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

A recap of the June 22, 2024, On Patrol: Live episode (OPL #02-86), anchored in the NYC studio by host Dan Abrams, along with co-host Curtis Wilson, and this weekend’s guest analyst, Cpt. Tom Rizzo, appears below.

Several of the incidents in this particular episode are unresolved or without any further explanation or updates.

During the show, Abrams announces that by popular demand, the June 29 OPL episode will expand to four hours, with a bonus hour airing from 12 midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern time. Some of the social media reaction appears below.

The additional coverage is significant inasmuch as regular OPL viewers have noticed that criminal activity depicted on the show often heats up just as an episode goes off the air and when Abrams says “we’re out of time.”

Note: Click here for the OPL #02-85, June 21, 2024, recap.

On Patrol: Live Summary for June 22, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-86)

Please review this important DISCLAIMER.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (just before air) — Dep. Rachel Salka and other units investigate an alleged dispute between a driver and a passenger. A man at the scene seems very dissatisfied with the investigation. Dep. Salka to the man: “…We’re not trying to take one side or the other; it’s not about that. We have to listen to both sides, and we have to figure out what actually happened. But like I said, y’all stories both are, at this point in time, plausible, the way that y’all are claiming that it occurred. Now we got to get down to the bottom of that…so the only thing I’m gonna say to that is trying to slow down a vehicle with your body is probably not the smartest thing to do anywhere, right?…there’s a law called pedestrian on the roadway that you can go to jail for. So I’m trying to explain to you…you still have to watch out for traffic as you cross the road…all I’m saying is if you see someone speeding, stepping out front is not the way to handle it. Call us and let us know so we can come out and handle it ourselves…”

“…trying to slow down a vehicle with your body is probably not the smartest thing to do anywhere,..”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor, Sgt. Clayton Dillion, and other units conduct a traffic stop for speeding. The driver consents to a car search, but does not consent to unlocking his luggage. K9 Bosco alerts. OPL guest analyst Cpt. Tom Rizzo: “The dog is making an indication on an odor that’s either there or could have recently been there. And you’re allowed to do that if somebody declines a consent, if it’s readily available, and you have that reasonable or articulable suspicion that you still want to go with it. So that’s what they’re doing here, and they’ll see what the deal is.: OPL host Dan Abrams: “And also the Bibles have like little spaces.” Rizzo: “They have voids in it. Obviously, it’s not a legit Bible there. It’s meant to conceal something. So again, it could be somebody that’s involved in something or maybe not.” The driver subsequently opens up the cases. No drugs found. The driver is released with a warning for speeding.

“…that’s the first time I’ve ever gotten pure silver.”

Chief Taylor recap: “So after all that, he said his friends had been around — might have had some narcotics in a book. But Bosco alerted, and that’s the first time I’ve ever gotten pure silver. And he probably had $50,000 worth in there. So we give him a warning for the speeding. Let him go.”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Lindsey Erhart, Brooke Janowiecki, joined by Mike Gee, and Chris Mulinix, are flagged down on report of a fight at a convenience store/gas station. Two males are questioned. The purported victim claims the other male punched him and knocked out several teeth. Abrams mentions that cops are “trying to de-escalate and investigate at the same time here.” Employees indicate that surveillance footage will become available on Monday when the owner comes in to work.

Ofr. Mulinix explains the next legal steps to the victim: “I’ll have the report done. It’ll document that there was an assault at the back of the store, and everything. She said she can’t get the videotape right now until the boss comes in. So, I’ll document the whole report. You need to follow up with the prosecutor on Monday, okay? And then you can file charges on him. His name and social will be in there. You’ll be able to follow all this stuff, okay? And then you can swear an affidavit saying that everything is true and accurate. And then if you need a copy of this, you can come up here, try to avoid him, but come up. here, call for a police crew, and get the videotape., okay?” Ofr. Mulinix then encourages the man to head home. “So, why don’t you grab your backpack so we make sure you get off the property safely.” Abrams: “So he’s gonna have to follow up to file that report if he decides to do that.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Desirae Klumpp responds to a report of shoplifting and gathers information on the incident from employees and reviews security camera video.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Mike Bryant and Ofr. Robert Mowery patrol the13th annual Rum Fest. Abrams: There is always a fest [in Daytona]…I’m looking up what Captain Morgan looks like to see if that is, in fact, someone dressed up — no…”
  • Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Natalie Given searches for an individual who allegedly stole from AutoZone. A pedestrian runs off when she tries to make contact with him. Master Ofr. Butch Rockwell locates the man, takes him to the ground, and detains him with backup, and pending store employees who may or may not identify him. The subject, who is allegedly homeless, appears to admit being in the store, but denies taking anything. He subsequently appears to admit allegedly stealing spray paint. He also apparently has warrants.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka assists her colleagues and a neighboring agency in a pursuit of a fleeing vehicle which is subsequently stopped with two occupants detained.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Mowery and colleagues search for a man who allegedly jumped out of a vehicle driven by a female and robbed someone at gunpoint and then fled. A neighboring agency finds the car parked somewhere. In the course of the investigation, officers try to find the suspect in a one of the hotel rooms in a hotel where he supposedly stayed a few times according to the front desk or in a car outside the hotel but are unable to locate him.

