This Weekend’s On Patrol: Live Highlights, Quotes, Social Media Activity, and Puns
The docuseries On Patrol: Live — i.e., Live PD 2.0 — premiered on the Reelz channel in July 2022 and generally follows the same basic format as its A&E network predecessor in which videographers accompany cops on night patrol in real time.
About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers usually from eight different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings. Pre-recorded segments are usually part of the show as well.
An On Patrol: Live recap, including studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-hosts Sean Larkin and Curtis Wilson (retired Tulsa, Okla., cop and Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff, respectively), along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.
Former Greenville County, S.C., Master Deputy Chad Ayers joined the panel for this weekend’s episodes.
NOTE: See Disclaimer below.
On Patrol: Live Summary for June 16, 2023 (#OPL Episode 01-89)
- Toledo, Ohio— Officers respond to neighbor dispute involving several females yelling at each other. One female claims that another woman wants to fight her “because she’s a drug crackhead.” Much of the dialogue in the cacophony is bleeped. Cops tell a woman who might be the instigator to leave area. Sgt. Geoff McLendon: “The two ladies here are fighting in the street or getting ready to fight. I guess she slept with her ex-boyfriend or something like that. It happened seven years ago…we’re just gonna separate them for now; if she comes back, we’re just gonna arrest here for ‘DC’ intox. They’re out here fighting, causing a disturbance. So we’re gonna go on the next call.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers and paramedics respond to medical emergency in neighborhood involving a possible heart attack. The subject is able to walk to the ambulance, and he is transported to the hospital. Abrams: “A reminder as always that police have to respond to all different calls, including medical calls. It’s not just the ambulance that gets called; it’s also the police.” Larkin: “Absolutely. A lot of times it’s just [that] they want someone who’s close to that call, whether it’s fire, EMS, or police, to try to get there to save a life.”
- Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — High-speed police chase of SUV. after which the driver is detained. Wilson: “They did a great job, especially with the pursuit…” Abrams points out that deputies did not let the suspect “dictate” the pursuit and notes that stop sticks don’t always work. With regard to the latter, Ayers explains that “I would say 50-50, and there [are] variables involved in stop sticks. But oftentimes, with a suspect, if you have a successful stop-stick deployment, tires start deflating, the gig’s up, they know there’s no more running, and just like we saw…there, he gives up.” Abrams: “The driver was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, as well as reckless driving, failure to stop for blue lights and sirens, and shoplifting.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers canvas area after a report of shots fired. An uncooperative pedestrian is detained during the investigation. On phone, he says “they got me on TV and sh*t.” He also repeatedly tells officer to “get off me, bro.” Much of the dialogue is bleeped. Cops also discover a vehicle with bullet holes and recover at least one shell casing that will be sent to the police lab for analysis. Ofr. Jimmy Verdekal: “So right now, we’re just gonna be looking for any kind of evidence. As of right now, I don’t know that we have a victim.” Abrams: “They don’t even necessarily have a suspect. They just have a guy who was at that place, and then behaving oddly, so we’ll see what happens…” The subject is later released.
Verdekal update: “So this male — at this point, we don’t know if he’s involved or not. It’s gonna take a lot for us to get any kind of video. We have a name; we know where he lives. Once we get a little more information, if we need to come back, revisit him. Right now, we don’t have a victim other than this car being shot up. We’ll go from there and see if we can have a detective out here or not.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Dep. Nicholas Huggins, assisted by Dep. Hannon Daigler makes traffic stop on car in front of home that was allegedly “swerving all over the road.” Driver appears to be unwilling to answer questions about whether he consumed any alcohol or drugs. He is taken into custody for alleged suspicion of DUI. Huggins mentions that the sheriff’s department will apply for a search warrant to obtain a blood draw after they take him to jail.
- Beech Grove, Ind. (pre-recorded segment) — Cops respond to a motel guest in lobby who was shot several times. A suspect is subsequently detained on the street with the assistance of an Amtrak police officer who is a Beech Grove retired deputy chief. Stolen firearm allegedly found on the suspect, who is allegedly IDed by the victim.
