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

On Patrol: Live Season 3: A recap of the June 28, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 03-92) on Reelz, anchored in the NYC studio by attorney and host/executive producer Dan Abrams along with On Patrol: Live analyst Tom Rizzo, plus guest analysts Sean “Sticks” Larkin and Bradley Taylor, follows below. Co-host Curtis Wilson has the weekend off. For those new to the show, On Patrol Live is more or less a reboot of Live PD.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

In contrast to some of the more intense recent episodes, this installment of On Patrol: live generally consisted of more routine incidents. That said, #OPNation manifested a significant social media reaction to a Lee County, Fla., traffic stop that ended up not culminating in any arrests. For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on the 24 law enforcement incidents across nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments (although Las Vegas again was not featured) during this all-new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

#OP Nation continues to send its best wishes to injured Knox County Officer/Deputy Dalton Swanger. See the latest update immediately below. [Note: In Knox County, the terms officer and deputy are generally used interchangeably.]

Deputy Dalton Swanger Update

Program Notes

  • Fan favorite Hazen PD returns to On Patrol: Live for all-new episodes on July 11-12.
  • On Patrol: Live is in reruns over the July 4th holiday weekend.
  • As previously announced, Sergeant Scotty Sadler and Officer Serenity Smith of Monroe, La., PD, will appear in the OPL studio sometime in the coming weeks.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for June 28, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-92)

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  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer John Longendorf and another unit conduct a traffic stop. Two occupants. Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Drugs and guns found.”

Officer Longendorf: “Deputy Doss made a traffic stop on this vehicle. I don’t know exactly what the reasoning was, but he had a pretty good hunch that something else was going on, just given the nervousness of the occupants of the vehicle. So pulling them out, Deputy Doss found some, what appears to be, fentanyl on one of the driver’s pockets. Search of the passenger also revealed similar straws…so search of the car, so far we’ve gotten two rifles…we’re gonna complete the search of this vehicle real quick, find out what else we can find, and we’ll go from there, but right now, we got guns and drugs, which is a good day.” On Patrol: Live host Abrams: “So now the critical question becomes criminal history, right?” On Patrol: Live guest studio analyst Bradley Taylor, the Hazen, Ark., police chief: “See if any of them are a convicted felon or anything like that with the two firearms in the car. That’s gonna play a key role in everything they got going on.” On Patrol: Live guest studio analyst Sean Larkin: “They even said they suspect there’s some drugs in there, and if there are, there’s often times a felony charge of being in the possession of a firearm where drugs are present or something like that. So that’s another possible issue for these young men.” Abrams: “And then there was also the little baggies for selling goldfish, I guess, right?…put water in those…”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — A motorcycle blows by K9 Officer John Stainback at about 120 mph; the pursuit is discontinued for safety reasons. “We’re not gonna pursue. He’s traveling at a high rate of speed. The only option for him is crashing, and if he does do that, there’s a high chance that he could be seriously injured. So it’s not worth the risk. We’re gonna basically look in the area, try to get him stopped without a pursuit.”

In the studio, to Abrams’ surprise, Chief Taylor acknowledges that even Hazen PD would not pursue under those circumstances (“if we lose sight, we’re gonna back off”):

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Stainback and another unit make a traffic stop. The driver mentions that prescription meds and herbal supplements are in the vehicle. Consensual car search. Officer Stainback alludes to “filming a documentary.” Abrams jokes that “the sort of supplements you’d find probably in Tom Rizzo’s car.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Same thing, and the green cup.”

Abrams: “…this woman…says she has just prescription drugs and some supplements…again, we have supplement expert Ton Rizzo in house. If we need to identify a particular supplement, we’ll be inquiring.”

  • Moore, Okla. — After making contact and getting information from the complainants, Sergeant Maria Delgado canvases a residential neighborhood for a male prowler who allegedly tried to open the front door of their home. Sgt. Delgado: “So they report a male wearing a backpack and tablet. A lot of the times that description is usually a vendor, but they were persistent in trying to sell, if that’s what they were trying to do. So we’re gonna go ahead and check the area.” Sergeant Justin Sternberg is also looking for the subject who headed to other people’s homes. Sergeant Delgado subsequently adds that “we didn’t see anybody matching the description. At this point, nothing other than he or she being suspicious. So we’re just gonna go check the area a little bit longer and then continue receiving calls.”

