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

A recap of the May 10, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 03-78), anchored in the NYC studio by attorney and host/executive producer Dan Abrams along with fellow On Patrol: Live studio cast members/co-hosts, Curtis Wilson and Tom Rizzo, plus guest analyst Detective Danielly De Andrade, follows.

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On Patrol: Live tonight: In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, two separate calls about individuals wandering around in their underwear seems to generate the most reaction on social media along with a family feud in Richland County and an owl in Berkeley County. Moreover, the studio tech who runs the bleep button got a workout tonight because profanity was rampant in several police incidents. See below for details on all 27 law enforcement encounters (with some loose ends as usual) in eight On Patrol: Live departments on this new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

Next weekend, retired police officer Sean “Sticks” Larkin, the original member of the On Patrol: Live studio triumvirate, returns to the set to provide analysis.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for May 10, 2025 (#OPL Episode 03-78)

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  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Jonah Singer and other units respond to the scene where a man is passed out behind the wheel with the vehicle still running. Officer Singer awakens the man who says he’s fine. When asked if there are any weapons in the vehicle, the driver quips “me.” The motorist appears to admit to consuming one shot of vodka. He declines field sobriety testing but expresses a willingness to take a breathalyzer.
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Chris Johnson and Lieutenant Joseph Toombs assist a neighboring agency in the pursuit. The suspect apparently bailed from a vehicle is now on foot. On Patrol: Live caption: “Searching for suspect.” The search is subsequently called off.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — K9 Officer Joshua Bowers detains a man on a porch who allegedly ran from them the other night. During a contentious back and forth, the subject vehemently insists that “I didn’t do nothing…what have I done…?” Cops subsequently release the man who, it turns out, has no warrants.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Roger Carlin initiates a traffic stop for speeding. Using officer’s discretion, he releases the driver with a warning, as he explains in the audio clip below.
  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Alexander Charmi and other units respond to a call at a trailer park about someone trying to break in to a home. On Patrol: Live caption: Report of break-in while intoxicated.” Police detain a man in his underwear, but he turns out to be the resident of the trailer in question. According to the deputy,
  • “nothing’s going on,” and the subject allegedly “got drunk, couldn’t get inside his own house. And fell asleep and started probably pissing right in front of the doorstep.”

Listen to the On Patrol: Live studio panel banter about this incident before it gets resolved (On Patrol: Live analyst Tom Rizzo: “…an average person would say that didn’t happen. And then you answer the door, and the next guy’s wearing his underwear.”):

Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant Christopher Maher attempts a traffic stop but the vehicle allegedly flees. The occupants bail from the car, prompting a foot chase at an apartment complex. The driver is detained. According to Sergeant Maher, the suspect is likely charged with fleeing and eluding and resisting arrest. “Don’t flee from the police in Daytona because you’re gonna go to jail.” Car search; drugs allegedly found.

Listen below as Detective De Andrade and other studio panelists discuss how emotions can run high during a police chase:

  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Singer and colleagues converge on a residence after a shots-fired call on a front lawn. No one answers the door at the home, however.
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporals Rachel Salka and Hunter Rogers respond to the scene where an possibly injured owl is in the middle of the road. Corporal Salka contacts a local animal rehabilitator by phone to potentially take charge of the owl. In the meantime, however, when a neighbor tries to pick up the owl with a towel, it flies into a tree.

On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “So this is actually the second Barred owl we have seen in Berkeley County on this show. I’m not gonna pretend that I knew that that was a Barred owl. Our bird watcher, Evan, is a producer on the show, said that is a Barred owl, and his guess is the owl may have gotten hit and just shaken up. And once that woman lifted the owl up, it got the owl going. But that is just speculation. I can’t say we’re gonna keep an eye on this because my guess is we are moving on.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Deputy Rogers and other units are en route to a disturbance allegedly involving a firearm.
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Johnson and Lieutenant Toombs conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint outside a convenience store upon a report of an alleged stolen car. The car belongs to the driver’s mom. “You smoke crack, don’t you?…you’ve been smoking in your mama’s car…you stole a car and you’re smoking crack in it. That’s why you’re in the position you’re in now.” The mom apparently wants to press charges.

