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: As reflected on social media, a sleeping driver in Vegas, a contentious traffic stop in Daytona, several hit-and-run accidents, individuals who needed to wear belts, and a ferret named Stella were noteworthy during this On Patrol: Live episode guide. See below for details on the 22 law enforcement incidents across eight On Patrol: Live police departments during this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for June 6, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-85)

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  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Chris Espinoza and other cops respond to the scene for a driver passed out behind the wheel in the middle of the road. On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of unconscious driver.” Police bang on the door, window, and roof, but the driver doesn’t wake up. One officer is finally able to break the window on the passenger side, and the driver, age 23, is pulled out of the car. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “It was a rude awakening when they finally broke the passenger side window, put the car in park, and got him out.” Some initial resistance. The driver allegedly told cops he consumed about two beers and smoked weed. Car search. On Patrol: Live caption: “Gun found.” Abrams: “Not a good time after work for this guy.” The driver is arrested for alleged DUI after field sobriety testing.

Officer on scene: “When you start tensing up like that and trying to like square up on us, dude, we’re not playing games, dude. I’m here to safe your life to make sure you’re good…next time, when police are trying to talk to you and grab you, it’s for a reason. We’re not doing it just because…”

Abrams: “It was a rude awakening when they finally broke the passenger side window, put the car in park, and got him out.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Christian Stearley and other units make contact with a pedestrian outside a convenience store who allegedly might be loitering. Lt Stearley: “On a scale of Sunday church sober and blackout drunk, where are you at right now?…” Subject: “I’m like 10 right now.” Lt. Stearley: “You’re leaning like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.” Cops ask the subject to pour out an open container, advise him that public drinking is illegal in the jurisdiction, and release him with warning.

Listen to Lieutenant Stearley interact with the subject followed by a summary from Lieutenant Joseph Toombs:

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Lieutenant Paul Yacobozzi plus other units and paramedics responds to a multi-vehicle accident involving a rollover. Only minor injuries. A state trooper conducts field sobriety testing on one driver; she is subsequently arrested for alleged DUI. Abrams: “…one of the tests is can you follow the directions of exactly how many steps to take.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Follow directions, and normally the longer that those tests go, and prolong, you’ll see indicators sometimes.”

Lt. Yacobozzi summary: “It sounds like it’s gonna be two separate crashes. It looks like this car rolled; looks like they may have hit the wall. I’m not a hundred percent sure, but definitely rolled, and then behind that, the car stopped after seeing the crash. It looks like there’s gonna be a chain-reaction crash…” Lt. Yacobozzi follow-up: “Real quick, when I was walking back, I observed what looked like…tire marks in this wall. And then I saw tire marks on this wall where it goes up. But talking to everybody, walking back, it looks like everybody’s got minor injuries. Everybody’s awake, talking, neck and back pain, so it could have been a lot worse. The driver of the car — they’re gonna investigate for the cause of the crash. It looks like she’s up and walking. Passengers are up and walking. Everybody here — it sound like it just might be four patients…at this point, it looks like very minor injuries or minor injuries. But we have EMS still assessing them, but everybody’s awake and talking. This could’ve been a lot worse. I’m gonna assist the highway patrol and see what they got. And if this is more than one crash, then I’ll probably just handle one of these…”

Abrams: “This is yet another example of how this program can really give you an inside view of a police officer arriving immediately at a scene. For those of you not in law enforcement, typically you’ll just be driving by. This now gives you the opportunity to see an officer arriving, trying to figure out what happened, assessing the situation.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Roger Carlin and Detective Brandon Ramirez assist other units in taking a man who is reportedly resisting into custody and who is subdued on the ground following a traffic stop. The stop may have been originally the result of a routine seat-belt violation. “I’m not doing nothing, bro…I know my rights…I didn’t resist…I can’t breathe…” Bleeping. Cops have to forcefully put the irate man, who was a passenger in the subject car, into a transport vehicle. Car search. According to Abrams, the passenger and driver are brothers, and their mom arrives on scene.

“I’m not doing nothing, bro…”

Officer Carlin: “So Detective [Noah] Galbreath was conducting a traffic stop on this vehicle. We’re just responding as backup, and the passenger was refusing to get out of the vehicle.” Detective Ramirez: “…he refused to exit the vehicle. They removed him from the vehicle where he continued to fight and resist. Officers were able to detain him. Upon searching him, they ended up [unintelligible] narcotics. And as you can see, he’s continuing to kick in, trying to damage the patrol vehicle, and stuff like that.” Abrams: “So now the guy is in the back of the van, and they are searching the vehicle, gathering any other evidence there…”

Listen to the On Patrol: Live studio panel discuss, among other issues, how state law varies when it comes to requiring a passenger to show ID (On Patrol: Live co-host Deputy Curtis Wilson also notes that “the more you become resistant, the more animated you are, the more our ‘Spidey senses’ tingle…”)

Listen to Detective Galbreath explain what happened at stop to the mom (Abrams: “Mama justice can often be the most difficult justice to deal with.”):

“Mama justice can often be the most difficult justice to deal with.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective Ramirez searches for an alleged hit-and-run driver and inadvertently runs over some debris in the roadway in the process. A neighbor had blocked in the suspect vehicle with his vehicle. Detective Ramirez detains the driver. Investigation ongoing.

