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

A recap of the May 17, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 03-80), anchored in the NYC studio by attorney and host/executive producer Dan Abrams along with studio panelists/analysts Captain Tom Rizzo, and the Oklahoma duo, Sean “Sticks” Larkin, and Sheriff Tommie Johnson, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, a post-pursuit arrest in Daytona Beach and separately, a pre-teen shot in that same city, a “disorderly conduct” arrest in Richland County that divided #OPNation, and perhaps a potential love triangle — or rectangle — in Berkeley County all prompted the most social media reaction. See below for details on the 26 law enforcement incidents (with some overlap) in eight On Patrol: Live departments during this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

Note: Co-host Curtis Wilson has the weekend off.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for May 17, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-80)

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  • Lee County (just before air) — Deputy Layne Reeves searches for a shoplifting suspect and arrives on scene where other cops have detained a suspect. “What is this about?” The suspect denies stealing a bunch of meat from Walmart. On Patrol: Live caption: “Sirloin purloin.” Police allegedly find a baggie and a pipe on the suspect’s person.
  • Monroe, La. — Corporal Kelsie Wilson and Officer Serenity Smith make contact with a pedestrian at a gas station. The latter, who seems to have difficulty reciting the alphabet, pours out a beer can and goes on his way. On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “All right, it was a trick question.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporals Andy Gonzalez, Mikayla Ortiz, and Devonte Carr on a traffic stop. K9 Odin alerts on the door; probable cause car search. When asked if there is any contraband in the vehicle, the driver appears to say “I don’t believe so.” Drugs allegedly found.
  • Monroe, La. — Corporal Wilson and Officer Smith make a traffic stop perhaps at the same gas station for a potential window tint violation. The driver is argumentative and is cuffed. Cops issue traffic citations to the motorist and release him.
  • Monroe, La. — While at the above traffic stop, cops spot a possible disturbance across the street. Officer Smith: “Y’all around here cussin’ and fussin.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Along with many other cops including those in the Violent Crime Apprehension Team (VCAT), Officer Gabriel Marquez pursues a fleeing vehicle that allegedly intentionally struck Detective Noah Galbreath’s car. The occupants foot bail after the vehicle appeared to hit a fence. A K9 subdues one of the subjects, who seems belligerent. Heavy bleeping. Lieutenant Richie Maher to the subject: “Zero accountability with you.” Officers provide several updates on the incident. Paramedics arrive to treat the subject. Abrams: “She sounds like she has a lot of complaints, but is does sound as, as Sheriff Johnson was just saying, that the officers kind of boxed her in, and then you were saying…” Sheriff Johnson: “It appers that she rammed all the cars to try to get out and get away.

“Zero accountability with you.”

On Patrol: Live guest studio analyst Sean Larkin: “Every agency has a different pursuit policy. Daytona Beach, theirs is very strict actually — but as soon as you heard over the radio, they said the suspect rammed his vehicle intentionally into another officer’s car, I promise you, the supervisor came on the radio: ‘We have an assault with a deadly weapon,’ a dangerous weapon against police. They authorized the pursuit…”

“Don’t be mad because you got caught.”

Abrams: “She sounds like she has a lot of complaints, but is does sound as, as Sheriff Johnson was just saying, that the officers kind of boxed her in, and then you were saying…” Sheriff Johnson: “It appears that she rammed all the cars to try to get out and get away. And then you hear the complaints. You put yourself in this situation, so don’t be upset with the treatment that you’re receiving.”

Listen to some of the cops’ interaction with the suspect:

“You put yourself in this situation, so don’t be upset with the treatment that you’re receiving.”

Officer Jonathan Muniz recap: “The VCAT units had a suspect that they found had had a warrant registered to the vehicle over there. As soon as they went to pull over the vehicle…the vehicle actually attempted to flee from them. The vehicle actually backed into one of our officers, rammed another officer, fled the scene. Got to a point where they couldn’t drive the vehicle anymore. At that point, she bailed out of the vehicle, started running through some backyards. Luckily, officers followed her very closely with…K9 partner, And at some point, she was apprehended by our K9, given some justice there at that point. And now she is gonna be transported over to the jail right now.”

K9 Officer Roger Lawson provides additional background on the incident: “This car here, we ran the tag on it…It came back to a female that was known to have active felony warrants. She’s in the vehicle at which point we attempted a traffic stop. She started reversing and going forward several times, trying to get away, at which point we ended up just putting positive pressure on the back of the car from the other car. She ended up throwing it in reverse, while we were trying to breach the windows to extract her from the vehicle. At that time, throwing it in reverse, mashed on the gas, pushed…Detective Smith’s Explorer out of the way, and then cranked the wheel and ended up hitting Detective Galbreath’s vehicle.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Mondre Rambo makes a friendly traffic stop on a wrong-way, out-of-state driver in a truck. After a license check, the driver is released with a warning.

