Traffic stop at gunpoint; multiple officers on scene. Police test the suspect’s hand for gunfire particles. Officer Bothof summary: “He’s gonna be going to jail for driving under the influence, being intoxicated in possession of a handgun, and reckless endangerment for firing the gun in or near a public park, and also fleeing from officers when they initiated the traffic stop.”

In a studio panel discussion of this incident, Abrams claims that the suspect “seems really focused on the wrong things here.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Major John Norrod and Deputy Malik Clark, plus the fire department, respond to a three-car accident. Paramedics summoned to the scene. Injuries appear minor.
  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Mondre Rambo and other units respond to a stabbing incident at an apartment complex that is apparently domestic related. One man detained on scene. Bleeping. Two victims.

Listen to Deputy Rambo’s incident recap:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Sahagian makes contact with a woman outside a store; the business wants her trespassed from the location. The deputy is apparently familiar with the subject. Abrams: “‘I’m not on drugs; just mushrooms and marijuana.’ The natural stuff…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporals Fowler and Carli Carr on a traffic stop. Car search. Corporal Carr field tests tablets that the driver apparently described as “pecker pills” purchased at a gas station. Abrams: “He’s insisting that it is not illegal drugs. It is just a perfectly legal pecker pick me up.” A positive test for for MDMA (ecstasy) allegedly occurs. Abrams: “So some confusion there about whether it is drugs, and if so, what drug it may be. So they’re gonna have to sort that out.” The driver ends up being arrested.

Corporal Carr recap: “So luckily, a Charleston County deputy was passing by and got out with me, and he had the MDMA kit. And like you guys saw, immediately it tested positive for ecstasy. So I do understand what he’s saying, but also, we have people lie to us all the time. So that’s gonna be something that we work out in court. I’m not working that on the roadside with him for drugs.” Abrams: “Sounds like what she’s saying is this could be both. A quote pecker pill, but also have illegal drugs in it, right? So said pecker pill could be used…for — including some sort of illegal drug…” Rizzo: “Imaging popping positive for taking a pecker pill?”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy William Dyal and other units, including the fire department, respond to a rollover accident. The vehicle is under a highway overpass. Abrams: “And that is why you have people who are experts in accident reconstruction trying to figure out exactly how this may have happened.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Kirsten Yule-Zaagman, K9 Officer Ashley Coons, and another colleague respond to an alleged disturbance at a pizza parlor. “Do you happen to know why someone would call 911 on you all?…I was just curious as to what your guy’s take was on that.” Two subjects, a father and son. Abrams: “We’ll see if anything comes of this, if it’s just a Father’s Day outing, or a pre-Father’s Day outing, or if there’s something else at issue.” Abrams: “It seems that they’re giving dad here a field sobriety test because they want to make sure he can drive home, not because they saw him driving.” Abrams subsequently adds that “got a little more information about it now. Turns out this guy was actually at the wheel when police officers arrived. He admitted he’d been driving, so this is not just a test to make he can drive moving forward. It’s also a field sobriety test to determine if he was driving under the influence because he also admitted he’d been driving.” Abrams: “So this guy seems pretty out of it. And he is now being arrested for driving under the influence. Remember, he was at the wheel, and he admitted to having been driving…”

Officer Yule-Zaagman recap: “So based on my partner’s field sobriety testing, it’s being determined that this individual is under the influence of either alcohol, some kind of other drug, so he is going to be placed under arrest for DUI, and we’ve got to figure out what to do with this vehicle and his son.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Triple Play #1 — A horrifying attack on an Edmond, Okla., police officer (as of now, the video appears to have been pulled from Twitter/X). Abrams: “This is one of the most intense ones I think we’ve ever seen on this program.” As an epilogue, Wilson notes that “every deputy in Richland County has to go through being sprayed, also sprayed in the face, and then having to fight through it. So that therefore, in situations like this, you protect yourself.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant James Maher and Detective Noah Galbreath serve a warrant a residence on a juvenile male for alleged aggravated fleeing and eluding. Sgt. Maher: “It’s a second-degree felony. It’s a pretty serious crime, puts a lot of the public at risk when you’re fleeing to the point where it’s [unintelligible]…” After making contact with his mother at the house, the cooperative subject comes out and is taken into custody.

Listen to Sgt. Maher’s summary:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Richie Maher on a traffic stop and engages in a circular discussion of some kind with the vocal driver. Lt. Maher: “I don’t think this conversation is going anywhere productive.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Corporal Dylan Lee and other units respond to an alleged assault at a bar. Abrams introduces the segment by asserting that Corporal Lee “encountered a woman outside a bar who claimed someone took her car keys which may have been warranted.” Cops make contact with the female (who consumed “three beers) and who ends up getting subdued on the ground. Bleeping. Corporal Lee questions a witness about a fight that allegedly happened between the woman and an another female who left the scene. The woman ends up getting arrested.

