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

On Patrol: Live Season 3: A recap of the June 14, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 03-88) on Reelz, anchored in the NYC studio by attorney and host/executive producer Dan Abrams along with On Patrol: Live hosts/co-hosts Curtis Wilson and Tom Rizzo, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: The centerpiece of this episode was an intense standoff with a massive police presence that lasted about one hour in Knox County. This incident prompted an equally huge social media response from #OPNation. And as a result of the coverage of the lengthy stalemate, this episode featured roughly about 50 percent fewer incidents than usual. Other highlights include an alleged Clayton County shoplifting incident and a PlayStation pursuit in Moore, Oklahoma.

For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on each of the law enforcement incidents across seven scheduled On Patrol: Live police departments during this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

Agency update/program notes: The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is “taking a little break” from On Patrol: Live, but is expected to return at some point. The status of Monroe, La., PD, is unclear as of now. Baton Rouge, La., PD is likely to join the show sometime next year. And Detective Daniellly De Andrade (Hollywood, Fla., PD) will return to the studio next weekend as a guest commentator.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for June 14, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-88)

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  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Malik Clark responds to a report of alleged shoplifting at Home Depot. He conducts a traffic stop at gunpoint in the parking lot; the car has a male and a female occupant. An employee seems to identify items in the car that were allegedly stolen. Another male is detained in the parking lot separately. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “Bravo to the employees there for doing the right thing. They don’t want to be in that position. The last thing they want to be doing is dealing with this kind of stuff.”

Abrams update: “The driver of the first vehicle released with no charges. The passenger of that vehicle, the woman wearing the Scooby-Doo T-shirt, and the man in the white shirt with the white Jeep, are under investigation. That’s where that one stands.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant Selina Puentes initiates a traffic stop on a truck for no license plate lights. The driver gives a shout-out to On Patrol: Live. The driver is released with a warning and with directions to get to her destination. Sgt. Puentes: “She’s gonna get cut out of here; her license is valid. She’s gonna get home safely.”

Abrams: “Her license is valid, of course, because she’s an OPLive fan, and she knows, of course, you got to have a valid license.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Kirsten Yule-Zaagman is one of an armada of cops, and a K9, that converge on a vehicle in a gas station parking lot for a driver who allegedly refuses to exit his vehicle on a traffic stop. On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of threat to shoot officer.” The driver does a lot of yelling during the approximately one-hour standoff with police while cops try to negotiate with him. Abrams: “He just said he’s a two-time convict who knows his rights but clearly he doesn’t know…” Driver: “I don’t feel safe,” “I can’t see,” “I can’t breathe,” “What did I do?,” “What am I under arrest for?, “I want my phone.” Bleeping. The driver denies having any guns in the car. Eventually, and after warnings, a cop fires pepper balls into the car; the driver then gets out of the car and is detained. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Paramedics transport the suspect to the hospital by ambulance. Cops subsequently have to descend on the ambulance because the suspect allegedly starts fighting with paramedics inside. Police secure him, and the ambulance continues on.

Officer Yule-Zaagman: “So right now, this guy is threatening a shoot-out with us. He has charges of domestic assault. And he is smoking a cigarette, so that’s never a good sign…he’s refusing to exit the vehicle. Based on his statements of wanting to have a shootout with law enforcement, we’re trying to figure out how to extract him from the vehicle safely.”

Officer Yule-Zaagman: “And he is smoking a cigarette, so that’s never a good sign.”

Abrams: “So obviously a potentially dangerous situation, a lot of backup. Captain Rizzo, the minute someone threatens to shoot law enforcement, you call in the backup.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “To be expected, and they want to control the area. They’re gonna evacuate anything that’s gonna be even remotely close to not being involved in this, and now time is on your side…they’re just gonna turn around and slow it down, try to get him to come out of the car, and control it from there. There’s no reason to approach.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “And also try to ID this guy, and they also use dispatch to try to get as much information about this individual, if there’s any priors or anything like that as well.” Abrams: “So far, the guy refusing to get out, but he’s also got nowhere to go.” Abrams: “Captain Rizzo, they’re not gonna just walk up to the vehicle, right? ” Rizzo: “No; it’s not gonna be careless. It’s gonna be strategic. There has to be some type of ballistic protection…” Abrams: “And Curtis, you were talking about whether he leaves the window open or closed changes the opportunities here.” Wilson: “if the window’s open gives the opportunity to use less lethal to try to get him out of that vehicle…”