Abrams; “Curtis, most shootings do not get wrapped up this quickly.” Wilson: “Not this quickly, unless it’s a TV show…just being in the right place at the right time. You get lucky like this, and here it is, you have that suspect, and you can wrap this case.” Larkin: “There is luck, but it is also great police work. Behavior of a suspect really stands out to trained officers. And those are the type of things that get these guys caught quickly. Abrams: “And Chad, you do training. We saw that woman lying on the ground [and] police responding. That’s sort of what you do is training for that kind of situation.” Ayers: “It is. On how to stop massive bleeding on all areas of the body. And something that stuck out, you heard her additionally start saying ‘I can’t breathe like this.’ Well, she had several gunshot wounds in the back, and [the officer] used…an individual first-aid kit…and used a chest seal with prevents air from building up inside of her chest cavity. And probably within several minutes, she’s probably gonna be breathing a lot better, getting that air that’s built up inside out.” Abrams: “Again, a reminder, police got to do a little bit of everything.” Ayers: “That’s right.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic speed on vehicle that allegedly ran a red light. A bottle of alcohol allegedly spotted in the back seat. Abrams: “Seems like so many people that get pulled over by Deputy Dylan Lee do not speak English.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop on moped for tag visibility issue. Officers run license check on driver and passenger. If everything checks out, they will be released with warning.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Officers respond to domestic incident and obtain information from a witness, apparently the mom. A male and female exit the residence on cops’ direction. The male insists the situation involved a verbal argument only. Investigation ongoing. Cpl. Brandon Ramek or Ofr. Anthony Vega: “More likely than not, we’ll take him for felony assault against his mom and misdemeanor domestic violence.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop for moving violations. Voluntary car search. Driver released with no charges.
- Toledo, Ohio — Cops respond to an alleged domestic incident between older couple and question that parties. The parties agree to go their separate ways for the weekend or at least for the night. Ofr. Greg Long Jr. notes that no violence or threats occurred and adds that Toledo PD takes allegedly domestic violence seriously. “If we have to come back here again, we’ll have to arrest somebody.” Abrams: “Everything seems peachy for now.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Lamontre Williams and colleagues canvas immediate area on foot after the homeowner says she heard voices in the backyard. No apparent signs of forced entry. Deputies intend to check for any intruders on the premises. Wilson: “What they’ll do…is talk to the victim inside. They’ll be able to go in and clear the house to make sure nobody’s in there. And also check the sheds and stuff like that and all around the backyard just to make sure on the safe side there’s no one there.” Larkin: “Oftentimes, if you’ve got the manpower, you’ll basically do a containment. You’ll contain the front and the back, and if the department allows it, you’ll bring a K9, and let the K9 and that handler go through the house and clear it.” Abrams: “But I guess the possibility is that there is someone in there. That does add to the possible need to go in faster, right?” Wilson: “You have to take is serious. She said that she heard some voices.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Dep. Daigler responds to a landlord-tenant dispute apparently involving WiFi access in a trailer park. He makes contact with both parties to try to mediate the dispute and advises them to stay away from each other. He advises the parties to steer clear of each other and not “instigate any situations tonight.” He adds that “hopefully, it’s gonna be peaceful for the rest of the night. We’ll see if we have to come back here. As of right now, everybody is separated…” He is subsequently dispatched back to the scene because one of the parties is yelling at the other (although apparently there were no threats made) and advises one of the parties to go to court to obtain a temporary protective order or restraining order against the other party. Daigler: “We done for the night, hopefully. We’ll see.”
Abrams: “Chad Ayers — the number of times that police officers have to inform people about the difference between a civil matter and a criminal matter must get frustrating.” Ayers: “It’s daily, and obviously you get their frustration…but sure, I wish I could help ‘you’ out a little bit more, but there is a process. There is a difference between a criminal matter that I can help you with and enforce versus a civil matter that you’re gonna have to go to a judge and discuss.” Larkin: “The majority of these are exactly that: they’re tenant-landlord disputes. Sometimes it’s the sale of a car, a contractual thing. And just as Chad pointed out, there is nothing we can do other than try to keep the peace between the two parties.” Abrams: “And sometimes there’s a call about the fast-food was cooked improperly.” Wilson: “And the most important thing is that it takes you away from doing other calls that could be even more important.”
