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

An On Patrol: Live recap, including NYC studio host Dan Abrams’ puns, analysis, and banter with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

Former Tulsa, Okla., cop Sean “Sticks” Larkin, the original member of the trio, returns to the NYC studio as this weekend’s guest analyst.

For background information about On Patrol: Live (i.e., Live PD 2.0), click here.

Lineup change: Fullerton PD is out; Fontana PD is in.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for March 8, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-57)

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and other units make contact with a subject on a report of someone trying to break into a post office building. “You’re going to jail — not detained.” The subject denies the allegation and is apparently hungry. Taylor: “There’s no food in the post office.” The subject is not arrested after all, and Chief Taylor tells the young man where he can get some food without cost (which is actually the chief’s dinner).
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Cpl. Dwayne Hoilett (a former Univ. of Miami football player) conducts a traffic stop on a pick-up truck in connection with an expired tag. The motorist, who has a permit, is carrying a small derringer. Abrams quips that “cops with some big ‘guns’ out with a guy with a little gun.” The driver is released with a written warning for the registration issue.
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) — Ofrs. Mike Gee and Chris Mulinix encounter a man allegedly or possibly taking a leak on a building and detain him after he tries to run. Officer on scene: “That was dumb.” Ofr. Mulinix: “So we observed the guy. Looked like he was urinating on the side of a carryout, so we stopped him. He ended up fleeing on foot. We caught him a short distance later. After searching him, we found a bag of a white powder substance that we’re gonna send up to our vice unit and see what it is. And then he’ll go to jail. It looks like he’s got a bench warrant…it’s not good to run, especially if you’re not that fast.” Abrams: “Well said. That’s exactly what I was thinking as we we’re watching this…” Dep. Wilson: “That was like the longest, slowest run. Camera guy was walking.” Larkin: “I don’t want to say foot chases are fun. They’re obviously very dangerous when you’re chasing a suspect. But there are times when you’re chasing somebody that you’re literally laughing, and you are talking to the guy, like ‘are you for real?’…you’re just gonna go to jail tired.” Abrams: “The good news is he wouldn’t have to necessarily go the bathroom because he’d just dealt with that.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops detain and arrest an individual who is subject to a warrant.
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Cpl. Chris Teare responds to a call involving neighbor with a firearm but the story seems to change.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Kevin Karsnick and other units respond to a vandalism report; a front door window of a business is smashed.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Richie Maher patrols the downtown area during Bike Week. He spots one motorcyclist who tipped over. Caption: “Feeling tipsy?” Maher: “The guy fell off his bike, but he’s fine.” Abrams notes that Bike Week actually lasts about 10 days
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Bryson Fowler attempted to pull over a vehicle that wound up being abandoned in the driveway of a mobile home park. He subsequently returned to the area and spotted two subjects who allegedly fled the car. Foot search. During his investigation, Cpl. Fowler makes contact with the homeowner; the car does not belong to the homeowner. The car is towed. Abrams: “And she didn’t win it on the game show, so no one’s just given her a car. So now the question becomes…” Wilson: “Who does it belong to and what is it doing? And why do those guys run?” Cpl. Fowler notes that criminal charges may be unlikely in this instance because “I can’t prove whoever comes to pick up the vehicle was driving that vehicle at that time.” The corporal later returns to the area upon a tip that the suspect or suspects are back in the area in another car.

Abrams: “I know this isn’t the most important point that he was making there, but as I was watching the tow truck, I’m thinking that’s a reminder why you don’t want to get your car towed. Tires are gonna be ruined, et cetera…” Larkin: “It’s a front-wheel-drive car, and so they pulled it, lifted the rear up to get it out of the driveway. He’s gonna move the truck around out in front, lift it up, and the back wheels will just roll normally.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Cpl. Daniel Lambert and other units respond to a domestic-related dispute at a residence involving a wife and an ex-wife. Cpl. Lambert: “Sounds like a lovers’ quarrel thing…there was some shoving, but neither one wants to prosecute in that matter. So the other party is gonna request a trespass, and we’ll be on our way.” The homeowner ultimately gets arrested, however, over an unwillingness to quiet down and go indoors. Lambert: “As we’re trying to clear it up, As you can see, she was asked numerous times to go inside. She decided to to sit on the front porch and scream and shout profanities at deputies and the other party. She was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct.”

Abrams partially satirically to Larkin: “As someone who’s had women fighting over you, how does one resolve these sorts of disputes?” Larkin: “I have you two fighting over me…on a serious note, this is the perfect example of somebody talking themselves into jail. That’s it. You get so many opportunities to do the right thing, go inside, and just talk yourself into going to jail.” Wilson: “Being loud and obnoxious when all she had to do was go inside…” Abrams: “I don’t even understand why the other woman was even there in the first place, but the end, that didn’t even matter.”