Listen to Deputy Rambo summarize the brief stop:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Kirsten Yule-Zaagman makes friendly contact with a man at a gas station with a homemade motor bike. “That’s pretty impressive; good for you, buddy.” She advises him, however, that the bike needs to be registered, and this point “it’s not really road legal.” Abrams: “You got to give the motorcycle MacGyver a little credit though for putting that whole thing together.”

Officer Yule-Zaagman recap: “I observed him riding this vehicle on the road, and it’s not exactly road legal. It’s a toy, and I sent him on his way. He’s all good.” To the driver, she says “keep it off the road, though right? Okay perfect…straight home. Love it.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Mike Knapp investigates an assault and gathers information from several women and one man on scene. As the deputy tries to figure out what transpired in the convoluted situation, it appears that no one wants to press charges.

Deputy Knapp’s initial assessment: “There’s obviously multiple different stores about what’s happening. They are all clearly and highly intoxicated coming from the beach. The females here say that the driver hit her; the male over there saying that they started hitting the female, and the female never hit her back. However, they’re bloody; at least the younger one of the two is bloody, and I have no idea what the driver who’s talking to Deputy Lee at the front of this complex is saying. So we’re gonna have to just kind of sort it out and get to the bottom of whatever is going on.” Deputy Knapp subsequently adds that “right now…everybody’s wanting to do complaint withdrawals so nobody wants to press charges with anybody. We’re trying to get everybody rides home and out of here because nobody wants to do anything, and all they’re all obviously highly intoxicated. And so that’s where we’re at right now…”

Abrams: “So if everyone says they don’t want to press charges, this is probably not gonna end up being a crime, but what a weird thing this was…” Deputy Knapp wrap up: “So nobody wants to press charges for anything, so everybody’s leaving, and we’re gonna be clearing here. Their car’s not movable, so it doesn’t really matter about them driving intoxicated. In Florida, we would have to witness it, as law enforcement, them driving. Even with her admission, it doesn’t mean anything. We would actually have to physically witness it unless there’s a crash. So everybody’s gonna get out of here, and we’ll be on to the next one.”

  • Triple Play #3 — A Clayton County, Ga., police chase. Abrams previews the segment by asserting that a driver “leads deputies on a high-speed pursuit, and from there, things quickly went ‘downhill.'”
  • Monroe, La. — Corporal Wilson, Officer Smith, and members of the High Enforcement Apprehension Team (HEAT) conduct a traffic stop with some humorous back and forth with the occupants. Officer Smith to one of the subjects: “Are you twerking?”

Abrams: “I was trying to figure out are those the kinds of socks that they give away from 7-Eleven because just to promote the brand? I even said to you guys, I was like, I’ve never seen those for sale in a 7-Eleven, so I think you got to kind of have like an in…” Sheriff Johnson: “And I have to get me a grill…” Abrams: “The braces are kind of a grill…”

  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Russell Booze makes contact with an argumentative man in a wheelchair outside a convenience store who apparently won’t ID himself. “I don’t need ID.” Officer Booze: “If you don’t identify yourself, you’re gonna go to jail. Simple as that. I’m trying to make it simple for you, but you’re making it difficult.” Officer Booze explains that “the male’s been trespassed plenty of times from this place, so we’ll handle this… If he answers these questions, then he’ll go down to the hospital. If not, then he’s gonna be a constant issue, so we’ll probably have to take him to jail.”

Abrams: “…let’s just bring it back to the policing and say this is the kind of thing that police officers have to deal with.” Larkin: “Every night.”

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the footing by explaining that “deputies encountered a guy on a dirt bike who appeared to be a man of mystery.” Deputy Ryan Dyal investigates a possible squatter incident and makes contact with a man on a motor bike, which may not be road legal, who stops and enters an RV. No ID. The man is detained and seems to admit to having a warrant.

Listen to Deputy Dyal wrap up the incident:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Marquez responds to a gym alarm at the same location as depicted on Friday night’s On Patrol: Live broadcast. “Lieutenant Richie Maher responded to this alarm last night. It’s a community gym, so what’s going on is a resident was trying to go inside the gym with the key card and was not given access, and the security system believed that this subject was breaking in. But that wasn’t it, so we’re gonna go and make contact with this subject, make sure he resides there, and hopefully we get with the alarm company to make sure they’re able to listen to these subjects talking on the other side of the building.” Abrams: “..the same place that we saw Lieutenant Richie Maher go to yesterday where they reported a break in, and it was a dude working out.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Danny Brown disperses a large group of juveniles in a parking lot who are violating a curfew. On his police car’s PA system, he announces “…I will hold all of you in handcuffs until your parents get here…there is no loitering, no hanging out — y’all need to go home.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Marquez is re-dispatched from the above call to a shooting incident in which a 12-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet in a residential area. Paramedics also dispatched there along with multiple officers including Lieutenant Maher. Cops search the area for a suspect.