Ofr. Mowery interim summary: “…the vehicle been parked for a while. Supposedly that this is an ongoing thing between a male and a female. We still haven’t located a reporting party. And they’re just trying to get each other in trouble. So we don’t know if we have a robbery. We don’t know if we have a domestic situation. Nobody can locate the reporting person to actually get the information we need, so we’re sourcing through old calls and looking up information to try to figure this whole thing out. But right now, we have a whole lot of nothing. The male subject in reference to this call likely has an open warrant. And the person calling this in is likely trying to get this person picked up on that warrant. It sounds like a back-and-forth thing that’s been going on for a little while now because we have priors with the phone number…” Daytona allegedly has an open, domestic violence warrant for the suspect, who is also wanted on other charges in the neighboring jurisdiction.”

Ofr. Mowery update: “…The lack of information in this case, and the simple fact that right now, it looks like we’re running around like chickens with out heads cut off without much information. We’re all gonna clear from here…we’ll get more information probably later on and be able to get him, but for right now, it is what it is.”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Erhart and Janowiecki respond to armed armed robbery call at a grocery store. The suspect fled the scene on a bicycle, and the duo searches the area for him.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Bryce Hughes and other deputies respond to the scene of a fight in progress. Abrams: “Curtis is just pointing out that there is a… curfew in this village, which gives them the authority to say to anyone who’s under a certain age, you’ve got to go home. The security officer there is saying that’s exactly what she wants done here. And Curtis [is] also pointing out they had a lot of problems in this area. So the store owners there really, Curtis is telling us, getting a little tired of these situations that keep occurring there again and again. Police trying to help.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka conducts a traffic stop outside a convenience store for alleged erratic driving. The motorist denies being under the influence of anything and explains that he was up all night working. Consensual car search. The driver is apparently released with a warning.
  • Robeson County, N.C. — Dep. Donel McCallum provides backup to his colleagues in a traffic stop. Two occupants. K9 deployed. The passenger briefly tries to run and is immediately taken the ground by Dep. McCallum. Heavy bleeping. Car search. Drugs and a cash allegedly found. Cpt. Rizzo alludes to the passenger’s encounter with McCallum when he tried to flee as “a lesson in physics.”

Listen to Dep. McCallum’s summary:

  • Triple Play #3 — a Sunnyvale, Calif., smash and grab at a jewelry store. Cpt. Rizzo suggests that the suspects already in custody will give police information about the rest of the crew in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Kenny Fitzsimmons initiates a traffic stop on a slow roller. She is is apparently released with a warning.

Sgt. Fitzsimmons: “Said she didn’t see me, but these lights are pretty bright. It’s pretty dark out. How do you not see that?” Abrams: “And not just see it, hear it. He said what about the wee-woo: wee-woo, wee-woo, wee-woo….”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Cpl. Hannah Reed conducts a traffic stop for a tail light issue in a segment that Abrams introduces as an incident in which one of occupant’s problems became “crystal clear.” The passenger allegedly tossed some weed out of the window, which is subsequently stomped on the ground. Cpl. Reed to driver: “Do you have something inside of you?” The distraught woman, who has a child in the backseat, admits to having drugs in her private area. The passenger is released. The grandparents arrive for the child and to drive the car home.

Cpl. Reed summary: “It’s only possession, right, it’s not much, but unfortunately, it’s not supposed to be having meth around here, so I got to do what we got to do… Tonight, she needs that kick in the butt that says, you are going to jail tonight, no matter what you say, no matter what you do. Make this time the last. I feel for her; my heart does hurt. I hate that she’s going through this, but she clearly is not getting it. She has to figure this out. Hopefully tonight, she’ll figure something out, at least to start making some better choices.” Abrams: “Grandma not happy there, but it’s another example of officers determining that the best interest of the kids has to come first.” Dep. Wilson: “They don’t want to put the kid into the system, so they call another family member as well to come, so that they don’t do an emergency protective custody of this child, which again, like you said, they bend it over backwards to keep this child out of the system.” Abrams: “Even though the dad was released — it seems the dad was released..” Abrams: “And I know what else just for myself with this, but the game changed when I became a father and a police officer. It’s just difficult when you see these kids — they’re innocent, they have nothing to do with it. So we always try to keep that as a frame of mind.”