After the second call, Abrams asserts that “intent is a critical part of the law, but intent to piss someone off is not a crime…but this is why a restraining order becomes very significant, because the minute you get that restraining order, game’s changed. So if someone does it, now you’ve stepped into the criminal.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputies respond to a burglary in progress. Two suspects in masks allegedly broke into a home, but they had already left by the time cops arrived. Deputies interview residents and also obtain Ring camera video, or the equivalent, of alleged suspects from neighbors, which is broadcast on OPL. K9 deployed to search area. Sgt. Paul Yacobozzi: “We’re gonna continue to walk these complexes to make sure and kind of notate which ones might have cameras and stuff.” Abrams: “Man, the power of cameras. They’re everywhere.” Larkin: “Game changer.” Investigation ongoing. Abrams: “Now they have a pretty good look at the two suspects who it sounds like might have fled when they realized someone was home which probably happens sometimes when they’re hoping to go into an empty home, they see someone’s home, and they flee.” Wilson: “Definitely. And what’s gonna happen here, they’ll use probably investigators, detectives, to try to identify these two, and if they can’t do that, they’ll probably put it out to media because they have some great video that probably folks can come forward and identify these individuals.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Man detained; drugs allegedly found.
- Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Anthony Morrow unsuccessfully tries to catch a small dog that is running loose on the road. Captions: “SC Iditarod,” “Puppy wants a cracker?”, “Paw pursuit.” Morrow: “We were circulating in the area…”
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Driver fled from traffic stop. Suspended license; expired registration. After he is taken custody by deputies, Cpl. Carli Drayton points out that the stop would likely have only resulted in a ticket. Abrams: “Sometimes people really do end up fleeing for really dumb reasons.” Larkin: “I am a firm believer that most people run from the police for something other than a simple traffic violation. But if they are, in fact, running for something so small — you see how dangerous this pursuit was, weaving in and out of traffic and things like that. If they crash into somebody, injure somebody, or take the life of somebody, very strong possibility they’re gonna spend the rest of their life in prison…”
- Toledo, Oho — Traffic stop in driveway; headlight out. Gun allegedly spotted in car in center console after man told cops there were no weapons or drugs in the vehicle. The argumentative man is detained. A bag of weed allegedly find on the subject’s person. Det. Tyler Miller or another officer on the scene asserts that cops asked the driver to step out of the car “multiple times” before he did so. The officer goes on to say that “In the state of Ohio, if you’re asked by a law enforcement officer if you have a firearm, you have to notify them. I asked several times…he still denied it, denied it, denied it. And then now he’s claiming that he forget it was in there. Again, he lied to us about the firearm being there. He says that it’s his firearm, legally owned, and he says he’s allowed to have it. So got to do a little more research to make sure he’s legally allowed to have it, but, but at the very least, he’s gonna be under arrest for failing to notify us about the firearm.”
Abrams: “And after he failed to notify, rather than saying ‘oh, my bad, it was a mistake,’ he continued the sort of angry response, as if it’s the officer’s fault that he hadn’t reported it.” Wilson: “He didn’t help his case. Go from zero to 100, when this thing could of went a different way totally, but instead, now’s got to go to jail.”
- Crime of the Night — Jennings, County, Ind.
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Traffic stop on vehicle that allegedly ran a red light. Driver is quickly released with no citation. Ofr. Verdekal: “I can’t write you a ticket coming from church.” Caption: “Prayers answered.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies canvas immediate area on foot after homeowner overhears whistling in the backyard, but find no one. Abrams: “Curtis this is your department. If someone steps on a cricket, does that sound like a whistle?” Wilson: “It may. I know they go crunch.” “Abrams: “There’s a lot of crickets out there and making a lot of noise, so who knows.”
- Wanted segment — Daytona Beach, Fla.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Traffic stop; expired license.
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop; tint infraction. Det. Noah Galbreath: “When I originally stopped you, I’m not planning on writing you a ticket…but when you continue to talk over me, be confrontational, want to start an argument when you’re coming from a strip club, yeah, you’re gonna get the paper every time.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — As the show ends, deputies respond to report of a motorcycle crash. They encounter the purported motorcyclist sitting at a table outside a bar. Dep. Lee spots “‘road rash” on the left arm and right hand of the subject who says the bike is in the nearby woods.
On Patrol: Live Summary for June 17, 2023 (#OPL Episode 01-90)
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers track possible stolen car. The vehicle begins to flee, and in the pursuit, it flips over in a backyard. Occupant(s) foot bail. Cops search area for the suspect or suspects and try to obtain information for bystanders. K9 deployed. A small dog was in the car. A 17-year-old male who allegedly said he was a passenger is detained and questioned by Sgt. Mike Bryant.
