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

Lt. John Curley (Ret.),, formerly of the Warwick, R.I., PD, returns to the studio as this weekend’s guest analyst.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for May 17, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-75)

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Det. Christian Castano and other units respond to an alleged burglary in progress at a residence. The officers arrive just as the family is pulling into the driveway. The family shows Castano a video purportedly of an alleged intruder from earlier that day. After an investigation and Det. Castano speaking to a daughter on the phone, it turns out that there was no burglary. Det. Castano: “So I spoke with the daughter, who’s of age, saying that she did allow her boyfriend to come in the house, snuck [him] in, against mom’s wishes, so no crime occurred here. The male was allowed into the residence…” OPL host Dan Abrams: “This may be just the beginning for the daughter who snuck the boyfriend in; that’ll be a separate kind of justice.” Co-host Dep. Curtis Wilson: “That’s why she’s not coming home.” Guest analyst Lt. John Curley: “All that police work, and it’s the boyfriend. She’s he’s gonna have bigger problems it looks like.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Tim Riley searches a home for possible squatters.
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Traffic stop on truck; field sobriety testing on an older driver. The OPL camera shows the sky which appears to be displaying the vestiges of a SpaceX launch.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpls. Carli Drayton, Devante Smith, and Devonte Carr serve a warrant on a female who is sitting on a lawn chair in the yard during a barbecue. Cpl. Smith: “She thought she was gonna get one more sip before she goes to jail. That’s a big no-no…I guess she’s a little intoxicated. She had too many Bud Light Limes. That’s how we know to identify her. Every time we come in contact with her, she’s drinking a Bud Light Lime. She probably need to be sponsored by Bud Light…” Caption: “Serving steaks & warrants.”

The deputies subsequently determine that one of the other attendees, the man cooking the food, also has a warrant. Cpl. Drayton: “So we were out at the house. We were serving a warrant, and we started running some people that were out in the yard…and one of the males that was out here has a warrant, and now he has somehow disappeared.” Cpl. Smith implies that man may have given deputies a false name initially. Deputies search the grounds for him and intend to enter the house if he doesn’t come out voluntarily, and they advise the residents accordingly. Abrams: “A different kind of ‘grilling’ than we usually see..” Cpl. Smith: “We play hide and go seek for a living.”

“We play hide and go seek for a living.”

Abrams: “So first question…is what are they gonna need to go in there, right? They’ve got this warrant for a probation parole violation. Is that enough to just go in the house?” Lt. Curley: “It depends. If it’s a felony, then yes. I don’t know if you [to Dep. Wilson] would be able to speak to that better because it’s your neck of the woods. I’m not sure what the thresholds are. But in Rhode Island, if it’s a felony, and you can justify that they’re definitely in there, then you can…” Abrams: “And the warrant is actually out of Columbia, which is in Richland County.” Dep. Wilson: “When you get out of prison early, there [are] certain stipulations and things, guidelines that you have to follow. If you don’t follow them to the number, then you’re gonna violate this probation. You could go back to jail on this one. So he needs to go ahead and just turn himself in. He’s making it more harder on himself.” Abrams later quips that “Leroy may not be the baddest man in the whole damn town, but he certainly should not have lied about his name.”

Eventually the cook comes out and is arrested. Caption: “Steaks now burnt to crisp.” Deputies allegedly find drugs and drug paraphernalia on or next to the grill. Cpl. Smith: “Don’t tell me that they got dope in the chicken…crack on the grill.” Abrams: “That’s gonna be some burnt chicken, crispy chicken, in a little bit, and some unused crack, so a lot of leftovers. Wilson: All the meat with be dark meat.”

“Don’t tell me that they got dope in the chicken…crack on the grill.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Terry Fogarty responds to a stolen vehicle report and makes contact with the victim who apparently left the keys in the car outside of a convenience store when he went inside to buy bubble gum. He also gets info from the store clerk who contacts the manager to access surveillance footage. Cops, including a helicopter unit, will be on the lookout for the vehicle. Dep. Fogarty explains to the man that “once we find the car, we’ll process it for fingerprints and do all that stuff. Unless we find the guy, somebody driving the car, and that’s a whole different ballgame, and then that’s an arrest. That’s the best-case scenario, but I’m preparing you for the worst-case scenario…it’s hit or miss with stolen cars around here…” Fogarty also mentions that “There’s some sketchy people around here…it’s Lee County, man…” The deputy also gives the man some advice about keeping his car secure.