Abrams: “..we’re sitting here listening to the radio traffic as well trying to assess exactly what happened. Larkin: “It sounds like a group of young men or some sort of a disturbance. Obviously, somebody pulls out a firearm, and this is your worst-case scenario when somebody in our youth, whether he’s a young teenager, just an older young kid, is hit. Luckily, it sounds lie he’s grazed only.” Sheriff Johnson: “And when we talk about this, we can talk about the most innocent among us, but yet the most violent among us, when we talk about our juveniles. And I think this was so sad to see here.”

Officer Marquez initial: “Apparently there was a fight with several young individuals. During that physical altercation, a subject brandished a firearm; they started shooting. The victim got shot in the back, Right now, we got evac on scene; they’re gonna help him out. We’re gonna have one of our units in the area, see if we can locate the subject and apprehend him. Right now, they say it happened in front of this school over here. Approximately just one shot. We’re gonna see if we could find a shell casing or whatever, but so far, just one victim, and they’re already being treated by medical staff.” Abrams: “..enormously lucky that it was just a grazing…”

Listen to updates from Officer Marquez and Lieutenant Maher:

“..enormously lucky that it was just a grazing…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Knapp conducts a traffic stop on a vehicle that allegedly fled from another LEO. The motorist, who may not speak English, is apparently a DoorDash driver. The deputy concerned appears to ID the driver as the subject. Deputy Knapp: “So right now, [the other deputy] tried to conduct a traffic stop on this vehicle. The vehicle had fled from her traffic stop and then tried to cut through the parking lot and ended up parking here darked out. We saw the car; we hopped out with it and detained the driver. So we’re gonna do a little more investigating, but we’ll go from there, and see what they have.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Ortiz makes a traffic stop on an unoccupied vehicle that was abandoned at a gas station for about three weeks. The property owner left a note on the car to “please move your vehicle. You have 24 hours or it will be towed.” Corporal Ortiz remarks that “That’s probably the nicest thing I’ve seen a gas station do prior to towing a vehicle…so were just gonna wait for dispatch to let us know what the tag comes back to, double check that it’s not stolen. And if it’s not stolen, it’s on private property, so it’s up to the gas station to tow it at that point.” Abrams: “Got to hope the person shows up to see the note…”
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — On Patrol: Live airs a follow up to the bicycle pursuit last Saturday night as previously promised by Abrams. Abrams: “That night, we told you Gary would be back again, but unfortunately we ran out of time, so a lot of you were asking what happened?” A few night later, Deputy Violet Mendez and other cops take the same man into custody after a foot pursuit. Listen to an incident summary from both Deputy Mendez and another unit:
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Jonathan Muniz and other cops respond to a disturbance at an apartment complex where a woman is allegedly banging on a male’s door and the male allegedly threatened to shoot her. They make contact with a female who appears unsteady on her feet. The male does not answer the door. The female, who Officer Muniz says is intoxicated, apparently goes home in an Uber. Listen to the brief summary from Officer Muniz:
  • Monroe, La. — The HEAT squad make contact with two bicyclists who allegedly don’t or won’t identify. A live translator on the phone assists Cops in communicating with them, one of whom is cuffed. They subsequently provide ID and are both released with no charges.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Brown wraps up what appears to be a routine traffic stop outside a bar/restaurant possibly for smoking weed. After the traffic stop concludes, a bar employee allegedly shouts expletives at Captain Brown (“what’s your language out here in public”) and walks back into the bar despite Brown telling him to stop. Captain Brown enters the establishment and arrests the man. “You’re under arrest for public disorderly conduct. It’s called breach of peace…you’re in a loud and profane manner, cussing in public, trying to cause a scene. That’s illegal…” Abrams: “So that was a surprise.”

Listen to Captain Brown discuss the incident with the manager in which he distinguishes between free speech and what he deemed disorderly conduct:

“…you’re in a loud and profane manner, cussing in public, trying to cause a scene. That’s illegal.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Ortiz and other units investigate a domestic incident of some kind at a residence possibly involving several men and one woman. In the bewildering scenario that consumes an inordinate amount of On Patrol: Live airtime, the corporal makes contact with two (or three) men outside. Corporal Ortiz: “Is Leon her husband or are you her husband?…I’m so confused…are they special friends?” At Corporal Ortiz’s request, the woman eventually answers the front door (“You’re naked? Lets put some clothes on…can you get dressed? I feel like we’re taking a long time to do this…”) and converses with Corporal Ortiz about what’s going on. On Patrol: Live caption: “Three’s company; four’s a crowd.” Corporal Ortiz tries to mediate the situation: “…I’m trying to figure out what I can do to fix this so that we don’t have to come back again.”

“I’m so confused…are they special friends?”

Abrams: “The question has been what possible crime was committed here. It was reported as a domestic incident, and there’s a lot of confusion about who is related to who…I think we’re gonna have to update this next week…”

  • Missing Update (Ill.) and new Missing segment (Los Angeles):
  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Preston Prescia is flagged down by an Uber Eats driver using Google translate. “He’s saying that the item he picked up; it turns out it’s narcotics.”
Click on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 03-79, May 16, 2025.