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

A recap of the September 27, 2025, On Patrol: Live episode (#OPL 04-20) on Reelz, anchored in the New York City studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams along with studio analyst Tom Rizzo, and guest analyst Dan Rengering, follows below. 

Officer Rengering is sitting in for On Patrol: Live cast member/co-host Curtis Wilson who is off this weekend.

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On Patrol: Live Tonight

A Captain Danny Brown tutorial plus the unique aspects of separate traffic stops in the featured jurisdictions were among the highlights for #OPNation during this all-new episode of On Patrol: Live on the Reelz channel.

For this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details about all 27 law enforcement incidents across eight On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for September 27, 2025 (#OPL Episode 04-20)

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  • Baton Rouge, La. just prior to air — On Patrol: Live caption: “Officer in need of assistance.” Officer Brett Usey races to the scene where cops had already detained and Mirandized a driver. Bleeping. Many LEOs already there. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Investigation ongoing. Drugs allegedly found. On Patrol: Live host Abrams: “The devil’s lettuce also came up during the Reefer Madness era.”
  • Christian County, Mo. — Corporal Ryan Bradshaw, with Deputy Trevor Guinn as backup, makes a traffic stop for a ripped-in-half and expired temporary tag. Two occupants. “Not my car.” According to Cpl. Bradshaw, driver has shown all the symptoms and mannerisms of methamphetamine use.” The driver declines to consent to a search. Deputy Guinn: “You know how much dope goes up and down this highway? It’s what we do for a living…it doesn’t matter who you are.” K9 deployed. Car search. Abrams update: “Cited the guy for expired tags, but determined there was no drug use, and he was released.”
  • Wheeling, W.Va. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of overdose.” Officer Cory Rager responds to the scene, which appears perhaps to be an abandoned house and/or house getting renovations. Paramedics on scene.

Listen below as Tom Rizzo and Dan Rengering comment when Abrams mentions that OD calls have become common, “but it’s not classic police work either, right?”

Officer Rager recap: “The gentleman apparently had already received 12 doses of Narcan, little handheld squirts. He still wasn’t responsive. FD administered another two milligrams, and then he came to. They’re gonna take him to the hospital. He apparently took some fentanyl. I’m gonna ride out to the hospital, see if he is gonna want any help from our peer support or anything like that, and go from there. Luckily, this one didn’t end badly, but it was very close, it looked like.”

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Nick Harrington and other units serve a warrant at a residence. The subject briefly scuffles with the cops and slams the front door, but he is detained shortly thereafter

Deputy Harrington recap: “We contacted a subject who was believed to live at this address at which point he actively resisted with violence, and deputies placed him in handcuffs to detain him, and also in shackles, given the resistance he put up. So he’ll be going to jail tonight for the…warrants and also battery on LEO, resisting with violence.”

Listen below as the studio panel discusses how police generally handle a failure-to-appear [in court] warrant:

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Usey and a colleague conduct a traffic stop in a driveway. Officer Usey to the driver: “What you got in your ass, man?” Why are you squeezing so hard.” The subject is Mirandized and detained. The driver denies having anything hidden on his person. Officer Usey claims he smells weed. Car search. The cooperative individual is subsequently released. No drugs found. Abrams: “Sometimes a clench is just a clench. There’s no — nothing there.”

Abrams: “What’s the best way to ease that up?” Rengering: “Talk to real nice to them. Maybe whisper in his ear.”

Listen below as Dan Rengering explains that cops receive training in conducting “uncomfortable” body searches and alludes to “the stuff we like about the job and the stuff we don’t like about the job. And really getting up close and personal with people is not my favorite.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Sergeants Chris and James Maher pursues a vehicle that allegedly fled from an attempted traffic stop. Stop sticks successfully deployed. The pursuit by several offices turns into a foot search. Cops end up detaining a suspect. Sgt. James Maher quips that “I came here to save my little brother.”

Sgt. Chris Maher: “This is what happens when you flee in Daytona Beach. You go to jail and get held accountable.”