  • Triple Play #1 — Bethany, Okla.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Traffic stop on a pick-up truck for allegedly weaving in and out of lanes owing to Bike Week congestion. Driver: “I’m an a**hole.” Lt. Maher intends to just issue a warning as long as the motorist’s license is valid
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cp. TJ Norton conducts a traffic stop on a car with an unreadable tag and also that apparently has red halo lights “that she can’t see what’s going on in front of her.” Motorist: “I just bought the car.” Cpl. Norton: “She had a bling-bling going on on the rims.” He intends to just issue a warning as long as the motorist’s license is valid. Caption: ” Who owns deez?” Abrams: “Can’t seem to get away from ‘deez nuts’ these days. You never know where it’s gonna sort of pop up, so to speak, but…it’s everywhere.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — Traffic stop apparently for speeding; two dogs in the back seat. Likely only a warning.
  • Toledo, Ohio (pre-recorded segment) –– Multiple offices pursue a car that fled from a traffic stop. Stop sticks deployed. Traffic stop at gunpoint. Driver: “I’m scared…I just did seven years.” Ofr. Gee: “The reason he said he ran was because he’s on parole. He had some weed on him…he didn’t want to go back, but he’s probably gonna go back to prison if he’s on parole for this…”

Abrams: “It turns out he might have actually eaten some of those drugs because he overdosed on the way to jail and was given two doses of Narcan. So when officers ask people sometimes, ‘hey, I want to make sure you didn’t eat any drugs,’ it’s not just to implicate them. It’s sometimes to save their lives.” Larkin: “It’s a safety issue. That’s it. We’re not necessarily trying to charge them for something. It’s like, ‘hey, man, there’s an empty baggie here. It looks like you’ve bitten it off.’ We need to know, is it weed, which is probably not going to harm you. Is it powder cocaine, which could potentially kill you, elevate your heart rate, something like that, because we need to know if we need to give them medical attention. Or if something happens on the way to jail, we need to know what to do from there.” Wilson [on the stop sticks deployment]: “It was a great coordinated effort with law enforcement to get those sticks out there to cover all three lanes to end that pursuit, because other than that, it could have kept going. That was a good move.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Traffic stop for speeding.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Cpl. Hoilett and other units, along with paramedics, respond to a disturbance in a residential area. Caption” Intake of psilocybin.” Cpl. Hoilett: “So basically, we got on scene, and we found the male….he took too many mushrooms so had a little bit of a bad trip off of it. I don’t know how long he ingested or how long ago he ingested, how many he ingested, what kind of mushrooms — I don’t know anything about that. But he admitted taking them….he was super nice the whole time, but just kept saying ‘am I dead,’ ‘I’m having a bad trip.’ So EMS got on scene, gave him some help. Maybe they can help him sober up a little bit and see what happens. But no crime being committed…”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher and other first responders assist at the scene of a traffic accident allegedly involving two motorcycles and a vehicle.

Lt. Maher summary: “He was riding this motorcycle. This car ran right into the back of him. Wasn’t wearing a helmet, went down. He’s go some pretty decent head trauma. Thank God for the guy that was holding the c-spine on him because he’s a combat medic. And he instantly jumped in, held him still, kept him alert and oriented. Hopefully he comes out of this just fine, but he’s bleeding pretty good. Got him IDed; I’m gonna get the ID to my officers for the crash report. And then get it to medics, so they know how to get him the proper treatment that might be associated with his name. Unfortunately, this happens during bike week. There’s a lot of motorcycles and a lot of drivers out here. You’ve really got to watch your driving when you’ve got all these motorcycles out here.”

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Dep. Dave Foley and other units initiate a traffic stop; suspended license and no insurance. Abrams: “It was a ‘joint effort’ they probably won’t soon forget.” The motorist allegedly said she smoked weed at home. Field sobriety testing leads to a DUI arrest. The motorist allegedly refers to having a “gar,” which is apparently means a joint, and concealed in a “private locker” scenario. Dep. Foley: “So she’s going to be transported up to the Lee County Jail where we’ll do a breathalyzer test and the urine test and possibly a drug-influence evaluation. She’ll be booked into the Lee County jail on the DUI charge. The vehicle is gonna be towed, and she’ll have possibly some additional charges for the marijuana and the pill that was found in her vehicle as well.”

Abrams: “So that was sort of the worst-case scenario in terms of the way that she had that joint hidden, sort of every bad fact possible. That’s it; we’ll just leave it at that…and just say that from the police perspective, which is what we like to look at, every bad fact.” Larkin: “Those are the ones where you let the suspect retrieve the contraband and put it in the bag themselves.” Wilson: “And the ‘gar,’ by the way, in case people want to know, it’s like paper, like cigar paper, Swisher, that type of thing.”

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Traffic stop. K9 alert. Probable cause car search.
  • Toledo, Oho — Ofrs. Heather Smith and Austin Bly respond to an accident where a train hit a car. Ofr. Smith: “The occupants of the vehicle were able to get out in time, but their vehicle was hit and dragged down the train tracks…it sounds like… the train was coming, the gates were going down, and this gentleman tried to beat the train. I don’t know if he got stuck on the tracks, but he was able to get out of the vehicle before the train hit his car, which is the good part of it. He’s not hurt or injured or anything. They’re gonna end up doing an accident report for him. They’re gonna run him and make sure that he’s valid, figure out more why he chose to make the decisions he did tonight.” Abrams to his panelists: “As we were watching that, both of you were talking to me about examples of how you’ve seen this happen before, and there’ve been all sorts of horrible results. Fortunately, that didn’t happen here…lucky couple that were in that vehicle.”