Detective Ramirez initial recap: “So call came out, hit and run, and we got flagged down as we were coming down the road. There’s headlights in the middle of the road along with a bumper, and we got flagged down. This guy in this truck said he blocked them in down here. This is a one-way road. It dead-ends right here. And obviously, this vehicle’s been in a fresh accident. I’m sure we can probably match one of those headlights in the middle of the road back there to one of the headlights here along with the bumper. They have a case of Modelo in the passenger seat as well, so we’re just gonna be waiting for a Spanish-speaking officer to get here…so we can just continue the investigation.”

Listen to Detective Ramirez outline the circumstances of the accident after which he adds that “…we got him…that’s a happy ending for this story. I’m sure that he’s probably gonna be going to jail tonight for DUI in a hit and run”:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Richland County, S.C. — Lieutenant Chris Blanding responds to a hit-and-run accident in which a motorist allegedly fled from the scene. Another deputy takes a suspect in custody. An open Modelo allegedly spotted. Watch/listen to Lt. Blanding’s summary below:

Abrams: “Once again, seeing as officers arrive on a scene, they’re trying to piece it together, and these are not necessarily people who are gonna make the final determination, but they can assess pretty quickly what happened.” Rizzo: “Doing it long enough and having the experience of, you see, car A lands, and car B. They’re able to almost determine which car proceeded, and which one made the turn in front of the other one, which one proceeded to cause the crash. It’s just from experience of doing it long.” Abrams: “And there’s evidence there that you can look at.” Wilson: “It’s all about reconstruction, and the tracks of the accident where you see the damage on the vehicles.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Gabriel Marquez respond to a domestic disturbance and searches for a suspect. The officer spots a pedestrian who apparently matches the description and who runs; he is subdued after a brief foot pursuit. Officer Marquez: “Other than your pride being hurt, anything else hurts?”…you’re a grown man; you decided to run.” The victim is arrested for alleged domestic battery. “When a police officer tells you to stop, you got to stop, man. You’re too old for this kind of stuff.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Stearley, Deputy Chris Johnson, and Lieutenant Toombs conduct a traffic stop for no plate. Lt. Stearley responds “I gotcha” when gathering info from the driver. The driver indicates there is no contraband in the car and declines a consensual search. K9 deployed; K9 alert. Probable cause car search. According to Deputy Johnson, “Lieutenant Toombs is probably gonna place this guy under arrest for suspended license…if there’s anything else inside this vehicle, he’ll get additional charges for that.”

Lieutenant Toombs discusses the dangers of meth: “…and with this type of situation, when you have people that use the methamphetamine that you get from like some of these small-time sellers in a lot of these little country towns and backwood areas, they use a lot of different chemicals that are household chemicals and things of that nature that you can buy from the store in America. So a lot of these different batches of methamphetamine they have will have all type of harsh chemicals in it, and it’s not gonna be — how can I say –it’s not gonna be a well-balanced drug. So it rots out their teeth. It ages them super fast. They look horrible a lot of times when they use that stuff. So that lets you know right there when people are meth users a lot of times: Teeth are rotted out or missing. And a lot of times you see it looks like their eyes are sunk into the back of their head almost.” The lieutenant also allegedly finds a stove of some kind. “This dude ain’t using this to go camping, but I can guarantee you he’s probably using this to cook up some meth, He probably makes his own.”

Abrams update: “Turns out no drugs, no meth, was found, but the driver was arrested for a suspended license, unregistered vehicle, and no tag.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Carlin searches the area for a burglary suspect after the homeowner spots an intruder on video.
  • Triple Play #1 — a Texarkana, Ark., motorcycle pursuit.