According to Abrams, the teen subsequently admitted to being the driver of the vehicle, and that “the charges will include grand theft auto, fleeing and eluding, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage.” Directing a comment to Ayers, Abrams mentions that “we had seen Sgt. Bryant talking to him for a while there on the side of the road.” Ayers: “Sgt. Bryant did a great job, using, let’s call it verbal judo, and there were things Sgt. Bryant saw during the pursuit and started questioning him on it. The problem with if you’re telling a lie, you have to remember what lies you told before…” Abrams: “He was asking him specific questions about what the passenger did, listening to how he responded as ‘the passenger’ as opposed to ‘oh wait, you said you were the passenger. Why didn’t you say I, et cetera?”
Det. Selena Puentes on puppy: “He’s very sweet. A little tired from his joyride. He seems to be okay from the crash. Nothing too crazy. Seems very healthy and everything. We’re gonna take him to the Humane Society. I wish we could keep him. There are some rules we got to follow. If anyone wants to adopt him, [contact] the Humane Society…”
- Fullerton, Calif. — Foot chase of suspected gang members through apartment complex alleyway. Cops detained on male; four others apparently are still at large. Cpl. Ramek: “This is a high gang area. Last time we were over here a few weeks ago, gang members in this area threw bricks at one of our police officer’s vehicle, so we’ve been trying to do more patrol checks around here. The graffiti has definitely increased. Had shootings out here, narcotics activity. Residents are complaining about the increase in graffiti, so we just like to do extra patrol checks. We saw this group of gang types sitting over here. They had open containers of Pacifico…as soon as they saw us, they took off. They started fleeing as soon as they saw our police car. I went in foot pursuit after about four of them. Three or four of them got away. I got one of them. And then we’re gonna search this car right here just to see if there is any more contraband.” In connection with the path that the subject ran, Ofr. Vega explains that “As you can see, there’s a spray can of black spray paint here. When we were driving prior to contacting these subjects, we saw multiple graffiti throughout the neighborhood in the alleys with black spray paint. So I can tell that last night that their neighbor had got tagged by a rival gang that was nearby in the city of Placentia, and now the gang members here are probably crossing it out and tagging their gang signs to represent this is their turf.” Fentanyl or cocaine allegedly found in the alleyway where the group was running.
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Ofr. Chris Benson makes contact with a pedestrian who apparently had lodged a noise complaint and asks her ifs she was drinking and driving previously.
- Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Garo Brown and Cp. Morrow race to a shots-fired call. The call might have been a false alarm. They make contact with a homeowner who demonstrates his grill skills.
- Toledo, Ohio (prior to air) — Officers interact with older man on sidewalk wearing a Batman costume. Open container emptied. Captions: “Holy Toledo, Batman!,” “Riddle me this Batman,” “The Dark Knight can’t rise.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers respond to a domestic incident involving a custody dispute. Much of the dialogue is bleeped. Abrams: “This is just a reminder how explosive these domestic incidents can get, particularly when you are talking about custody of kids, et cetera. You just never know what’s gonna happen next as an officer arrives at that kind of scene.” Ayers: “A lot of high emotions especially when children are involved. People are passionate about their kids. It’s Father’s Day — probably wants his child on Father’s Day…” Wilson: “From zero to 100 so quick, especially in a domestics like that. And somebody can get hurt, which is why they have to deescalate this thing as quickly as possible.”
- Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment as follows: “You’ve heard of campfire stories that can be scary. But not as scary as what happened earlier…when a guy was attacked while sitting around a campfire in his backyard.” Cops respond to incident in which a male was pistol-whipped while hanging out in his backyard listening to music. The suspects then fled. The victim was unable to identify the suspects who were dressed in all black. Fire emergency called to the scene to treat the victim. The detective bureau will investigate further.
Commenting about the EMTs, Wilson explains that “they’re gonna stay back until law enforcement goes in first, to make sure the area is clear, secure, so they can go in and treat him, as, of course, they get information from the [victim]. Larkin : “And talking with the victim, just due to the suspects wearing all black, didn’t know the race of them, very difficult for the officers to do their job going forward. They’re still gonna take a full report…the detectives are gonna contact them, ‘hey, do you have any additional information.’ They’re gonna say no. They’re gonna suspend that case as basically dead in the water at that point.”