Ofr. Smith update: “He wasn’t at one of the two intersections that have train track lights on it with the gate that comes down. He was coming off a different side road that is a dead-end road. You’re not supposed to be traveling over the tracks here and, according to him, that’s what everyone does in the neighborhood over here, but’s it’s extremely dangerous for him to be doing that, for anyone to be doing that. That’s why we have signals to prevent accidents like that. He could have died tonight.”

  • Triple Play #2 — Centerville, Utah
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Gee and Mulinix make contact with a woman in connection with some kind of disturbance outside of a Walmart. Ofr Gee: “This lady was here at Walmart earlier today. She said she was in line. She was trying to do the self scan. It wasn’t working to scan cat food. She’s letting the cashier know that. She picked up the food anyways. The lady behind her called her a name, and then she came out to the parking to put her food away. She’s alleging the same female was driving her car, swerved towards here, and then stopped and flipped her off. So their LP is gonna do a look at the footage tomorrow and try to get footage of that incident. And then she’s gonna come back tomorrow and pick it up or call us back out and pick it up. And then we’re gonna file a report for her tonight. And then she can follow up with our prosecutors if she can. The main thing is find out out who that female is. She did have a plate, so we’re gonna to put it in there. If it fits the description of the female she said it is, then we’ll probably put it in there. But the main thing is to try to figure out who the person is, and that’s how she’ll deal with pressing charges.”

Abrams: “That’s a ‘catfight’ if I’ve ever seen one.” Larkin explains that an LP is “a loss-prevention officer. Unfortunately, a lot of shoplifting going on in this country, especially at Walmart. So they have a lot of hired security there that works full time doing loss prevention.” Abrams: Yep; so they are gonna look at the surveillance footage.”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor make a friendly traffic stop that includes a discussion with the driver about cookies.
  • Indian River County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Det. Christian Castano and other units, along with the Fire Department and paramedics, respond to a car in a ditch. Det. Castano: “Speaking to some witnesses, we find out that ultimately, the driver was driving too fast, didn’t have enough time to stop at the stop sign, and ended up in the ditch. Deputy Ruiz was the first deputy on scene — was able to get the five year old out of the car. And while speaking to the driver, could smell an overwhelming odor of alcohol coming off her breath. Deputy Ruiz is gonna follow up with a DUI investigation on the driver. So, thankfully, the five year old is okay; mom appears to be okay, and they’re on their way to the hospital.”

Abrams: “The driver’s blood alcohol content was .214; way up there. Deputies were able to pull information from the car’s data recorder, which showed that the vehicle was going 96 in a 45 just prior to the accident. Neither the driver nor child were wearing seatbelts, and both sustained serious injuries. The driver has been charged with DUI with serious bodily injury to another.”

  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor conduct a traffic stop on a pick-up truck who is driving on a rim where the left rear tire should have been. Using the flashers on his patrol car, the chief is going to escort the driver’s vehicle off the highway safely so that someone can come and pick him up. Abrams deadpans that “when the rubber comes off, it can lead to lots of long-term issues for the car…”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Devante Smith conducts a traffic stop; a K9 officer at the scene has the canine sniff around the car. Cpl. Fowler: “K9 Brut did alert to an odor of narcotics coming from this side of the vehicle. {The deputy] stated that he only alerts to cocaine, methamphetamines, and heroin. So we’re gonna search the car and then we’ll go from there.” The driver is Mirandized. The driver allegedly admits to having a needle in the vehicle. A syringe is allegedly found; the substance in it to be tested.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Amidst a rain storm, cops make contact with a woman who just got off work was unable to catch a bus to take her to her destination. She implies that walking is possibly an issue because she is scared of “1,000 worms.” Officer on scene: “We do see a few [worms] out here tonight.” The officers standby on scene until her ride home arrives.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers race to the scene and detain a subject outside a residence in connection with a call about an alleged knife-wielding individual fighting with another person.
  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Joe Richard and colleagues investigate a stabbing incident at a train station. Ofr. Richard: “Our victim had multiple stab wounds, and he was transported to our local hospital. Looks like he is gonna pull through. We do have two suspects at large right now. We were able to identify who they were, also what vehicle they were in, and when the incident happened. So, we’re gonna see if we can find them, and then from there on, that’s basically where we’re at right now. So we finally IDed these people, and we’re hoping to catch them.”
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor and colleagues, along with state troopers, conduct a traffic stop and search a car and a trailer after a K9 alert. Chief Taylor claims that the trailer contains illegal gaming machines. A bag of money also allegedly spotted. The driver is ultimately released, however, with no charges.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Multiple officers pursue a subject wanted on a felony charges. K9 deployed. Lt. Maher and other officers use a bolt cutters to remove a chain on a fence and set up a perimeter.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputies respond to some sort of disturbance and spot three males exiting a car.

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