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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Agency updates: Moore, Okla., PD joins the rotation of law enforcement agencies this weekend. Monroe, La., PD has rotated out at least for now. And Wheeling, W.Va., PD has signed a contract to join the show sometime this summer or fall.

On Patrol: Live tonight: In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, notable incidents included the Richland County pursuit that opened the show, a car vs. bicycle accident in Daytona Beach (from which #OPNation drew different conclusions), and two separate incidents in which motorists were in a hurry for a restroom break.

See below for details on the 23 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 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.

On Patrol: Live Recap for May 30, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-83)

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  • Richland County, S.C. (just prior to air) — Lieutenant Chris Blanding initiates a traffic stop that becomes a foot pursuit after a passenger bails. The latter is detained at a residence. “I didn’t do nothing.” Two other vehicle occupants are also detained. On Patrol: Live caption: “Gun found.” Lieutenant Blanding: “You ran because you had a gun, huh?…what do you mean it’s not yours? It’s in your pants!” Bleeping. Car search. “Not my gun.” Blanding: “How is it not your gun when it was deep into your pants?”

Lieutenant Blanding’s initial recap: “I’m actually familiar with him…he wants to break into cars, steal guns. He is gang affiliated…we did a search warrant on this house, and we got 19 guns last time, and six or seven were stolen. As soon as I saw him hop out, I knew exactly who he was. So I was not surprised he had a gun on him…” On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “…he’s not supposed to be in possession of weapons, and he had a gun in his pants…”

“…what do you mean it’s not yours? It’s in your pants!”

Listen to Lieutenant Blanding’s wrap-up in which he mentions that the gun comes back clear but the subject apparently will be arrested. Lieutenant Blanding asserts that “you wannna do stupid things, then you get stupid prizes…today, it’s a trip to jail.” According to Abrams, the other two individuals will likely be released.

Listen to a further update provided by Dan Abrams:

  • Moore, Okla. — After a friendly traffic stop for alleged highway speeding (72 mph in a 65-mph zone), Officer Christopher Muter releases the driver with a warning and an explanation of the rules of the road.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Jonathan Muniz checks in with other cops at the scene of a purported disturbance allegedly prompted by an eight-year-old child.
  • Knox County, Tenn, (pre-recorded segment) — Officers John Longendorf and Joseph Stainback respond to a stabbing that occurred at the conclusion of last Saturday’s On Patrol: Live episode. Police subdue a man outside a residence who is resisting; taser deployed. “I didn’t do nothing…I was drunk…” Bleeping. That individual was apparently the victim and allegedly the aggressor. “You’ve been stabbed, bro.” Cops also detain several others on scene. Paramedics summoned and transport the man to the hospital for “a pretty gnarly gash on his back.” After an initial investigation, Officer Longendorf suggests that “as of right now, looks like it was a self-defense thing…” Detectives to take over the investigation.

Listen to Officer Longendorf’s recap followed by a studio panel discussion about this incident during which Abrams observes that “this is just a classic example of a chaotic scene where police have to kind of sort out good guys from bad guys, and it’s not always easy…”:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Christian Greene makes a traffic stop for allegedly rolling through a stop sign and for loud music.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Alison Watkins and other units conduct a traffic stop for a non-functioning license plate light. Alleged odor of weed. The driver declines a consensual search and denies that any contraband is in the car or smoking in the car. He does make a reference to differential fluid. K9 deployed; K9 alert. Probable cause car search. No contraband found; Officer Watkins claims that she allegedly spotted “a little bit of shake in a…container, but that was about it.” Cops issue a citation for the tag light infraction and release the driver who seemed unhappy during the process. Heavy bleeping.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Green makes routine contact with three dumpster divers outside a closed business. On Patrol: Live caption: “Dumpster diving in progress.” Abrams: “Remember, this isn’t always illegal.” Deputy Greene: “What are you guys up to? Response: “Shopping…” Deputy Greene: “…it’s a closed business, so you really can’t be back there.” The deputy checks their IDs. Abrams: “Says they’re shopping. I guess it’s a different kind of flea market.”