There’s some sketchy people around here…it’s Lee County, man…”

  • Indian River County, Fla. — Sgt. Dwayne Hoilett and other units investigate an alleged disturbance at a hotel in which a man claims his baby mama pepper sprayed him. Sgt. Hoilett speaks with the woman on the phone and encourages her to return to the scene so he can continue the investigation and get her side of the story in person. The sergeant suggests that a no-contact order may be in place on the male as well as the possible domestic battery “so we have two things we need to investigate here…”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofrs. Brandon Ramirez, Carlos Queliz, and other units search for and conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint on a motorist who allegedly tried to run over employees at a car dealership. Ofr. Ramirez implies that cops have allegedly had contentious interactions with the man before. The suspect is pulled out of the car and carried to a patrol car. The subject is apparently charged with aggravated assault. Abrams: It’s amazing the people who are are in a situation like that where all they do is ask questions, right? They’re given an order, told what to do. ‘What’s going on? Why are you doing this?’ What did I do?’ It’s like, just first deal with the situation, which is the officers have their weapons out and are directing you to get out of the car. Curley: “Why make it more difficult than it needs to be? Obviously, you could hear the officers. They were giving good verbal commands…” Wilson: “It’s one of those things where, like you said, you got to ask, tell, and then you make them do it..”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Noah Galbreath initiates a traffic stop for an alleged moving violation. The motorist declines a voluntary car search. K9 deployed for a sniff. Det. Galbreath: “We did a stop on this gentleman for an illegal right-hand turn As I approached the car, I later found out it’s actually someone I’ve dealt with in the past. He actually was shot, I think, abut a week ago. He was shot in the leg and in the rear end. He denied consent. He allowed me to retrieve his firearm, though, for the duration of the stop. He did not consent to search the vehicle, so I believe we’re gonna get a K9 out here and just run an exterior scan of the vehicle. And we’ll go from there.” Abrams: “Wow; tough week for this guy.” The K9 did not alert on the vehicle. Abrams: “So no probable cause there, and he’ll be going on his way.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Noah White makes a traffic stop on a possible suspicious vehicle. “This ain’t your property, though.” Response: “I’m just chilling.” According to Abrams, “and then things quickly ‘heated up.'” The vehicle takes off and the driver and passenger foot-bail into the woods. An ID and chicken wings found in the car. Deputies opt against a K9 track and will seek a warrant for the driver for failure to stop. Cpl. White: “We’ll pick him up later. He’s a regular out here. He won’t be hard to miss, so I’m sure we’ll get him in the next week or so.”

“I’m just chilling.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Galbreath assists VCAT in pursuing a fleeing vehicle. Lt. Curley seems surprised with Galbreath’s unconventional stop-sticks technique. Abrams: “We saw an impressive effort by Detective Galbreath to try to stop that fleeing vehicle; don’t think it succeeded, though.” The vehicle gets away. Galbreath: “The last area that the vehicle was seen, unfortunately, it was driving so recklessly and so fast, we were not able to keep up with it. We’re just trying to surveil it the best we could. But, for now, no one has a visual on it.” Abrams: So obviously gonna be frustrating for him that they weren’t able to get him, but the search will continue.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Smith initiates a traffic stop on an older female (wearing an “alien” T-shirt) for alleged failure to maintain lane.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Cpl. Brandon Williams conducts a traffic stop for alleged failure to move over. Two occupants. The argumentative passenger tells the deputy, among other things, that “Get off me; I’m a Mason.” Drugs allegedly found in the vehicle. Cpl. Williams: “Neither party wanted to admit to the cocaine, which I saw in plain view. The driver here, it is his vehicle, so everything in the vehicle is technically in his possession. So they’ll both be charged; they’ll take a ride…right now, we’re just waiting on a two truck, and we’ll be off to the jail.” Abrams: “So he mentioned a Mason there, and immediately we had different definitions of what a Mason is…” Curley: “I was thinking construction. And clearly he’s good with working with rocks.” Abrams: “…but how is that gonna help him?” Wilson: “The other one is an organization that deals with individuals who are upstanding citizens of the community.” Abrams: “A fraternity, right?” Wilson: “…and they do a lot of great things in the community…” Abrams: “Right; he was just trying to use it to try to get out of [it].”

“Get off me; I’m a Mason.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Drayton initiates a traffic stop on a driver for allegedly speeding in a construction zone. The argumentative driver probably will be released with a warning.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Fogarty and other units plus paramedics respond to the scene where a man was reportedly stabbed 12 times in the chest. The victim is transported to a trauma center. Three men at the scene are detained. Detectives to take over the investigation. Abrams: “A lot of Modelos there — never a good thing to mix with a knife.”
  • Indian River County, Fla. — Det. Castano and other units conduct a traffic stop; two occupants. The driver allegedly has no license. Castano wonders why the female passenger was doing her makeup in the middle of a traffic stop with the implication that she may have been trying to hide some drugs. Drugs allegedly found during a car search. Both occupants arrested. Abrams: “That’s the second alien T-shirt we’ve seen, and then there was the SpaceX launch.”

