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

A recap of the September 20, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 04-18) on Reelz, anchored in the New York City studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams along with studio analysts and Tom Rizzo and Sean “Sticks” Larkin, follows below. On Patrol: Live cast member Curtis Wilson is off this weekend.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

For #OPNation, a contentious Richland County traffic stop, a Knox County steak-out, and a callback to Britney Spears in Daytona Beach were among the primary highlights of this all-new episode of On Patrol: Live on Reelz.

For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 24 law enforcement incidents across eight On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for September 20, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-18)

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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Richie Maher and other officers investigate a hit-and-run accident and search for suspect vehicle. Abrams: “BOLOing does not involve pins, but it does involve trying to find somebody you want to find.” Lt. Maher subsequently explains that the purported suspect driver “called in and said that they were the other party involved the crash.” Cops make contact with the driver who is parked outside an apartment complex. The car has obvious damage. Lt. Maher: “That would be a clue.” After speaking with the driver, Lt. Maher mentions that “he said that he was under the impression that the other car was gonna follow him in here.” Lt. Maher also opines that “I’m not sure how far I’d buy his story that he thought he was being followed in here, but he does have really dark tint and airbag deployment. So I’m gonna do some research on this car and see why he chose here.” The accident victim does want to prosecute.

Lt. Maher: “He told us that the reason he didn’t stop because he just wanted to get home, which you can’t do. When you get in a crash, you got to stop.”

In the audio clip of his initial assessment embedded below, Lt. Maher explains that while another cop on scene Mirandizes and questions the driver, “I’m staying back a little bit because if he goes to run, I want to have a good open field to grab him.” He also jokes about another officer’s short but “super fast” legs.

Listen to Lt. Maher further discuss this incident, including some impromptu sound effects, and explains that there might be a potential charge or charges, but the driver is only detained for now as the investigation continues. Abrams then observes that “now they have to assess whether they’re gonna end up charging him for this”:

  • Lee County, Fla. — Deputy Layne Reeves and other units respond to a report of a fight in a hotel parking lot involving several persons who have rooms at the location. Deputy Reeves claims that “they’re all intoxicated.” Potential language barrier with those on scene. Another deputy translates. Deputy Reeves and colleagues subsequently spot a suspect in the nearby woods and detain him after a brief foot pursuit. An ambulance arrives to treat a victim of the fight for facial lacerations and who is in one of the hotel rooms. Investigation ongoing.

Deputy Reeves’ initial assessment: “These guys are being super uncooperative with us. They’re claiming they didn’t see a fight. They weren’t drinking alcohol over there. They didn’t hear nothing, see nothing. They’re being dishonest. The hotel manager is telling us there’s more than just these individuals. So we’re gonna make contact with the other people in the rooms. We still haven’t found anybody that would be bleeding that heavily from the blood that we see on the sidewalk. So we’re gonna at least identify these guys, make sure they don’t have any warrants or anything like that, and try to make contact with the other people.”

Deputy Reeves follow-up: “So right now, of the guys that we had detained that was standing in over the corner there — he just decided for whatever reason, he’s gonna take off running out in the mangrove. So we had to chase him down. Whenever Deputy Perez is all finished up, we gonna see why he did what he did.”

“Sheriff’s Office; that’s my name.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal TJ Norton attempts a traffic stop for speeding. The vehicle initially pulls over but then flees. A pursuit ensues which includes at least one PIT maneuver. As the pursuit ends, Cpl. Norton detains the vocal driver: “I’m not resisting,” “I ain’t doing sh*t,” “I didn’t do sh*t.” Bleeping. Car search; possible open container allegedly found. The driver denies drinking.

Cpl. Norton: “Why didn’t you stop when I blue-lighted you?” Driver: “I ain’t see no blue light.”

Abrams: “He ‘didn’t know’ that he was being pull over. I wonder what he thought after the first PIT maneuver, right?…”

Cpl. Norton recap: “So we got the gentleman stopped. He’s in custody right now. We’re gonna check the car and make sure the car is good. We originally stopped the vehicle for speed. He pulls over. As we were approaching the vehicle, he decides he’s gonna take off. A chase ensues. We tried to PIT the vehicle out. He stayed in it. He then come to a stop right here and got him in custody without any questions. So we’re gonna continue checking the car, make sure that everything is good, get a tow truck en route, and get him on to the jail here in a second.” According to Cpl. Norton, the man faces several potential charges such as allegedly speeding, failure to stop for blue lights, reckless driving, and DUI.

Listen to the studio panel react to the incident, including that a crowd had gathering at the scene when before backup arrived:

Listen to a follow-up summary by K9 Specialist Datron Washington:

Abrams: “It is yet early in the evening. We’ve already had a vehicle pursuit and a foot chase, and we still got a lot of show left.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Devon Brown, Lieutenant Jonathan Carey, and other units spot an alleged stolen vehicle at an apartment complex parking lot. They knock on the door of an apartment unit and detain a young man who was allegedly seen exiting the vehicle. The female resident who owns the car insists that the vehicle is not stolen. When they all go outside and she produces the registration paperwork from the vehicle, it turns out that someone potentially switched her license plate. “That’s not my tag…somebody stole my tag.” The male is released, and the call ends amicably. Police will file a report that will enable her to get a new tag at the DMV; the report will designate the missing plate as stolen.