Abrams: “Says they’re shopping. I guess it’s a different kind of flea market.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Carey initiates a traffic stop for alleged speeding (62 mph in a 35-mph zone). The driver indicates that he is rushing to get to his destination because he has to go to the bathroom. Abrams: “That adds another element to this stop.” On Patrol: Live caption: “When you got to go, you got to go.” The lieutenant issues three traffic citations and sends the driver on this way. “Don’t speed getting there, or you’ll get pulled over again.” For the On Patrol: Live camera, he adds that “…hopefully, he’ll make it. If not, he’ll be in a sticky situation.” Abrams: “He’s got to go, and we got to go to a break…”

Listen to some of Lieutenant Cary’s interaction with the driver:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Gabriel Marquez is among the first responders on scene at a house fire. The homeowner seems unhappy with having to answer the dispatcher’s “150 questions.”
  • Lee County, Fla. — Along with the fire department and paramedics, Deputy Greene responds to a two-car accident and investigates on scene. A female driver says that she’s fine. The other driver, who allegedly may or may not be intoxicated, is transported to the hospital. The state highway patrol is dispatched to the scene to further investigate the crash.

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Master Deputy Collins Harper makes a traffic stop. The driver says he has “the runnies,” a.k.a. diarrhea, and he’s trying to get home. In a records check, Deputy Harper find that the driver allegedly received eight speeding tickets in five years. “How does he still have a license.” He issues the driver a minor civil citation for improper passing and sends the driver on his way. “Hopefully, he is a little bit smarter when he is driving and can get to a location where he can take care of his situation and maybe slow down and not have the runnies.” Abrams jokes that “I don’t know that he realized when said that the issue was an improper passing that that could actually go a number of ways here…” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Or a smart car — is it a shart car?”

“I don’t know that he realized when said that the issue was an improper passing that that could actually go a number of ways here…”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Carey and another unit make a traffic stop at gunpoint on a truck with possibly stolen tags. In the audio clip embedded below, Lieutenant Carey outlines the investigation so far followed by Tom Rizzo explaining how the nuances of dealer plates vary from state to state which can complicate this kind of investigation. The two occupants, a father and daughter, are subsequently released with no charges.

Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Travis Field initiates a traffic stop on a pickup truck for a non-functioning headlight. The vehicle has various kinds of quirky stickers.

Listen as Abrams quips that one of the decals made him think of Tom Rizzo — “the walking HR violation…”

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Green and other units search on foot in a trailer park area for an alleged shoplifter or attempted shoplifter. K9 Vader deployed with Deputy Jacob Sahagian. On Patrol: Live caption: “Search for fleeing suspect.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputy Austin Longieliere and Corporals Devonte and and Carli Carr respond to a domestic incident at a residence allegedly involving a weapon. They detain a male and a female on scene. Abrams: “…it now appears [cops] are just trying to de-escalate what was a report of a domestic incident. The claim was a woman with a knife. This guy was put in cuffs, and now looks like he’s being taken out of cuffs, and they’re hoping to just separate them for the night.”

Listen to Corporal Devonte Car sum up the situation as cops exit the scene followed by some commentary from Abrams:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal Tim Riley makes an affable traffic stop for no plates and running a stop sign. The driver seems to indicate that he is in a hurry because he’s bringing a birthday gift to a female friend. Abrams: “She’s young; just because she’s got a boyfriend now doesn’t mean that he can’t become her boyfriend in the future.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “Trying to impress her up.” Abrams: “That’s what he’s trying to do. Trying to be subtle. But still enough to say maybe there’s something there.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Operating in friend zone?”
  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Ethan Holmes initiates a traffic stop. Driver: “I literally live right here.” Officer Holmes: “I’m not gonna impound your car…I’m gonna tell you this, though. Definitely stop driving until you get insurance on that thing, and you get a valid license, okay? Because you can’t be doing that, because not every cop’s like me and is gonna cut that break…” Abrams: “It sounds like as long as they don’t find anything else, as long as nothing else happens, this guy’s gonna get cut a break. No insurance and no valid license. This sounds like he’s going through a rough patch. The officers understand it and they’re not gonna impound his car.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops respond to a car vs. bicycle accident which apparently happened almost in front of Officer Muniz. The bicyclist is on the ground; paramedics arrive and transport him to the hospital. The car involved is a vintage vehicle; the driver allegedly has no license. The driver ends up getting arrested. Surveillance video captured the accident and is aired on On Patrol: Live.