Abrams: “So it seems she’s going to jail on a drug charge, but he’s going to jail on a separate charge.” Wilson: “Right. He has a driving infraction that took place, so he’s gonna go for that, plus, of course, the totality of the situation, the drugs being in that vehicle.” Abrams: “Also, in part, based on what she’s saying — they can’t determine who’s telling the truth…and he’s making the point that eventually the courts will sort it it.” Wilson: “And his record.” Curley: “Tough day for her, but you’re only as good as the company you keep, I guess.” Abrams: “If what she’s saying is true.” Curley: “Correct.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Riley races to the scene where a bleeding woman was reportedly screaming for help outside a fast-food restaurant. The store manager didn’t see anything, however. Deputies subsequently locate the woman on a nearby sidewalk, and paramedics transport her to the hospital. Cpl. Riley: ‘It looks like this is actually more of a domestic. Now we have a little more information. Also, it was not just a regular hit and run. It turns out that this was indeed an assault. She was intentionally run over by her ex-boyfriend, and she certainly has injuries consistent with that. So we’ve got a couple of addresses where he might be…” Cpl. Riley later spots a car outside a motel that might fit the description, but the engine is cold, so it’s not it.
  • Triple Play #1 (in two parts) — Columbus, Ohio, pursuit of a fleeing stolen car.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Det. Galbreath make a traffic stop on a man riding a bike for some kind of bicycle violation. Caption: “To infinity and beyond?” The man is released with a warning. Galbreath: “Everything came back good; no warrants or nothing like that. We knew him from a past call last year; operating a stolen vehicle. Looks like he’s on the up and up now…” Abrams: “That’s a good thing, right? We should be pleased when someone pulled over and is not a problem.” Wilson: “Not a problem at all. Everything checks out.” Curley: “It’s a nice change of pace.” Abrams: “Exactly…I want to sometimes appreciate the good things, the good moments…”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Multiple officers respond to a wedding where a guest may have been allegedly overserved. An argumentative man is detained at the scene. Abrams; “It also doesn’t seem he was dressed appropriately for the wedding.” Lt. Curley: “He wasn’t the only one.” In her summary, Ofr. Brooke Janowiecki alludes to a fight among the attendees. “When somebody pushed him over, he fell and hit his head, so now we have to wait for Fire to come out and check him out. And then he’s gonna go to jail for evening.”
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Abrams introduces the segment by explaining that “a fisherman discovered a bag left near the water, and what was inside turned out to be really ‘fowl.'” Dep. Mike DuBois responds to a report of a bag of beheaded chickens found in the water. Animal control also called to the scene. It appears to be from some kind of ritual. Dep. Dubois: “Animal control took the carcasses of the chickens for disposal. We photographed the scene, and that should be the end of it. Unfortunately, it’s more of a nuisance than it is a crime because people have the right to exercise their religious freedom as they see fit.” Abrams: “I’ll admit that is a paella I did not need to see.” Wilson: “It’s almost like you can smell how bad that was.” Curley: “I’m taking a little break from chicken, I think, the next couple of days.”

“A fisherman discovered a bag left near the water, and what was inside turned out to be really ‘fowl.'”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Janowiecki along with colleague Ofr. Lindsey Erhart and other officers make contact with an apparently tipsy man in a giraffe costume at a bus stop who says he has no money for an Uber or a taxi. “I went to the gentleman’s club.” Officer on scene: “That was your first mistake.” Ofr. Erhart calls someone and arranges a ride home for the man, who some OPL fans think is the same guy who was wearing a Batman costume during an episode about a year ago. Abrams: “Apparently, he is well known to the department there. They call him Eastside Allen, and the good news is, he wasn’t trying to drive. So there’s a silver lining to everything.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — At an apartment complex, Dep. Fogarty and a colleague aske a resident there to come out of his unit but he appears reluctant to do so. “I need to give you some paperwork…just come to the door…be a man and come to the door…I’ll stay here all night.” Caption: “If the deputy is knockin..’.” The man finally comes out and is detained.

Dep. Fogarty synopis: “I was actually gonna call the complainant and see if she can open the door for us. So he came to the door, and that’s why we snatched him and put him in handcuffs. And we’ll figure out if he actually violates the injunction. And if that’s the case, then we’re gonna arrest him and take him to jail.” Abrams: “So an injunction is a court order. So trying to figure out exactly what the court order is here that they’re serving.” Dep. Fogarty follow-up: “He does have an injunction, but it hasn’t been served yet. So we’re gonna serve him with the injunction as soon as they email it to us. The wife in there is going to gather up his clothes, and he’s not coming back into this apartment. So we’re gonna kick him loose from here, and then, of course, if he comes back, then we’ll arrest him. He does have two active injunctions, but those are for his ex-wife, his former wife, and kids, So that’s what we got going on.” Abrams: “So it seems that this is what is often known as a restraining order, that he has to stay away.”

  • Toledo, Oho — Ofrs. Mike Gee and Chris Mulinix, along with other units, respond to a shots-fired call in a residential neighborhood. They search the area for an alleged tossed gun. The subject vehicle is also located.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — As the episode concludes, Sgt. Marcus Booth investigates a report of an alleged domestic disturbance/fight in a residential neighborhood that may possibly include a female with a gun.

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