Larkin: “…oftentimes, what happens is somebody who’s driving in a stolen car — because of license plate readers or just an officer running a tag at a stoplight — they’re gonna switch that tag out off the stolen car.” Abrams: “So someone might have stolen her actual tag…”

Abrams: “So they sorted it out. She just wants to make sure that she can drive her car in the meantime, but seems that she didn’t realize that someone had swapped out her license plate for a stolen plate. And she just learned it…everyone’s gonna be going there way there.”

Abrams (earlier in the investigation): “So we’re starting to piece this together a little bit better…it looks like they’re gonna probably be all cleared.” — listen:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Hunter Hunley and other units execute a search warrant at a residence. One of the cops feeds a detained older male a piece of steak.

Abrams: “That is a different kind of stakeout. I haven’t seen one of those on the show before.” Rizzo: “It would have been impressive, though, like I was saying, ‘now, here comes the airplane.'”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Triple Play #3 — An Idaho Springs, Colo., dangerous traffic accident at a traffic stop.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Arriving at an apartment complex, Lt. Maher and other cops serve a domestic incident warrant on a female. Lt. Maher claims that “she strangled her son several times, actually. She’s also on probation for aggravated assault.” The female is detained on scene.

Officer Gabriel Marquez recap: “We got here in reference to a subject with a felony warrant out of our agency. She’s in custody now — right now. Officer Michael here is gonna continue the investigation that occurred a few days ago. So, she’s in custody now. We’re gonna make sure her husband is good. That’s what Lieutenant Maher is doing right now. And we’re gonna go on to the next call here.” Abrams: “All right. So, again, the son called police and said that she’d strangled him. They’ve got to sort this out.”

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Hunley and colleagues make a traffic stop outside a convenience store for someone who allegedly has “been known to sell drugs and whatnot…” The driver (“what did I do?”) appears to resist and is taken to the ground. Bleeping. K9 sniff on the car; K9 alert. Probable cause car search. Drugs allegedly found.

Officer Hunley: “I told you three times: Keep your hands out of your pockets. So when I tell you ‘stop reaching for a knife,’ and you keep reaching for a knife, I’m gonna hit you in the face. That’s just how it is, bro…”

Listen as Tom Rizzo discusses the takedown technique:

Officer Chris Cole recap: “Usually when we talk to people, what happens they like to pretty much say, yes, no, but when that start using those terms as in there shouldn’t be, or I don’t know, there’s more stuff in there. So we’re gonna try to find out more about if he actually knew that was in there, anything like that. So we’re gonna keep the search going and see if we find anything else.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Corporal Scott Hinson and Officer Brett Usey initiate a friendly traffic stop on an allegedly illegal dirt bike with no headlights. Officer Usey: “I don’t want you to get hit out here, man.” The cooperative driver is released with a warning to keep the bike out of the roadway.

Listen to Cpl. Hinson’s recap (“sometimes you got to have a heart”):

  • BOLO segment — Cape May, N.J., “bad eggs.”

Abrams: “That’s a scary-looking Humpty, too. I always think of Humpty as kind of like being, like, friendly looking, et cetera. That’s sort of like…the horror version…”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Officers Michael Siena and Thomas Goble investigate an alleged potential battery. A vocal older female is arrested. Officer Siena: “The female’s gonna be taking a ride for resisting, for deprivation of 911, and then battery on her Lyft driver.”

Listen as the studio panel briefly discusses threats to sue and so forth:

  • Wheeling, W.Va. — While on another call, Officer Zachary Herron conducts a traffic stop after spotting a car allegedly almost striking a motorcycle. Three occupants. The driver, an older male on crutches, says “I just got a surgery…I just cracked my ass bones…” The motorist is ultimately released with a warning to drive more carefully along with an implied admonishment to stop associating with or giving rides to potentially sketchy people.

“I hope your ass bones get better. Do they offer any kind of physical therapy for that?”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Darnell Brown visits an outdoor BBQ vendor who is set up outside a storefront. On Patrol: Live captions: “Just wingin’ it,” “Where is the hot sauce at?” Abrams: “The guy doing the cooking there is someone that we have seen before. Apparently, he’s a local favorite.” Rizzo: “Makes me hungry.
  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — Officer Logan Vitatoe and other cops pursue and then pull over a pickup truck that was allegedly fleeing from the state highway patrol. Speeding allegedly was the original issue that would have likely just resulted in a ticket. After a traffic stop, police break the window on the passenger side and subdue the driver.