Listen to Abrams, Curtis Wilson, and Tom Rizzo react to the video of the accident:

Officer Muniz’s initial assessment of the accident: “…so we had the…green turning arrows to go eastbound…He’s saying that he was coming northbound ..so we had green; that means he has red at that point. So it looks like he ran the red light. This gentleman on the bicycle was coming across the street. It looks like he struck him, and immediately this gentleman came into one of the local establishments, parked. I was clearly concerned about him, so we’ll figure out everything at the moment.”

Abrams: “So Officer Muniz there explaining to us what happened because it was a little bit confusing based on where we saw those cars. But it looks like that open-aired car, let’s call it, vintage vehicle, was the one that hit the biker, and Officer Muniz pointing out that his account of how it happened doesn’t really add up, because they were actually on the scene at the moment that it happened with regard to the lights being red or green.”

Additional information from Officer Muniz: “We were just making a left-hand turn, trying to go towards the beach side, and I had a couple cars in front of us. As soon as we were making that left-hand turn, because we had the green light, a couple of cars slammed on their brakes, and looked to see, you got a pedestrian on a bicycle on the ground, and then you have this vehicle kind of loaded around, moving around, into this parking lot. So thank God he stayed, or else it would have been a hit and run. But at this point, he knows he doesn’t have a Florida driver’s license, so if he doesn’t have a Florida license, he should be operating a vehicle, which in turn, he should not be on the road. And therefore, this would never happen. So, bad decisions, bad things happen.”

“So, bad decisions, bad things happen.”

Officer Ashlyn Cooper provides a further update:” So right now we had the pedestrian — he was going eastbound…we had the car. I’m sorry, the motorcycle. He ran this red light and hit him. Thankfully, the pedestrian had minor injuries. It just looks like he’s gonna have a little bit of neck pain, a little bit of back pain. What we’re gonna do is we’re going to secure his bike, so thankfully he can come get it when he gets out. And patrol’s gonna, we’re gonna, do a crash report. And thankfully no one was hurt.” Abrams: “And to be clear, when she says pedestrian, she means that the person who was on the bike.” Officer Marquez follow-up recap: “So again, this vehicle was involved in a crash. He ran the red light. Post-Miranda, he advised that he didn’t have a good license. The other subject that was hit crossing the road with an electric bicycle — he ended up going to a local hospital. So again, eventually since he admitted his license was bad, he’s gonna be taking the ride tonight..”

  • Triple Play #1 — a Thurston County, Wash., pursuit.
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Carey makes a traffic stop for alleged speeding (91 mph in a 65-mph zone). To the driver, he asks “how much weed do you have in the car, because I can smell the weed coming from your car.” While awaiting for backup to arrive, Lieutenant Carey mentions to the On Patrol: Live camera that “he claims it’s a new car, but I also smell weed in his car.” Probable cause car search. Abrams notices that cops place stop sticks under the tires “to make sure they’re ‘sticking’ around.” Bags and mason jars containing weed allegedly found in the vehicle. The male driver is arrested; the female passenger is released with no charges.

Abrams: “Wait — those aren’t school supplies in that backpack.” Rizzo: “No, and it’s not back to school, is it?” Abrams: “Although in some schools they’d probably be very pleased to have that stuff…” Rizzo: “In the school hydroponic?”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Lieutenant Blanding responds to a shots-fired call in or near a parking lot. He makes contact with and detains one male on scene. Upon a radio alert from Lieutenant Blanding, other deputies pull over a car that had driven away and detain the occupants after a PIT maneuver.

Listen to Lieutenant Blanding’s initial recap followed by studio commentary (Abrams: “Wow…so it turned into a PIT, and they’ve got everyone detained”):

Lieutenant Blanding update: “So right now, we’re just getting evidence left here at the scene. So also just got notification from one of the local hospitals that someone just arrived with a gunshot wound. So we have one of the investigators headed down there to figure out if they’re involved, which is probably more likely…we have blood here…gun pieces, magazines, shell casings, projectiles, blood. Whole nine yards…it just a chaotic scene, trying to figure out what’s going on right now, so hopefully, it’s gonna get solved, but we’ll see. We just keep finding more and more stuff.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officers Muniz and Cooper assist the Violent Crime Apprehension Team (VCAT) on a traffic stop. In respond to a question from a subject, one of the cops explains that the videographers are filming a documentary.
  • Moore, Okla. — Officer Muter and other units respond to a report of a man brandishing a long gun, gather info from one or more witnesses, and search the area for a suspect. Listen to Officer Muter’s initial summary:
Clink on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode #03-84, May 31, 2025  [forthcoming] .