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 usually with co-anchor Curtis Wilson (a Richland County, S.C., deputy sheriff), along with the often-snarky or playful social media reaction, follows.

Dep. Wilson is taking the weekend off, so Ofr. Ryan Tillman (Chino, Calif., PD) and Cpt. Tom Rizzo (Howell Township, N.J, PD) both return to the show as guest analysts in the studio.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for May 10, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-73)

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofrs. Lindsey Erhart, Brooke Janowiecki, Chris Mulinix, and Mike Gee search the area for for an allegedly intoxicated male supposedly walking around in his underwear. Caption: “Report of a drunk man in underwear.” The make contact with a male who is sitting on the railroad tracks in a meditative pose. “I did nothing wrong…I’m not suicidal…I had a concern that something was happening inside my clothes.”

Ofr. Mulinix summary: “He was sitting on the rail tracks, not responding to us. We were able to get him, after he was done meditating, to have a conversation with us. He states he took his clothes off because there was a snake inside his pants. I believe he has some stuff going on. I don’t know what’s going on right now, but he’s able to answer our questions appropriately, and we’re just gonna release him. We identified who he was. My partner is looking him up to see if he’s got anything. But we’re gonna let him go home and not create any other issues. It didn’t look like the other party was too concerned at this time. But he’s at home, so we’ll let him proceed that way.” Abrams quips that “it seems the report was accurate because the concern was that there were gonna be people wo were gonna see ‘a snake in his pants.’ That was the fear.”

“I had a concern that something was happening inside my clothes.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Zachary Bloom responds to a report of neighbor, who might be drunk, allegedly exposing himself to a woman. Caption: “Report of indecent exposure.” Ofr. Bloom makes contact with the complainant who adds that the subject threatened her. The officer encourages the complainant to apply for a restraining order against the man, which would subject him to arrest upon a violation. Ofr. Bloom: “If you had a restraining order, I’d able to arrest him just for coming — walking down the sidewalk. That’s the best, most powerful thing you can do.” Dan Abrams: “It might be one of those nights.” Abrams; “You can understand.. why the couple is frustrated, right? There’s a guy who they have on tape seemingly threatening, right? But the officer is trying to explain exactly what he can and can’t do at this point.” Ofr. Ryan Tillman: “Correct. And a lot of times they just say, ‘hey, look, go and get a restraining order.’ It really empowers the other person, so that way it takes guesswork out of it for the officers if they come back, and they say, ‘hey, you’re violating a restraining order, got to go.'”

“It might be one of those nights.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Shannon Tolman initiates a traffic stop for an expired tag. The driver has paperwork documenting a title dispute over the vehicle.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Ryan Lineberger responds to a report of a loud house party and makes contact with some cooperative teens who agree to end the festivities. “Everyone here needs to go.” Abrams: “I may be dating myself but…the movie Risky Business, where he says ‘I don’t remember giving permission for a party.'” Dep. Lineberger summary: “We’re out for a call [for] service. It’s an open house party. There’s probably, they’ve got like, I don’t know, 50 or 60 kids crammed in all sorts of corners of this house. And they’re hiding in all different bedrooms because they see that and this and they think everybody’s going to jail. And we’re just trying to keep the neighbors happy and kind of disperse this before it becomes a problem. We don’t need a little party act going on or whatnot.” Abrams: “And I’m sure the parent/homeowners will appreciate that party being thinned out.”
  • Coweta County, Ga. — Dep. Shawn Searels conducts a traffic on the highway for speeding (allegedly at 100 mph in a 70-mph zone). Driver: “My bad.” The driver also indicates he didn’t realize he was going that fast. Dep. Searels cautions him about driving recklessly.
  • Fontana, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by alluding to Elvis and that the incident is “part ‘mystery train,’ part ‘jailhouse rock,’ with an emphasis on rock.” Ofr. Chris Drayer and another unit respond to a report of a man allegedly throwing rocks at security at train tracks. The noncompliant man, who is flashing some sort of flashlight at the cops, winds up getting tased and arrested. “There’s trains on this track; you’re gonna get hit by a train…c’mon dude; what were you thinking?” Ofr. Drayer also tells the man that “this didn’t need to happen this way. It didn’t need to go down like this. It’s your fault, not ours.”

“After the tasing, he maybe ‘all shook up’ a little.”