Abrams: “The one thing I’ve learned from this show is if you’re gonna flee from police, don’t do it in Arkansas…the fact that they can do a PIT maneuver on a motorcycle…on a serious note, the guy’s now on the run, so please make that call if anyone has any information about it.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Cooper Bagwell, with K9 Officer Jill Herman, initiates a traffic stop on a truck. The driver says he was arrested the night before and just got the vehicle out of the impound lot. “I didn’t do nothing.” Officer Bagwell: “I’m just doing my job. I don’t know why you’re freaking out.” Abrams: “I can understand why [the driver is] feeling frustrated even if it wasn’t intentional, even if it was coincidental.” Abrams: “They’re trying to figure out if there were items that have been put in the car that were not there last night…” Abrams refers to the man as the “bad luck dude who was arrested last night for meth.” After a car search, the driver is released with a warning. A small amount of weed plus an adult item were allegedly found during the search. Officer Bagwell: “I ain’t touching that.”

Officer Bagwell initial, pre-search summary: “So we stopped this guy for a registration violation. Happened to be the same truck that we went out with last night. The male who we’re out with was arrested on a…possession charge and was released already. He’s out here driving. He said he’s going to Florida…we’re gonna have my beat partner here run her dog around the vehicle. The dog is trained to alert to narcotics, so we’ll see what happens here. He seems irate; seems like we’re targeting him, but it’s just a huge coincidence at this point, so we’ll see what happens.”

Listen to Officer Herman’s incident wrap up after which Abrams quips that “I think he might be heading to a karaoke night with that ‘microphone’ that was in the car.”

  • Las Vegas, Nev. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Matt Farra and colleagues investigate a theft and detain several individuals in an RV. Officer Jacob Bowden recap: “We have three total people in custody here on this. We have the male who ran, the female who stayed with the trailer, and then come to find out, there was an older female who was also inside the trailer. During our investigation, we found out this truck here is also stolen, and inside of this trailer was a lot of expensive stolen camera equipment, which were were able to get back to our victims right over here. The female who is still inside the trailer is on probation for some pretty serious crimes. So she’s probably not gonna be having too good of a day right now, but luckily, we were able to get all of the stolen equipment back, and we’re gonna get these stolen vehicles back to the people that they belong to.”

Abrams: “This reminded us of the story where Captain Rizzo helped me get back all of the video equipment that was stolen from my office in Manhattan because one of the computers had the tracking on it, and were were able to catch the guy with all the equipment as well. Doesn’t happen that often.” Rizzo: “No, but what a great tool, though, right? You give play by play, and then…a specific location to where a stolen piece of equipment may be, or a piece of property. It’s pretty awesome.” Wilson: “Not a lot of guesswork.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Johnson assists on a traffic stop; multiple officers pull a driver out the car. The driver allegedly fled from multiple jurisdictions at approximately 100 mph. Car search.

Listen to Deputy Johnson’s incident summary:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Ethan Holmes and another unit investigate a possible home invasion and take a vocal female into custody. “I’m not doing anything; this is bullsh*t.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Arrested on burglary warrant.” Bleeping.

Listen to Officer Holmes’ summary in which he mentions that the subject is facing an additional charge for allegedly kicking the other officer on scene:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Lieutenant Blanding and Master Deputy Collins Harper are on scene at a large block party. Bleeping. Several females are twerking, and bystanders appear to be “making it rain.” Abrams quips that “just see someone walking around and saying ‘excuse me; got change of a twenty?'”
  • BOLO segment — A Jacksonville, Fla., alleged ferret thief.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — K9 Officer Herman and other units respond to the scene of another K9 officer’s vehicle on fire. Abrams: “Good news is that both the K9 officer and the K9 are okay.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Johnson assists on a shooting call where the victim was shot in the right leg. Paramedics also on scene. The suspect fled; investigation ongoing.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Harper conducts a traffic stop possibly for potentially wrong-way driving or “driving in an odd way.” The driver seems to claim that she dropped some cash in an envelope at a gas station and was turning around to go back. Other units apparently may try to retrieve the money for her. Deputy Harper releases the driver with an admonition to drive safely and “whatever you need to do, just do it lawfully.” Abrams: “Just trying to make sure she drives in a way that is legal.”
  • Missing update (Utah) and new Missing segment (Mesa, Ariz.)
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Detective Ramirez, Sergeants Mike Bryant and Selina Puentes, and other officers respond to a report of screaming or yelling inside an apartment unit. The residents initially won’t come to the door. As cops prepare to breach the door, the couple exits the unit. The male claims that the female was yelling at her son. Abrams: “So he’s suggesting that the ring camera is gonna back up his story.” Abrams update: “It looks like this guy is being arrested. Remember, there was yelling inside the house. He said it was just them disciplining their son, but it looks like police not believing that account.”

Listen to Detective Ramirez’s incident recap:

  • Lee County, Fla. — As the episode ends, Deputy Alexander Chami looks for and detains a woman outside a bar on a warrant. “I am not Melissa.” Deputy Chami: “Yes you are.”
Click on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode #03-86, June 7, 2025 
 [forthcoming]. 

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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.