Officer Vitatoe recap: “Highway Patrol has him in custody. A possible intoxicated drive. He wasn’t listening to commands. They couldn’t get in the vehicle. It’s still in drive, so had to bust the window out and hit the unlock button so the troopers could get him out, and then throw the truck in park before it hit anybody else. So had good outcome, nobody got hurt, no other motorists, and he’s going to jail tonight.”

Abrams: “Busting those windows isn’t quite as easy as it often seems like on TV, right?” Larkin: “No, absolutely. A car window, a side window, is totally different than a window pane at your house. They’re designed to stay intact for the safety of the people inside. But talking about the tools they’re using there.” Rizzo: “That’s why we’ve started to evolve, and we have these little window punches with a sharp edge to it that makes it a lot easier in the event to do that. Sometimes they would have been forced entry; they’ll end up using some type of irritant, like an OC spray to force the person out. There’s different tactics on how to do it.”

  • Wheeling, W.Va. — Officer Herron and colleagues respond to a report of someone allegedly screaming in a backyard or refusing to leave a porch. They encounter a man who is carrying a mattress. The subject, who is apparently known to police, is arrested for trespassing. “He was told to leave by the property owner, property manager, and he just wouldn’t. It is not unlike him to just camp out places and try to stay there. He’s not allowed to do that; doesn’t have any right to be here.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Deputy Brown and colleagues assists a neighboring agency with a pursuit of an allegedly speeding (150 mph) vehicle.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Cpl. Hinson and Officer Usey make a well-being check on a home with the front door wide open. They make contact with a gracious older female and determine that everything is okay and that the door was left open accidentally. Cpl. Hinson: “Very, very best-case scenario. She was inside watching the football game tonight. Go Tigers. And just forgotten to lock the door, and somehow it flew open. But everything’s perfectly fine.”
  • Wheeling, W.Va. — Officer Herron conducts a traffic stop. The driver denies having any drugs and consents to a car search. “She was observed with multiple people around her vehicle in a high-drug-traffic area, high crime, high drug area. Looks like she even has track marks on her right arm. She said she’s just been to the hospital, so that could be the truth.” The driver is subsequently released with no charges.
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Trevor Guinn initiates a traffic stop on a truck for an unreadable plate. The driver initially denies consent to search the vehicle, but subsequently gives consent instead of waiting for a K9 to arrive. The deputy does not find any contraband, and the driver is released. Deputy Guinn explains to the driver that “travel from Kansas City to Branson, we see it all the time on this highway, a lot of drugs getting pushed up and these highways, so it’s just normal routine for us to do this, okay?” The deputy does not find any contraband (“the truck looks clean”), and the cooperative driver is released. The deputy encourages him to take care of a warrant for an unpaid no-camping ticket pending in another jurisdiction. On the warrant, Deputy Guinn admits that “man, I haven’t heard that one before.”

In the vehicle, Deputy Guinn allegedly finds blowtorches (which he claims people often use to warm up meth pipes) and and a lot of phones. Abrams: “Just trying to stay in touch with different people. That’s not a crime.” When asked about the phones and the torches, the driver explains that he repairs phones and that he is also a glassblower.

Abrams: “So this glass-blowing, cell-phone fixer has to make sure he pitches his tent in the right place.”

  • Clayton County, Ga. (pre-recorded segment) — Lieutenants Joseph Toombs and Christian Stearley, and Sergeant Iesha Johnson interact with a driver parked outside a hotel who refuses to exit the vehicle. Lt. Toombs smashes the passenger window; the driver is subdued. A gun is allegedly found in a car search. The motorist, who allegedly has priors, is arrested. Abrams: “Three times for fleeing and eluding. I guess that would be the definition of a frequent flyer.”

Listen both lieutenants describe the police response at what is described as a “known narcotics location”:

  • Missing segment — Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lieutenant Maher makes a friendly traffic stop. According to Lt. Maher, the affable driver allegedly has a warrant from another jurisdiction on two purported unusual charges: “failing to secure workmans’ comp insurance as an employer” and “state of emergency operating as a contractor without a license or something like that. Stuff we don’t see on a daily basis as cops.”

Abrams: “This is an example of a cop just doing his job because you can tell Lieutenant Richie Maher is, let’s just say, a bit surprised that there is a particular crime that he just defined that may be extraditable.” Rizzo: “From not camping to a violation of the workmen’s comp law.” Abrams: “You never know.”

Abrams update: “The guy with those two weird warrants — he was arrested and taken into custody.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Norton, K9 Specialist Washington, and other units respond to shots-fired report in a wooded residential area. Abrams: “Multiple calls certainly adds credibility to the report.” The fire department is also on scene. Specialist Washington: “Apparently two groups of individuals couldn’t get along, got into some type of argument, gunfire was exchanged, and the suspects left. Unknown direction of travel, unknown description or anything, but I’m gonna help the regional units by going to the backside and making sure that nobody else was struck, no property or no individual.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. — As the On Patrol: Live episode concludes, Cpl. Hinson, Officer Usey, and colleagues respond to a shooting call on the scene where a large group of teens and some adults congregated possibly for a party. One male appears to be detained.
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