Ofr. Drayer recap: “As you can see, the train is moving now. And I think it started moving within minutes of us getting him off the track. So he’s gonna go for the resisting arrest and then the misdemeanors that he committed on the train.” Abrams: “I want to talk about the Elvis part in a moment, but let’s talk about the more serious part first. As we were watching this, Officer Tillman, you were making the point that at nighttime this could have been a different outcome.” Tillman: “I think he’s extremely lucky that this happened during the daytime because we have that same flashlight feature even on the lights on our guns, and so for these officers to determine whether or not that’s a flashlight or a gun is much, or is extremely, more difficult at nighttime. So that’s why they said, ‘hey, why are you doing this?” He could have found himself in a really, really bad predicament.” Capt. Tom Rizzo: “And especially even if he falls backwards. You’re dealing with train tracks; you dealing with a train that’s going to be moving shortly. So time’s of the essence there to protect him from himself as well.” Abrams: “We had blurred his face, but just I want to give everyone notice he did not look that much like Elvis…I’ve seen him unblurred, and he didn’t look that much like Elvis…but after the tasing, he maybe ‘all shook up’ a little.” Rizzo: “I think an A for effort.” Tillman: “I thought it was Bruno Mars.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Maycon MacDowel conducts a traffic stop on a pick-up truck for speeding. “Why are you driving like that, man…in in a rush?” Det. MacDowel summary: “We did a traffic stop on this truck. As soon as it hit [local street names] northbound…we could clearly see him speeding off, I don’t know, 40-50 miles an hour. Trying to catch up to him. Then he went eastbound. Then he went over here. He’s over the yellow…he said he was [in] a rush; he wasn’t speeding or anything. But we’re gonna run his name and see what’s going on. Make sure his license is valid.” Det. MacDowel adds that “So the gentleman over here came out here to buy weed. But for him, unfortunately, they didn’t have weed, but they always got crack and fentanyl down here. But he doesn’t like that. He wants some weed.”

“He’s trying to buy weed. He said he ain’t go not weed. And I guarantee he offered something else.”

Det. MacDowel further explains that “…you can see foil or you can see empty baggies. Unfortunately over here, we try to address it every day, but it’s an open market to be selling dope over here…every time we do a jump out, nine out of ten times we get narcotics, we get weapons, and you arrest one, two, three people. Then another two, three, come out, take over the area, start selling dope again. It’s non stop…the older male meeting up with the tall…male over here. They exchanged a few words; then they went separate ways. He’s trying to buy weed. He said he ain’t go not weed. And I guarantee he offered something else.”

  • Coweta County, Ga. — Dep. Searels conducts a traffic stop on a pick-up truck pulling a trailer. Two occupants. One of the trailer’s running lights is out. Gun allegedly spotted in car. One or both of the males allegedly has weed in their underwear. Caption: “Nuggets of marijuana found.” Dep. Searels warns one of the men that “do not pull away from me, okay? My dog will bite you, and I will tase the hell out of you.” After an investigation at the scene, both males are subsequently arrested. Abrams observes about tonight’s episode in general that there are “a number of issues with people with items in their pants.”

Dep. Searels synopsis: “This is what the driver had in his pants…it says it’s Fruity Pebbles, California sales. THC is 32.24 percent Anything over 0.3 percent is illegal. So that’s the driver’s. Our passenger’s got three packs that was in his underwear. He’s got some Fruity Pebbles, a little bit of marijuana, Sunset Breeze. It’s 33.04 percent THC. And this one’s not even been opened yet.” Abrams: “I’m presuming this is not the Fred Flintstone and Barney Fruity Pebbles that many of us grew up on.”

Tonight there are “a number of issues with people with items in their pants.”

  • Triple Play #1 — North Little Rock, Ark. A pursuit on the highway, “where sparks were flying, literally” (per Abrams) that also prompted two PIT maneuvers. Cpt. Rizzo: “I just can’t get over the driving on both the police side of the house and then the suspect’s side of the house, and then a PIT that nearly launches over the media.” Ofr. Tillman: “It was a very realistic thing that that truck could have went over the center median, caused a much bigger collision, so I’m glad it ended safely.” Cpt. Rizzo: “But you say to yourself, what would make you keep running after that many…so I get intoxication and stuff like that, and illegal substances, not worth taking that chance, man.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Det. Christian Castano and another unit conduct a traffic stop on a van for speeding (allegedly 60 in a 45-mph zone). Two occupants plus a barking dog. The male occupant allegedly has toilet paper in his waist. Castano: “You have abnormal items stuck in your waistband.” K9 alert and car search. The couple is subsequently released with a written warning for speeding. Abrams: “They did not find any drugs in that car, so she gets a warning for the speeding, and they’re gonna be on their way.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers investigate at the scene of a purported burglary in progress at a residence.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Eddie Lee and other units respond to a car crash. A groggy driver who says he “loves” Ofr. Lee (and Lee reciprocates the sentiment) is detained. Paramedics summoned. The subject briefly attempted to run as his pants began falling down. Ofr. Lee: “…He claims to love me…which is nice. I’d rather deal with that than him screaming, cursing me up and down…during the inventory of the vehicle, I located a small amount of a white substance. Through field testing with our cocaine ID wipes, it came back with a presumptive reaction for the presence of cocaine. After telling everybody that he loved them, being super nice, he tried to run. He had to be taken to the ground. So he’s going to jail for resisting arrest and possession of cocaine.” Abrams: “I guess this might be tough ‘love,’ but this has been quite a night of snakes and other items involving pubic exposure…” Cpt. Rizzo: “The unpredictability of it, right? You go from passed out to a crash to ‘I love you to death, I love you back,’ to then a sobriety test, to maybe a foot pursuit…”