  • BOLO segment — Columbus, Ohio, porch pirate.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Fitzsimmons conducts a traffic stop on a tow truck as apart of an investigation into a similar vehicle that allegedly might be stealing cars. The sergeant determines that the driver is not the suspect and quickly releases him after a license check. He does jovially tell the man that “your driving history suck, but your good now”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Abrams and OPL pay tribute to K9 Wick, who died in the line of duty.
  • Everett, Wash. — Ofr. Given makes a quick, friendly check on a disabled vehicle being pushed into a parking lot. The driver says he’s good and doesn’t need help. Ofr. Given: “I was gonna help push these guys’ car in the parking spot if they didn’t get it out of the roadway, but they didn’t, so they didn’t need any help. he driver says he’s good and doesn’t need help. Upon a question posed by Abrams, social media speculates on the identify of the man depicted in the window decal.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Hughes and other units respond to a man passed out or sleeping on the sidewalk. The manage to wake him up. A bottle of Nyquil and open containers spotted. The subject appears talkative, including commenting on Dep. Wilson’s broadcasting skills or lack thereof. Sgt. Hughes: “I don’t understand anything about this conversation to be honest with you.” Abrams jokes that the subject’s Curtis-related comments were the only thing he understood in that conversation.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — The Maher brothers conduct a traffic stop on an alleged stolen trailer. One or more occupants are detained at gunpoint.

Sgt. Maher recap which includes a [pop-culture reference to decepticons from the Transformers movie franchise: “We running all the VIN numbers, serial numbers, and everything we can find because it’s a weird accoutrements of items to have on the a giant, stolen trailer…just ran the number on the back of this beautiful Honda Watercraft, and it came back on a trailer out of Florida. So I now have a jet ski with registration plates for a trailer on top of a trailer that has no VIN number on top of a trailer with an altered VIN number with a tag that we can discover is stolen. A couple guns in the car. So at this point, we’re leaning toward possibly a turnover to the state attorney’s office. He’s still detained. We’re gonna let the road sergeants in this district figure out whether or not they’re gonna make a physical arrest or turn over to the state attorney’s office. So I’m gonna get out of here because I’m very confused.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Klumpp and other units conduct a amicable traffic stop for an alleged seatbelt violation. The vehicle also has a cracked windshield. During a car search, Ofr. Klumpp finds a pet turtle known as read-eared slider, and jokes that the turtle wasn’t wearing a seatbelt either. “Is he a nice turtle?…he’s a cute little turtle — rather than kissing a frog, kissing a turtle?” Caption: “Shell game in session.” Nothing illegal found in the car. The driver is released with a warning. Abrams: “Guess it’s better to have a crack in your windshield than some other form of crack.” Wilson: “This is true.”

Daytona Beach, Fla. — A driver is arrested for alleged reckless driving after initially being released from a traffic stop with a warning. “I didn’t even do nothing.” Sgt. Selina Puentes: “Arrest his ass.” Ofr. Mowery separately makes contact with the the subject’s girlfriend nearby who indicates that the couple’s earlier argument was verbal only.

Sgt. Puentes explanation: “The very confrontational gentleman was let off with a careless driving ticket, which is less than the reckless that he was going to get, which he should have gotten. But we don’t like to mess people up and stuff like that. As soon as he was released, he decided to, once again, squeal his tires, try to drive around my vehicle, and then again, at the light, do the same thing and spin his tires. With that, you lose control of your car, you can hit any pedestrian, hit another car, anything like that. So, now he can go to jail for the reckless. We’ll tow the car, take his gun.”

“Arrest his ass.”

Abrams: “He was initially blaming the first incident on a woman in another car, not the passenger, a woman in another car. Then he did that, and Captain Rizzo, as he did that, you made the comment that you’ve seen this happen before.” Rizzo: “A hundred percent, and they walk themselves into it, and motor vehicle offenses of certain natures, like reckless driving, they are arrestable offenses.” Abrams: “And as we were watching it, you were saying that you’ve seen it happen, meaning, where someone does it right in front of you.” Rizzo: “Right in front of us, as we were giving a break. And it’s almost unbelievable what happens. It takes a moment to realize what’s happening right in front of your face. You’re like,’ this can’t be real.’ I’ll never understand it. And then with a gun in the car as well…”

Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Erhart and Janowiecki along with other units respond to a report of a fight in a residential neighborhood.

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Dep. Salka and a colleague arrest a motorist after the latter apparently refuses to participate in field sobriety testing. Car towed. Abrams: “Pretty straightforward in just about every jurisdiction. You refuse a field sobriety test, first thing is that you’ll end up in cuffs.” Wilson: “And a suspended license.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Dep. Tony Le and other units make contact with a man sitting on the sidewalk. “I guess he got beat up.” Cocaine allegedly found. Paramedics summoned to the scene. Possible language barrier.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies pursue a car in connection with an alleged shots-fired incident. As the OPL episode concludes, it appears hat the subject vehicle may have wrecked out and the suspect might be detained.