Deputy Johnson initial summary: “So right now, this vehicle, it hit our Flock cameras as a stolen vehicle, and we were able to locate it, watch them. The safest thing to do, we watched them pull it into the…gas station, pull it into a parking lot. That’s a safe space. We know he can’t go forward, so I was able to block it in and do a felony stop along with Lieutenant Toombs, and we were able to get him detained without further incident. He’s saying that the car belongs to his mom, and allegedly he was supposed to take the car back yesterday, and he didn’t take the car back yesterday. So we’re gonna try to get in contact with the registered owner and see…if it is stolen, and if she wants to prosecute, and if she wants to go prosecute, he’ll be under arrest, but if she does not want to go forward, and because that is her son, we’ll release him on scene.” Abrams: “So it will be up to the 93-year-old mom as to whether this guy is gonna be going to jail tonight. We shall see. We’ll update you.”

Abrams later adds that “apparently they called mom, and mom said prosecute him.” Detective De Andrade: “Happy Mother’s Day.” Abrams: “Happy Mother’s Day for her; she got her car back, I guess…the Mother’s Day present…I wouldn’t have predicted that one. I would have called that mom was gonna say ‘oh, it’s a day late…’ But no; he getting the charge.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Avery Arrington and colleagues investigate a shots-fired call. The deputy notices that someone has rummaged through the glove boxes of parked cars outside of what appears to be a storage facility.
  • Las Vegas, Nev. — Officer Jacob Bowden purchases a Mother’s Day stuffed animal, a.k.a. a plushie, for his wife from a vendor operating out of truck. On Patrol: Live caption: “Grin and bear it for mom.” Abrams: “Do you think it adds to or detracts from the gift that his wife is now gonna know where he got it?…It could be viewed as charming…and on the other hand, it could be viewed as ‘you got me a gift from the back of a truck?'” Dective De Andrade: “Well, actually, he’s helping another person in the community so I think that was good.” On Patrol: Live co-host Curtis Wilson: “A nice love note in a card.” Abrams: “..and I thought the guy was being pulled over for something. No. He’s actually shopping.” Abrams then wishes Detective De Andrade a happy Mother’s Day. “You’re the only mother on the set with us.” Detective De Andrade” “I would hope, right?” Abrams: “…I’m fairly certain…yes, it’s accurate.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputies Devon Brown and Zemarion Meeks track an alleged stolen SUV. The driver is detained after a traffic stop and describes what he allegedly did as “stupid…just dumb.” Deputy Meeks: “We’re going to have charges for being in possession of a stolen vehicle, and Atlanta will do the actual auto theft of the vehicle. So, no incidents, no accidents, and we got a successful arrest and somebody’s vehicle back.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Bryce Hughes makes a friendly traffic stop at a gas station for a brake light issue.
  • Triple Play #3 — a Morganville, Calif., violent supermarket disturbance.

Abrams: “When I saw that employee lying down on the floor, it was suddenly like, wow, okay, this is very serious.” Rizzo: “And that’s the same type of response that you have to do for what we call active threats, active shooting situations. Just because it’s a knife, you don’t know what else the person could be armed with, and then the risk of harm literally to other people — in that case, a store employee.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Bowers conducts a traffic stop for no headlights. Possible language barrier. The driver, who is near his home, is detained but is subsequently released with a warning.
  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Violet Mendez and other units pursue a bicyclist for no lights who allegedly didn’t stop. Cops detain the bicyclist. Drugs allegedly found. Deputy Mendez: “There’s a little bit of methamphetamine in here, and it looks like marijuana…ultimately, he’s gonna be going to the hospital, and he has some underlying medical conditions. He’ll be charged with obstruction, possession of a controlled substance and drug…paraphernalia.” Abrams notes that there is another encounter on film with the same individual upcoming possibly during next weekend’s episodes of On Patrol: Live because time ran out to air it before this show concluded. Abrams: “You have not seen the last of [the subject]; I leave it at that.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — The Maher brothers (Chris and James) along with Detective Maycon MacDowel and other cops investigate an alleged drug transaction on the street in a “very busy area for narcotics.” They detain a male and female on scene. “I ain’t got nothing…I didn’t give her sh*t, bro…” Police suspect drugs may have been allegedly discarded on the ground. The male is charged; the female is released.