“…this has been quite a night of snakes and other items involving pubic exposure.”

  • Toledo, Oho — Officers rush to a scene of a fight in progress. One man is detained at the scene. Paramedics summoned. Ofr. Gee summary: “Right now, it looks like it’s a possible domestic violence situation…it sounds like he’s beating up on her, so we’re gonna get her side of the story…and then go from there.” Abrams: “So we got to be really clear here. We do not know what happened here. There’s a lot of people making allegations, pointing fingers…in what appear to be some real injuries. So they’re gonna have to try to investigate this, figure out what happened.”

Ofr. Gee clarification: “So talking with crews, the victim said he doesn’t want to press charges. So there’s gonna be a report for the assault. If he changes his mind, he can call at a later time to press charges against the female who openly admitted she gave him a good beating. She does have some warrants, misdemeanors, and a felony warrant, so she will go to jail on the warrants. But as for the assault, she’s gonna be let go on that tonight because he won’t be a victim.” Abrams: “This is why the police, when they arrive at a scene, need to figure out exactly what has happened before you draw any conclusion. It takes a little time sometimes to sort things out.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Sgt. Paul Yacobozzi and other units respond to a report of an assault at a residence and make contact with an older male. Sgt. Yacobozzi recap: “So, he’s upset. I understand why he’d be upset. However, he’s taking it out on us. We’re here to help. I’m trying to get him to sit down so he doesn’t upset himself. Maybe he’s got high blood pressure or something like that, but he isn’t bleeding. We have an ambulance coming to check him out. But right now, he is just — he’s all over the place. He wants us to go find his son. So what we’re gonna do is we’ll get him to write a statement, what happened, and we’ll go from there, and he can follow up with the detectives at a later date. But he’s just irate. I believe alcohol and/or drugs, or both, might be involved. ‘Hard to believe.’ So I’m gonna try to talk to him, calm him down. If he doesn’t want to calm down, we’ll just take a quick statement. Do get an incident number, and we’ll do a report, and he can follow up later with it.”

“I believe alcohol and/or drugs, or both, might be involved.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Cops are dispatched to all about “someone causing havoc in a neighborhood with a dirt bike,” according to Abrams. Ofr. Bloom makes contact with a male on a bike. Warning given.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sgt. Kenny Fitzsimmons responds to a burglar alarm at a closed store. The store looks secure, however.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Tolman assists other deputies at the scene of a disturbance at a gas station. An argumentative man, who spews the B word amidst a lot of bleeping and spits at the corporal, is detained, with a spit mask placed over his head. Caption: “Responding to combative suspect.”

Cpl. Tolman summary: “So we came out here to respond to a suspicious person call. The jurisdiction is actually gonna be Columbia Police Department, but they’re all backed up, so we’re trying to help them out by taking the call. Security out here has asked him to leave multiple times. Once we got on scene, he got extremely verbally abusive and combative with deputies. So once we went to put hands on, he got combative, started kicking at deputies. Once they were searching him, he spit at me. He’s still kicking and yelling at them, so now he’d be going to jail tonight.”

Cpt. Rizzo about the spitting incident: “So state to state, there’s plans in place for what we call BBP, or blood-borne pathogen, exposure for saliva, any type of — for the transmission of communicable diseases. So they’ll make sure, even if it has to go through to court, to order the testing on the part of the suspect to make sure the officer wasn’t unnecessarily exposed. But it just breaks my heart to see that; it really bothers me when I see that type of behavior. It’s one thing if you want to be resisting; it’s what we train to deal with. But that type of thing, it’s just — it gets me a little hot under the collar…” Ofr. Tillman: “It’s an additional charge, too, so the moment he spits, that’s an aggravated assault. So he just added additional charges on to him, which would have probably been — he’d just be going to jail for disorderly conduct.”