Abrams: “Are we gonna guess what this person may be trying to hawk?” Rizzo: “I’m gonna say windows.” Abrams: “Windows? Interesting…back in the day, it was encyclopedias.” Rizzo: “Or magazines…” Abrams: “…they’re both not a thing anymore.” Abrams: “They’re searching for someone wearing blue who was fiddling with doorknobs.” Larkin: “You’ve got blue.” Abrams: “I do, but there’s no way I could be there right now, so I have an alibi.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — After a foot pursuit, cops including Deputies Mondre Rambo and Rudy Davis and Sergeant Jamel Stiggers subdue and detain a male who was allegedly loitering outside a store. A K9 finds drugs that the suspect allegedly tossed during the chase. Officer on scene: “The actual narcotics was recovered by one of the…K9s here as they did a phenomenal job…finding the rest of the narcotics that he put in the tree line. So he’d be looking at a couple of charges that he had to bond out on, and hopefully he learned his lesson in reference to hanging out out here and not conducting any business and having narcotics on his person.” Abrams: “Who says drugs can’t grow on trees? Apparently they can. I just saw one growing on that tree.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Possibly acting on a tip, Deputy Malik Clark and Lieutenant Brandon Warren conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint on a vehicle that initially didn’t pull over for about a mile and allegedly ran a red light in the process. Two occupants: apparently a mother and son. Guns and weed allegedly found in the vehicle. Police subsequently release the occupants with no charges.

Listen to Deputy Clark explain what originally led up to the stop:

Listen to Lt. Warren and the motorist engage in a somewhat contentious dialogue over the issue of pulling over immediately (“…I wasn’t evading. I put my flashers on to acknowledge that I saw you guys…”):

Abrams: “Captain Rizzo, you were saying that the source of the tip here becomes relevant.” Rizzo: “Courts have upheld it to be inherently reliable if an off-duty police officer were to give the information that establishes the probable cause. It’s directly observed, so they can act on that…” Abrams: “Which is different than if it was a civilian.” Rizzo: “Then it would have to be corroborated.”

In the audio clip embedded below, Lt. Warren explains, among other things, that the male allegedly just got out of jail and the mom had just picked up him up:

Abrams: “Well, interesting move by mom here in sort of welcoming her son back home.” Rizzo: “A sandwich would have been nice. Not two handguns.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. – Detective Maycon MacDowel and other units make contact with a man sitting in the middle of the road. Backpack searched. Detective MacDowel: “So we did a quick jump-out. As soon as I got out of the car, I saw he had some weed on him. We’re gonna test it. He doesn’t have a medical card or anything. It’s not properly packaged…so most likely, he bought it from somebody off the street. So if you have a medical card, it’s properly packaged and everything, it’s fine, but this right here definitely bought off the street. If you’re gonna smoke weed, if you want to use THC or whatever, you got to do it the right way.” K9 Detective Roger Lawson jokes to Det. MacDowel about the “bug spray — it keeps the bugs away, but not the devil’s lettuce.” Det. MacDowel subsequently explains that “…nothing illegal about it. It’s pretty much just hemp. So he’s good to go. He cooperated. We tested it. It didn’t test positive, so he’s good to go.”

Abrams: “We were just talking about the fact that many departments don’t test that and wouldn’t have been able to clear him in that way, right?” Larkin: “Right, and speaking for just at least Oklahoma, the three of us were talking about it, the courts have recognized that police officers are experts in identifying marijuana.” Abrams: “…but this apparently was effectively hemp.” Taylor: “…His good attitude in letting him go, too.” Rizzo” “Get jammed up for the devil’s lettuce.” Abrams: “The devil’s lettuce. It was apparently not, though, the devil’s lettuce. That was apparently just lettuce.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Detective Marcin Kaziuk initiates a traffic stop for no tag light. “It’s a documentary series.” Driver: “I just don’t want to be on no TV.” Det. Kaziuk claims he smells weed. “Is [your marijuana] license valid?” Driver: “Should be.” The driver denies having any weed in the car. The vehicle has an interesting vanity license plate.

Detective Kaziuk summary: “So we pulled this vehicle over because the tag light on the license plate itself isn’t illuminating the tag. When I made contact with the occupants of the vehicle, the odor of marijuana was coming from within the vehicle. Speaking with her, she did say that she smoked some marijuana before entering the vehicle, so we’re just gonna wait for another unit and then conduct a search of the vehicle.” Abrams: “She says there’s no marijuana in the vehicle. He says it smells like marijuana. It could be sort of her signature scent..,perfume or something that happens to smell like marijuana…and, of course, when you have a license plate that says ‘Suspek,’ you are potentially drawing attention to your vehicle…maybe; I don’t know for sure. I’m not a cop.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeant James Maher and Detective MacDowel detain two men allegedly involved in a alleged drug transaction. Abrams introduces the segment by asserting that “it was the suspect and not the police who got an assist from a K9.” The seller is arrested. Sergeant Maher decides against arresting the buyer, an older man, so he doesn’t have to lock up the man’s dog.