Abrams: “We could see that some of the officers there suffering from the pepper as well.” Wilson: “It’s that wind blowing back on them as well, and now that they have him in cuffs, now they can treat him to try to help…”

Curtis Wilson explains that the purpose of the pepper balls “is to mess with your respiratory system. Your eyes, your nose, breathing, the whole nine yards. So therefore, you’re disoriented, and they try to really saturate that vehicle so that therefore he has no choice but to come out.” Rizzo: Approaching the vehicle is “gonna be based on what they can see from a vantage point. If both of his hands are visible, and he’s obviously irritated from the pepper ball, which was the point, they might do a tactical approach here and extract him from the vehicle. No reason not to if you have any advantage. Literally, the window of opportunity is open. And Knox is showing you every level of force available from deadly to mechanical to enhanced mechanicals, what we call it, and it’s the use of force continuum on display right now.”

Listen as K9 Officer Brad Yearout provides some background on this incident followed by some studio commentary:

Officer Yule-Zaagman: “I haven’t even drank my energy drink yet.”

Officer Yule-Zaagman summary: “So this individual refused to get out of the vehicle. That’s what created all of this. And so we used less-lethal methods to extract him, and now he apparently is having some kind of medical emergencies, and he’s gonna be transported to hospital where he’s also gonna be held on charges. He initially had a warrant, and that’s why we got out with him. But he’s picked up a couple more charges now.”

Officer Yule-Zaagman update: “So the gentleman that was just arrested decided he wanted to fight the EMT workers in the back of the ambulance. So he’s now been restrained, and hopefully they can take him now to the hospital. I haven’t even drank my energy drink yet.” Abrams: “Well, this guy continuing to wreak havoc in Knox County.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. –With other officers, Lieutenant Richie Maher responds to a domestic incident possibly involving a gun and equips himself with a department-issued long gun to “kind of even the odds in case of a firearm involved.” Lt. Maher detains a male outside a residence. A female on scene, perhaps the wife, becomes argumentative with Lt. Maher, but they reach common ground later as the situation de-escalates. Investigation ongoing.

Listen as Lieutenant Maher discusses the incident with the woman on scene (“the more you can just, like, chill out for us, the better”) and summarizes where things stand:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Justin Sternberg is flagged down at an apartment complex by a male who claims that three men stole his PlayStation that he was selling. Foot pursuit by Officer Sternberg; cops detain two individuals. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspects in custody.” Officer Sternberg makes contact with the residents of an apartment unit that the third suspect allegedly ran into. The couple there seems initially uncooperative. Consensual apartment search for the third suspect’s backpack. Cops allegedly spot a PlayStation inside the apartment. The couple apparently claims they found it outside. Sergeant Sternberg is the same officer who ran through a fence during a foot pursuit as featured in a previous On Patrol: Live Triple Play.

Abrams: “This is called an investigation. You ask questions. You’re trying to get answers, and it is not been easy…I don’t know what they are so angry about…but…to their credit, they gave consent to search.”

Listen to Sergeant Sternberg’s interim summary of the incident followed by some studio commentary about the adrenaline rush intrinsic to a foot pursuit:

Abrams: “I don’t know what they are so angry about. The police just found the stolen items. They’re not saying they did anything; they’re not saying they were involved. But okay, they found it. So why are you yelling?” Rizzo: “Well, but you would think, as far as there’s the item right here, right? And it just so happens while the police presence is, and you come across a PlayStation.” Abrams: “But…to their credit, they gave consent to search. Fine, great. Don’t be mad at the police when they find the item that someone reported ‘I saw someone run into that house’ right at that moment with the box.”