Listen to Corporal Lee’s recap:

Cpl. Lee: “You got to act orderly.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant James Maher backs up bother Chris on a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle at “kind of a weird location,” namely a truck with its back open that was rummaged through. En route to the scene, Sgt. Maher quips that “We’re going to get out with him and check on him and make sure he’s okay and nobody steals my little brother.” Crack pipe spotted on the ground. The Mahers will try to contact the vehicle’s owner.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant James Maher and his two brothers, among other cops, respond to a report of a fight at an apartment complex. A blood trail is spotted. One male is stabbed at the location. Another male on scene is apparently injured too. Cops clear the apartment unit. Paramedics summoned to the scene. The studio panel discusses Lt. Maher’s reference to a “spontaneous utterance.” Detectives en route; investigation ongoing.

Lt. Maher: “At this point, we have one victim downstairs with a stab wound to the face, bleeding profusely. We have another male that’s potentially the other half, matches the description upstairs…there’s a trail of blood that leads right to his apartment. He made some spontaneous utterances that he stabbed him multiple times..” Captain Rizzo addresses what’s called a “protective sweep” ‘– you have blood there. You got to make sure that there’s nobody else in that apartment, whether it’s victim or subject, that’s injured that needs medical aid.” Wilson: “Also, too, establishing a crime scene where this actually originated from and how it happened and why.”

Listen to a further update from Sgt. James Maher followed by a studio panel discussion about the legal implications of spontaneous utterances:

Listen as Tom Rizzo and Curtis Wilson explain where the stabbing investigation goes from here:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Sahagian makes contact with a male at a gas station possibly on a bicycle stop. Fake money found. Drugs possibly found. The subject, who Deputy Sahagian claims is “known for throwing dope on us,” is released. “There’s so many things going on right now, so this is your lucky day.” A confiscated substance will be tested at the crime lab and apparently could result in a warrant.

Listen to Deputy Sahagian discuss this incident prior to releasing the man:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Danny Brown conducts a traffic stop. Four occupants who might be all under 21. “These kids get robbed out here, hanging out in these parking lots.” Car search. Little chunks of weed allegedly spotted. Open container poured out. Captain Brown finds an item which prompts him to make reference to the 1996 science fiction spoof movie Mars Attacks.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Amidst a heavy rainstorm and flooded roads, Deputy Toddson Catoe assists a disabled vehicle. Responding to Deputy Catoe’s question “how much weed in the car?,” the driver allegedly admits to some weed in the vehicle. Car search. Weed will be confiscated for destruction. Abrams: “That’s a bad night for them. The car’s flooded; the car’s disabled…they lost their marijuana as well.”
  • Triple Play #2 — A Fond du Lac, Wisc., police pursuit.
  • Moore, Okla. — After a call from loss prevention staff who were watching the subjects on surveillance cameras, Officer Brendon Hughes and other cops detain two females outside a retail store for alleged shoplifting. “Can I call my mom?” Abrams: “They don’t seem particularly concerned about the fact that they’ve just gotten busted.”

Officer Hughes explains that “A lot of the time you can tell with these cart push-outs and stuff like that, because people, as they move closer to the front of the store, they kind of increase their pace, obviously, and they start to look really nervous.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — During another car search apparently pursuant to a traffic stop, Captain Brown allegedly finds, among other things, what appears to be a sex toy (“assault rifle”) in a backpack.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Fowler and colleagues make a consensual car search at a traffic stop at a gas station. Two occupants. In addition to a skull mask, cops find a substance that allegedly tests positive for meth. One of the occupants apparently also alludes to pecker pills.

Dan Abrams: “It’s 0 for 2 on the pecker-pill defense.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Yule-Zaagman and other units, plus paramedics, respond to a report of a woman passed out in a gas station restroom. The subject is taken into custody on scene. A reference is made to “doing a documentary.” Abrams: “The good news is she seems to be okay.”

Officer Yule-Zaagman recap: “She was awake and alert when officers got there, but our procedure now, we’re gonna just make sure all her vitals are good, and then we’re gonna figure out what we’re going to do, but right now, she’s gonna be receiving some medical attention.” Officer Yule-Zaagman update: “So considering the totality of circumstances here, this young lady was found unconscious by a member of the public in the bathroom. She was awake when we got here, but based on her demeanor, from our training and experience, we can tell that she’s under the influence of something. So for her safety, and for everyone else, she’s gonna be taken into custody now and transported to the county jail.”

Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Catoe and Corporal Tim Riley respond to a car accident in which a vehicle almost struck an apartment complex unit. The fire department is also on scene. Tow truck summoned to the location. Abrams: “That’s very lucky that vehicle did not go back any further. It sounds like the driver’s come back, explains what he says happened.”

Listen to Deputy Catoe’s initial assessment:

  • Las Vegas, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Juan Basulto and a colleague investigate when a cat appears to been left in a van in a store parking lot. Water and cat food spotted in the vehicle. The owner does show up on scene, and all is well. “It’s interesting here in Vegas, people don’t recognize how hot a vehicle can get. Thank goodness, he had the windows cracked, and it was cool enough that the animal wasn’t in trouble.” Abrams: “Guy seemed to have done everything right.”

Knox County, Tenn. — As the episode concludes, the show cameras provide a closeup of a rabbit.

Click on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode #03-88, June 14, 2025 [forthcoming] . 

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