Sergeant Chris Maher: “…obviously he’s got some drugs in here that’s packaged from my training and experience for sales. He also made some comments to me when I was talking to him briefly: He’s out here for his kids. He apparently was just arrested for selling drugs out here, and he’s back out here doing it again. His reasoning — it seems like he’s trying to make some money for his kids. That’s not the way you make money to raise your kids. You got to be a good example…you’re ruining other people’s lives by selling…especially nowadays with fentanyl. People are dying left and right, and…it’s illegal, but it’s also not morally right…” Abrams: “To be clear, it seems this wasn’t a drug deal. This was actually a couple. And the question was who’s gonna take the rap for the drugs that they saw on the ground. Apparently both touched it, so sounds like they’re both going?…we’ll find out.”

Listen to the a audio clip below as Sergeant James Maher explains that the male will be charged with alleged possession of crack with intent to distribute; the female will be released to go home to their kids.

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Thomas Millsaps investigates a prowler at a mobile home area.

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Ethyn Perkins backs up Sergeant Hughes on a call about alleged loitering at a gas station. Cops allegedly discover a large amount of vapes in a subject’s backpack.

Sergeant Hughes summary: “So we got out with this individual at the gas station because there’s issues with littering and whatnot over here, so seeing that she had arrived. During it, we got consent to search her book bag, and she went ahead and let us know that she’s got all these THC vapes in there. And while speaking with her, she claims that all of these vape packages were given to her by a random guy off the street, and he just, I guess, for free, nicely, decided to give them to her and said that they are — she can get 50% off of them for street value to pay her phone bill. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense her story here, and we have had several…vape store burglaries recently, so that just raises suspicion and is pretty concerning at this time.” Abrams: “It sounds like she’s saying it was a vape good Samaritan who gave her a lot of vapes. We’ll see.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Arrington makes a friendly traffic stop for no headlights. Passenger: It’s Mother’s Day; I can drink. At least my son got my back; he’s driving for me.” Deputy Arrington: “That’s true; it’s a good son right there.”

#AskDany Q&A:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Bowers investigates an alleged shoplifting incident at Krogers and detains a couple in the parking lot. The couple is subsequently released in the absence of evidence supporting the shoplifting allegation. Officer Bowers: “So they have no way of proving that a shoplifting actually occurred, so there’s nothing we can do from a legal standpoint as far as continuous detainment or arrest.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Arrington and other cops respond to a family dispute. The chaotic, contentious situation results in several individuals detained.

Listen to Deputy Arrington recap the incident initially (“we’re trying to calm everybody down…”) followed by some studio commentary:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — The Maher brothers and other cops are on scene for a traffic stop for an alleged improper right-hand turn. Driver: “What is the probable cause?” Sergeant Chris Maher: “Improper right-hand turn.” Driver: “Are you for real?” Abrams: “So if it’s just the improper turn, this is not gonna be a big deal. Now they’re gonna do a field sobriety test because they did find an open container.” Abrams update: “The guy was actually arrested — the guy with the wrong turn — for driving under the influence.”

Abrams explains earlier in the incident: “This guy…was involved in a minor traffic infraction and seems a little bit confused and frustrated for why he was pulled over at all.”

Listen to some of Sergeant Maher’s interaction with the irate motorist:

Missing segment — South Jordan, Utah.

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant James Maher and colleagues respond to a “report of naked man in dumpster,” per the On Patrol: Live caption. Additional On Patrol: Live caption: “Searching for naked man running.” Cops detain a man in his underwear. On Patrol: Live caption: “Clothed suspect in custody.” The suspect addresses the OPL camera: “Hey to America: I tried my best, bro, but they got me.”

Sergeant Maher recap: “…suspicious person turned naked, not fully naked, but at least taking his clothes off. Suspicious person then started climbing buildings. Seems like a nice guy. I don’t know what his issue is tonight, but he’s gonna go to jail. He ran from us. He was at least criminally trespassing on top of the building. And that’s it. You never know what you get in Daytona.”

  • Monroe, La. — As the episode ends, conducts conduct a traffic stop apparently in connection with a warrant.
Click on this link for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 03-77, May 9, 2025.