  • Triple Play #2 — The North Braddock, Pa., attempted church service shooting that received national publicity. The segment also includes Abrams interviewing the forgiving pastor and the deacon.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers respond to a scene where a woman was hit by a car in a residential neighborhood and is on the ground. Paramedics summoned. Cops detain three women at the scene who are, however, subsequently released. Ofr. Mulinix apparently called the victim’s missing phone to see if it would ring in a suspect vehicle, but the phone was turned off. Ofr. Mulinix summary: “So that one’s getting released. She doesn’t know anything about the incident. I detained her because somebody on the street said that she was involved in running the girl over. So I detained her until our detectives got here and did more further investigation. She didn’t have anything involved, but we have her name and information. If it comes back around that she was involved, we can just issue warrants on her.” Abrams: “All right, so they’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened and who is responsible there.” Abrams update: “Remember, this is where the woman got hit by the car, and there was a silver Kia that they thought may have been involved. Well, the two women in the Kia were released with no charges there.” Investigation ongoing.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Responding to call about an alleged suspicious vehicle, Lt. Richie Maher makes contact with a man in a pickup truck “at a pretty weird intersection, or as Abrams put it, “parked in a somewhat unusual spot, and from there, things got even more bizarre.” The driver tells Maher that “I’m just taking a nap.” When Lt. Maher asks, “do you know where you’re at,” the driver replies “not really.” In the course of a DUI investigation, the driver allegedly refuses field sobriety testing, and is arrested. In a vehicle search, cops find a large number of knives, which prompts Maher to make a callback, with the Australian accent, to the Crocodile Dundee movie (” that’s a knife”).

Lt. Maher summary: “…There’s a ton of empties back there. Been slamming them brewskis…Interesting, interesting dude. He refused to do some standard field sobriety exercises. He’s going to jail. Doesn’t have a good license. Shouldn’t be driving intoxicated. He doesn’t know where he is. He doesn’t even know what city he’s in. Did an inventory of the vehicle. Found a ton of beer cans, blades, a spear, knives. He just really likes his edge weapons and his booze, but he’s going to jail. We’re going to be towing this F-150 out of here, and we’re gonna get out of here in a second.” Abrams: “With that, you’ve got to wonder if the guy was auditioning for a horror move.” Cpt. Rizzo: “Yeah, really, like the zombie apocalypse. We did a search warrant. It was the same thing like that, under the bed, under the mattress, just prepared for the apocalypse with edge weapons, and that’s something that’s always scary when it comes with police officers, because you’re in close proximity. They pull one of those things out. I don’t know what you’re using the spear for there.” Ofr. Tillman: “We just neve know what’s in the vehicle either.”

“He just really likes his edge weapons and his booze, but he’s going to jail.”

  • Fontana, Calif. — Ofr. Bloom and other units make contact with a complainant and other family members in connection with an alleged knife threat by a brother in law. They don’t want to press charges but seem to imply that a medical evaluation would be appropriate. Cops subsequently make contact and detain the subject.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Sgt. Yacobozzi and other deputies search extensively for two subjects who bailed on foot from a vehicle after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop and then crashing into a tree. K9 Kai with Cpl. BJ Nelson deployed in the search. According to Cpl. Devante Smith, narcotics were found in the abandoned vehicle. Cpt. Rizzo on the strategy at the search scene: “Definitely a stationary perimeter and then rove cars. Hopefully, if they have K9, if they have something from air support to shine down on. But they’re gonna want a perimeter obviously so that it doesn’t get expanded for an area to search.” As far as the K9 strategy is concerned, Rizzo adds that “So the car’s on scene, so what they’ll do is they’ll have the dog establish a scent and an odor from that car to then go ahead and track. And what you’ll notice is there’ll be another officer that’ll go along with the K9 officer to provide the backup so the K9 officer can focus their attention and their detail on where the dog is taking them.” About the length of the leash, Ofr. Tillman explains that “You’ll notice that it’s a lot longer than a traditional leash…which is specifically used for searching for people anytime they’re missing or escaping or something like that.” Tillman also mentions that “I’ve always found it interesting every time I train with the K9s, they always track side to side, like in a zigzag. It’s almost like a grid. So it’s very fascinating to see it when they’re actually looking for somebody.” The subjects are still at large.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Carlos Queliz makes contact with a pedestrian who was allegedly assaulted. The victim describes the assailant as “just my homeboy,” and does not want to press charges.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Cops respond to a report of a fight on a street in a residential neighborhood. It apparently involves a family dispute. In a friendly manner, Ofr. Mulinix helps to de-escalate the situation, which already seemed to have calmed down, and makes sure that they “got done with physical part.” The parties say “we’re good” and agree to separate for the night. One apologetic man who was apparently a peacemaker at the scene tells Ofr. Mulinix that “I guess maybe we all had a little bit too much to drink. Maybe more than others…” Another man wonders if this is YouTube.

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