Listen to audio of the incident in which Sergeant Maher explains, in part that, “…the dog gets to go home. Dealer’s a hundred percent going to jail. User should honestly, probably, go to jail, but because of the dog, we’re not gonna do that. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing by animals.” The sergeant also noted that the user will eventually be subject to a warrant. Abrams: “Showing again why a dog is man’s best friend, in that particular case saving him from getting arrested.” Taylor: “No doggie jail.” Abrams: “…effectively, that’s what would happen.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Thomas Goble and the Violent Crime Apprehension Team (VCAT) pursue a fleeing vehicle. Stop sticks successfully deployed. The vehicle finally pulls over; traffic stop at gunpoint. Three occupants. Police arrest a driver and a passenger.

Detective MacDowel: “…he fled from us multiple times. I don’t even know how this man is still free…so next time, he gets arrested, go through the system, hopefully they do a great job and keep him in prison. He should not be out right now.” Officer Goble: “Attempted to do a traffic stop on this vehicle for numerous traffic violations. Before I was even able to get up to it to try to light it up, it started driving at a high rate of speed. I was able to get lights and sirens on it, and it officially fled from me. Called it out on the radio. Luckily, VCAT was working. They were able to assist us, and we got a good stop-stick deployment on the vehicle. Driver, who’s now in custody, decided to jump into the back seat, and the vehicle came to rest here. We were able to take everybody into custody or detain them safely. Nobody’s injured. Driver’s gonna be going to jail. Unfortunately for him, he’s known to us. He’s been arrested numerous times, so looking like he’s gonna be going back to jail, most likely prison, after this, but we’ll see.”

Sergeant James Maher: “Don’t do this because we’re gonna catch you; you’re not gonna get away. This is not the movies. You put everybody at risk, and we’re gonna do everything we can to make sure that you spend as much time as possible in prison.”

Officer Goble follow-up: “So the female passenger, right now she’s in custody for at least resisting. She refused to get out of the vehicle. They had to physically remove her from the vehicle. She fought with the officers a little bit. No injuries, luckily. Nobody’s hurt or anything like that, which is good. She tried to claim to be the driver, but like I said, myself and Detective [Noah] Galbreath witnessed the driver jump into the back passenger seat. Unfortunately for her, she got a misdemeanor resisting charge. She’s currently on an active probation as well for narcotics-related charges, so if she would have just cooperated with us and got out of the car, she probably would have been released with no charges, but because she resisted, she’s gonna have a violation of her felony probation, as well, on top of the resisting. So unfortunately for her, she’s gonna be going to jail tonight as well. We’re gonna finish our inventory of the vehicle, get it towed, and we’ll start writing some paperwork.”

Abrams: “It seems it was a pretty big guy who was getting out of the driver’s seat and trying to switch while the car was moving.” Taylor: “I don’t know why he didn’t get hung up.” Abrams: “…the cops are there watching it happen. You see this happen often where people try and switch?..” Larkin: “Not often…I’ve seen it happen afterwards, try to do the old switcheroo in the car. You’re watching it happen as you’re standing behind it; not during the pursuit.” Abrams: “That’s a little more dangerous, particularly for someone that size.”

  • Triple Play #3 — A Sheridan, Ark., high-speed pursuit.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Detective Nick Scaduto makes a traffic stop at a gas station. Male driver, female passenger. The driver makes reference to the Cops TV show. Later in the stop, Detective Scaduto says “they’re filming a documentary right now.” In response to a question, the female who says she has no ID, and who also mentions she’s a DJ, acknowledges that she has a warrant, but “not from here.” According to the detective, there is a potential seat belt violation on her part. The alleged warrant is apparently non-extraditable from Colorado. The driver apparently had a potential traffic violation. The duo end up being released with just warnings.

Abrams: “So the investigation continues here, but there could be a group of music lovers who are gonna have to wait a little bit longer. Rizzo: “Play it on repeat.” Abrams: “Yeah, before she can get in there and spin.”

Abrams: “So the bad news for them is that they’ve been pulled over and she has a warrant out of Colorado which she says she’s gonna handle. The good news is she’s only been living there three months. She’s getting a ton of gigs in the neighborhood.” Larkin: “Heavily booked.” Abrams: “She’s got booking after booking for these DJ gigs.”