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies make contact with a subject in connection with a trespass-related call apparently at a store. Dep. Jonathan Justice: “I don’ think they could find him earlier, the units out here. So we’re not gonna cite him. He’s being cool. So if he comes back…we’ll probably just take him to jail for trespassing. He’s got a bunch priors for trespassing anyways. If we see him again, then we will address that issue and probably take him for trespass.” Abrams: “That’s quite a list of places he’s been trespassed from.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Marcus Booth makes contact with a vehicle with two passengers. Implication of solicitation. Open container spotted on passenger side, the contents which is dumped. Booth advises the driver stop “playing games.” Citations issued. He tells driver to “tighten up.” Booth: “So obviously the citizens are tired of the BS back here as well. You see them come out saying thanks for doing the job. Just gets old. These guys know what time it is back here.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — The Benson family (Ofrs. Chris and Joe) investigate incident in which a mom says that someone was following her son home. Fire emergency unit dispatched to scene because the male was sick to his stomach. Joe Benson: “Unfortunately, he doesn’t have much descriptive details other than a dark vehicle with guys with masks on. We’re gonna patrol the area; we’ll saturate here a little bit, see if we can’t see anything suspicious, but we don’t have a registration plate or anything, so it’s gonna be a little difficult to follow with this, but we’ll see what we can do.”
Abrams: “And while many of us think about what we’re gonna do for Father’s Day tomorrow, tonight Officer Chris Benson, out there with his son Joe Benson, responding to calls, doing their job.”
Ofr. Chris Benson: “He says he was walking home with his girlfriend. Two cars came speeding by him, with a bunch of kids in the back of the car. They were masked up. They rolled down the window, and they started following him, so he started running. The cars apparently came up the wrong-way after him. He ran down around the block, started jumping some fences. Ran so fast that he actually started vomiting., but he has no description of the vehicles. Didn’t recognize anybody, and he says that he doesn’t have any beef with anybody. Randomly, I guess from what he’s saying, they just started following him, looking for trouble. We have nothing to go on here. No descriptions. No car descriptions. He said everything was dark. Again, he didn’t get anything. So we’ll keep an eye on this area tonight…according to him, it’s just random.” Benson also notes that nearby security cameras may not be helpful because “they’re more facing the sidewalk” rather than out in the road.
Abrams: “It can be frustrating as an officer if you’re not getting information…I’m not saying that the young man has information, but when you get there, no description, no nothing, you’re kind of in a tough spot.” Ayers: “What do we have to go with, and how we proceed to investigate and do our best job, if we’re not getting all the information that we need?”
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop for lights infraction. One of two occupants ran, prompting a foot chase. The suspect is later apprehended at his home. Based on his experience, Larkin raises the possibility that the runner fled because he allegedly may have had a weapon on his person.
- Wanted segment — Brickeys, Ark. Escaped inmate and accomplices.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Cops detained a woman who is sitting on the sidewalk and search her belongings. Needles found. Subject arrested.
- Fullerton, Calif. — Officers respond to young people joyriding in a parking garage. One car is stopped. Firearm allegedly found in the back seat.
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies respond to a family dispute over money that prompted an altercation of some kind in a residential cul de sac. A woman who pushed a male down the front stairs with deputies present is arrested. Wilson: “She claims that he pushed her, but they didn’t see that. When that door opened up, they saw him fly out, that she did it. So they have to go by what they see.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Booth photo bombs a rap video being filmed in a parking garage. Abrams: “Be interesting to see how that gets edited, how that ends up getting portrayed in the final version of this video.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — The elder Benson interacts with an older woman and two companions in a downtown area. The woman tries to moon for the OPL camera. Abrams: “Full moon out today.” Wilson: “A moon I know nothing about.” Abrams: “Copernicus Wilson doesn’t know anything about those kinds of moons.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Lee responds to noise complaint at an apartment complex and asks resident to turn down the music volume. Lee: “I believe my Spanish is actually getting a little better. They were partying pretty hard. I advised them to turn it down, and then they wanted to complain on him because he smokes marijuana. But music is turned down; we good to go.” Abrams: “Who’s gonna pay for language classes for Deputy Dylan Lee? It seems like every call he gets involves someone who speaks Spanish or Portuguese.” Larkin: “I think he’s got a dispatcher that might have it out for him…” Wilson: “I thought he downloaded that [language] app.” Abrams: “He did.” Ayers: “When I was a deputy, there [were] actually classes we could go to, but it was focused solely on Spanish for law enforcement…common terms and terminology we use on a day-to-day basis. It proved to be helpful.”