Abrams subsequently mentions that “they are not being arrested, but they’re filling out some paperwork.” Officer Sternberg explains that “we did find our PlayStation. It’s inside here. I guess he had found it in the breezeway behind us. Said he was gonna return it to the rightful owner. That’s to be determined. However, we have him filling out an affidavit of non-ownership, meaning that he is claiming that he does not own the PlayStation, so that we can retrieve it from the apartment and give it back to our victim.”

Abrams praises the police work in this incident: “…guy flags him down, catches two suspects, gets up other information about where the item may be, and boom.” Rizzo: “And it makes the victim whole again, right?” Abrams: “…it doesn’t happen that often.” Rizzo: “No.” As far as the finding the third suspect is concerned, Abrams opines that “I don’t know if that’s gonna happen. We shall see.” Wilson underscores the advisability of completing a transaction or an exchange at the police station: “This way it’s safe, and you can go ahead and get your money or your product without having to deal with issues like this.”

  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Andreona Sanders responds to a domestic incident and encounters two men allegedly fighting on porch. She tases one of the men. The other man who refused repeated commands to drop a knife he was holding is detained.

Listen to Deputy Sander’s incident recap:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Jacob Sahagian investigates a possible fight on the street. One male is bleeding from an eye. Both males the shake hands and appear cordial. A female is also on scene. Paramedics summoned to the location. Abrams: “So it wasn’t a fight at all…these guys are making friends over an incident that happened. No one’s angry; just tying to make sure this guy’s okay.”
  • Las Vegas, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Preston Prescia conducts a traffic stop for expired plates. “I’m just trying to go home.” While on scene, a swerving Dodge Charger allegedly nearly swerves into the patrol car and the female driver. Officer Prescia immediately releases the driver (“here’s your lucky day”) possibly with a ticket and pursues the other vehicle to a residence. Officer Prescia makes contact on scene with the driver, admonishes the driver’s mom, and issues a criminal citation for reckless driving and perhaps one or more other tickets to unlicensed driver. Abrams: “A lot of lessons to learn from what we just saw right there.”

Listen to Officer Prescia interact with the mom (“…he could have killed two people today, and you realize they could have sued you…”) and provides an incident summary:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy William Dyal responds to a call where an elderly woman says that a possibly intoxicated male intruder entered her bedroom and tried to kiss her. She managed to escort the stranger out of the home. Cops clear the residence both inside and out. Abrams: “That would mean he has definitely violated the rules of the rehab house is my guess, if he’s intoxicated and cruising around the neighborhood.” Deputy Sahagian deploys K9 Vader who allegedly tracks a scent to a backpack and a bottle of liquor at a nearby rehab house. Abrams: “Again, this is a rehab facility, so liquor bottles — got to believe are not allowed there.” Deputies Dyal, Sahagian, and other units separately detain two males at that location. Cops apparently will do a show-up to determine if the woman can possibly identify either of the males as the suspect.

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Yule-Zaagman responds to a motorcycle-car accident. The fire department also responds to the scene. “This is technically in the city, so we’re gonna just hold this scene until the city gets here.” Abrams: “So they’ll try to piece together exactly what happened there.”
  • Triple Play #3 –– a Perry, Ohio, police pursuit.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Carli Carr backs up Deputy Austin Longieliere on a friendly traffic stop for an expired tag. A car search allegedly reveals a small amount of weed in the center console that the Instacart driver apparently says was a tip from a customer. The weed is stomped out (“return it to mother nature”), and the affable driver is released after a hug with the deputy.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Sahagian heads to the scene of a disturbance where a subject was allegedly brandishing a three-foot sword. He subsequently learns from dispatch that cops have already taken a subject into custody after taser deployment.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher and another unit respond to a report of an unoccupied vehicle with the engine running. It turns out that a couple is just sitting there eating some donuts. Lt. Maher: “Mystery solved…very much occupied…just two people chilling in their truck eating Krispy Kreme. Didn’t offer me any.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — As the episode concludes, Deputy Clark rushes to a street takeover involving fireworks.
Click on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode #03-87, June 13, 2025.

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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.

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 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.