Listen to Det. Scaduto wrap up this stop after which Abrams quips that “the music fans are gonna be soon treated to a show, which is good”:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Kenny Fitzsimmons and Corporal TJ Norton along with the fire department respond to a car accident. The vehicle is in a ditch. The state highway patrol is en route to likely take over the investigation. Corporal Norton seems to imply that another vehicle might possibly be involved and makes reference to the acronym LPR. Chief Taylor: “License plate readers. And they are a valuable tool to law enforcement right now…chasing somebody and all of a sudden you can punch in on the computer and start looking up stop light he went through.” Abrams: “And we’ve seen it on this show, even a partial license can help them catch criminals out there.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Detective Ryan Bradshaw and another unit make a traffic stop. Consensual car search. The driver is released with no charges; the passenger is taken into custody on a warrant.

Deputy Bradshaw incident synopsis: “So that was very confusing. Long story short, we have a very extensive history with our driver here, including various narcotics warrants. Deputy Woodcock here stopped the vehicle leaving one of our gas stations. Driver has given us consent after a very difficult answer. He did give us consent to search his car. The passenger in the backseat has a warrant out of Christian County. So he’s probably gonna be taking a right tonight. That’s kind of where we’re at right now. We’re kind of waiting on confirmation for his warrant, and we’re gonna search the car, and kind of go from there. So that’s what we’re about to do right now.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Abrams provides a positive update on injured Knox County Deputy Dalton Swanger’s condition that is consistent with the statement from the sheriff’s office posted above:
  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Police, including Deputies Rambo and Davis, as well as Lt. Warren, respond to an incident in which a man on the sidewalk was allegedly hit by a truck after exiting a bus. Cops investigate the circumstances on scene and take the driver into custody.

Listen to audio of the the incident after which Abrams explains that “the victim was stable when he arrived at the hospital. The driver blew a .066, which is actually below the legal limit for a full DUI, but was charged with what’s called DUI Less Safe, which is a lower standard based on the facts here”:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Cops pursue a fleeing vehicle. Traffic stop at gunpoint. The car is empty, however, and is impounded. Police and a K9 Mercy search the area on foot for the driver. Abrams: “So they’ve got sightings of this guy. They’re convinced he’s right in that area. This is the vehicle they’re looking for…”
  • Hazen, Ark. — Listen to the #AskChiefTaylor Q&A session:
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Fitzsimmons and other units assist a neighboring agency in a search for a driver who foot bailed. Failure to stop for blue lights and reckless driving are the allegations. K9 Specialist John O’Shaughnessy deploys K9 Bobi in the search. Sgt. Fitzsimmons: “Absolutely no perimeter.” Abrams: “You can tell Sergeant Fitzsimmons [is] a little frustrated. There was no perimeter set up when he arrived there, and there is take-out there as well. So that could be another potential clue they could use. Maybe go back to where he ordered it, but it seems like they know who it is.”

Listen to Sgt Fitzsimmons discuss the importance of establishing a perimeter:

Abrams: “Second night in a row in Richland County, where someone has fled on foot. They have found a shoe, and they have been able to identify the person –might describe these as real ‘Cinderella stories.'”

  • Moore, Okla. — Sergeant Justin Sternberg initiates a traffic stop. “What’s in your hand?…open your hand…get your a** out of the car…nice try…” The driver is detained. On Patrol: Live caption: “Cocaine found.” Sgt. Sternberg: “…he was trying to put it in his pocket when I was reading the VIN or fixing to read the VIN…we’ll do a field test of it and confirm what it is. If it’s in fact cocaine, he’s gonna go to jail tonight.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Cops including Officer Longendorf conduct a traffic stop at at a gas station. “They’re filming a documentary.” Officer Longendorf mentions that the driver is allegedly a sovereign citizen. Consensual car search. The officer also quips after apparently checking the driver’s mouth, “meth will do that. It’s not a good dental plan.” In response to the driver indicating his license is restricted after Officer Longerdorf asks “what’s up with your license?,” he then says “I guess that’s a roundabout way to say that you’re revoked.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Cops attempt to serve a warrant at a residence but the subject is apparently not there.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective MacDowel provides backup on a felony traffic stop in connection with a burglary allegation. Cops are going to bring the victim to the scene for a show-up to see if that person can identify the suspect. If identified, “he’s gonna go to jail.” Abrams mentions that Det. MacDowel is leaving Daytona Beach PD for a new job in Massachusetts.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal Norton and other units respond to a disturbance. On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of fight.” Deputies detain two males on scene. A woman on scene provides information to Cpl. Norton; her car window appears busted. The woman seems to make a reference to Live PD.
  • McDonald County, Mo. — Deputy Travis Sheppard and other units clear a residence or outside the residence perhaps in connection with some sort of disturbance. Deputy Sheppard: “We didn’t see anything here. The grass is wetted up…there’s no footprints on the steps. It could have been anything from a bird — no telling. The gunshots she said she heard…there’s fireworks going off in town or on the other side of town. But at this point, it’s unfounded, so we’re gonna move on.”
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