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies assist stranded motorist with flat tire. Abrams: “Three different people [in the studio] said the same thing…and they said, ‘why doesn’t Garo just lift up the car himself because Garo looks like he could pick up the car himself?”
- Richland County (pre-taped segment) — Follow-up to Friday night’s incident in which the small dog got loose and ran in the street. Cpl. Morrow and Sgt. Brown visit the owner at her home who was reunited with her pet. Abrams explains about the Friday night segment that “a viewer recognizes the pooch, calls the owner who is out of town, the owner’s friend then goes around searching for the dog. This morning finds the little pooch, and Cpl. Morrow and Sgt. Brown paid a little visit to the owner today.”
- Crime of the Night — A shootout between a bus driver and a passenger in Charlotte, N.C.. The latter faces multiple charges. The driver was not charged, but he was fired from the job for a company policy violation.
- Richland County, S.C. — Deputies interact with an angry man on the side of the road who claims who the victim of a strongarm robbery. Much of the dialogue is bleeped. Abrams: “Obviously a bizarre story that he is alleging there, that he had a $13,000 necklace on that was stolen at gunpoint by two people in a Mercedes.”
Sgt. Brown: “So apparently we have an officer from another jurisdiction that is familiar with this subject. He was involved in an earlier issue with some intoxication or something of that nature. He says that someone pulled up and took his gold necklace, his $13,000 gold necklace. He’s saying something about studio time. We’re not sure if any of that sounds like it makes any sense. We tried to help him. He wouldn’t answer questions. He wouldn’t give us any details, so he says he’s gonna keep on walking down to his cousin’s house, so we’re gonna let him do that. But if he needs our help, we’ll always give it to him. But right now, it doesn’t seem like he wants our help. He’s just kind of going off, and cursing, ranting and raving, so we’re gonna let him get down to his cousin’s house, and we’re gonna move on to the next thing.”
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers respond to report of a domestic incident and try to make contact with residents of the home.
- Nye County, Nev. — Deputies break up a big party where underage drinking or drug use was allegedly occurring. Dep. Jonathan Justice: “So there was a couple of juveniles here. I guess we showed up right as problems were being started. Someone shared a Facebook post that kind of got out of control at the house party that’s supposed to be for adults only, but some kids showed up. So we’re in the process of kicking the juveniles out…all juveniles got to get out because there’s drinking and possibly marijuana here…kids can’t be here. They’re all leaving. We’re gonna hang out, make sure they all get out, and as long as there are no problems tonight, we should be good.”
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Lee makes contact with man in a parked car in a parking lot who fell asleep watching a movie. The driver is unwilling to produce his ID. Caption: “Rude awakening.” Abrams update: “They ran, I guess, the tags on that guy’s car, they were able to figure out who he his, there were no issues with him, and so there were no charges in connection with that incident.”
- Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Booth provides a play by play of field sobriety test conducted by another officer on a driver. The driver is subsequently arrested for alleged impaired driving. Car search; bottles of alcohol allegedly found.
- Missing segment — Brookhaven, Pa.
- Nye County, Nev. — Dep. Joe Molinaro responds to report of a 911 hang-up call. He makes contact with the wife and then ask to speak with the husband. The latter says he was “just yelling.” Apparently there is no emergency situation.
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Officers respond to report of a apartment break in and make contact with female there. Ofr. Chris Benson: “Apparently there was a call here last night. She jumped out the window and got all bruised up…She claimed her husband’s here, but we’ve had numerous calls with her husband too. The same type of deal, like someone is trying to break in, thinks the neighborhood is after them. So we’re gonna give her a ride to her house, close to her house, and let her come back tomorrow and talk to her husband. I don’t know the circumstances or where he’s at, or if he’s in there, and doesn’t want to answer the door for her possibly…”
- Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies make contact with motorized bike driver at strip mall who might allegedly be drunk. His boss shows up in truck to pick him up.
- Fullerton, Calif.— Ofr. Marcus Futch makes traffic stop on bicyclist in connection with possible stolen bike and as the show ends, tries to locate the serial number on it.
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