In reference to the banter on scene between the Mahers, Abrams mentions that: “ah, the issue with having three brothers who serve on the same force there, but stop sticks used there successfully. It’s not always that easy.” Listen as the panel discusses stop sticks:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sergeant Keme Okoya responds to a shoplifting call; the manager provides a description of the suspect and his direction of travel. Security cameras to be reviewed.
  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn and Corporal Bradshaw initiate a traffic stop on a pickup truck. Allegedly mismatched plates, a warrant, and a suspended license. Cpl. Bradshaw: “It’s like the trifecta.” The driver, however, is not the subject. Deputy Guinn: “You pass me with those plates, and all I see is warrants.” The plates are removed.

Deputy Guinn recap: “The plate was really hard to read, and then I run it and comes back to a Chevy. It’s on a Dodge, and then it’s attached to a warrant, and the guy that the plate belongs to is also suspended as well. I thought it would be something good, but I guess his buddy is the one that has the plates. That’s his truck. His buddy just got shot three days ago, as he said, through the back, through the front, and got 56…staples. He’s still breathing, so I guess that’s good. So I’m gonna check his license and get him on his way. He’s doing all right.” Cpl. Bradshaw: “It’s better to not have plates on it at all than to have plates.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Danny Brown and other deputies search a vehicle outside a gas station. Captain Brown, of course, smells weed. Guns found, along some shake and an open container. The driver is subsequently released with no charges. Listen as Captain Brown discusses the stop as well as the potentially dangerous ammo after which Tom Rizzo weighs in:
  • Gainesville, Fla. — #AskTheOtherDan studio Q&A session with Officer Dan Rengering.

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Christian County, S.C. — Cpl. Bradshaw makes a friendly traffic stop on a pickup truck for expired plates. Abrams: “Car’s owner seems to be a fan of Hawk Tua Girl among other things. Interesting assortment of bumper stickers…I’m just gonna let all the bumper stickers speak for themselves.” A “curious” Cpl. Bradshaw jokes with the driver about “this is your daughter’s car, right? Did you happen to look at anything? The wide variety of stickers, mainly the bottom left one…that obviously does not clearly apply, but we go from Bigfoot to Jesus to the middle one. I’m pretty sure we don’t know what that is…” The driver is released with a warning.
  • Christian County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Disabled trailer.” Deputy Guinn looks for and then finds a pickup truck/trailer in a ditch. The driver is not on scene. Deputy Guinn: “This came in as an accident, but also maybe someone possible stealing something. So clearly, I’ve got fresh skid marks on the ground and damage to the grass. So looks like something happened….so clearly, looks like a motor vehicle crash happened. No one’s around, so they just left the scene of an accident as well. The engine compartment’s really warm. I wonder if this just happened. So, we’ll get highway patrol. It’s locked. There’s boots in there.” Abrams: “We’re all sitting here speculating about what might have been, right? Just an accident. Was it a guy who was drunk?…tough to know. “Rengering: “Bad parking job?”
  • Triple Play #3 — Moore, Okla., cops respond to the scene where the driver is asleep behind the wheel.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Searching for fleeing suspect.” Sgt. Chris Maher and other cops pursue a fleeing vehicle which they subsequently find abandoned in a ditch. One Croc spotted at the scene. “It’s a big shoe, too.” Investigation ongoing.

Sgt. Maher summary: “The driver obviously ran out of his Crocs, and they’re pretty big, so we have a perimeter set up. But unfortunately, the officer was not able to identify the driver, so we’re not gonna be able to put a dog out. But…we still have people out checking, doing some research on the tag, see if people that have used it before, people that might living in this area. If he’s running this way, probably doesn’t live far. And that’s pretty much it.” Abrams: “We’ll continue to follow this as they try to find the size, roughly, 16 shoes.”

Listen below to some further information from Sgt. Maher which includes cops using a DNA swab:

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Caruntal Harrell and other cops look for an alleged stolen car and spot it at a Taco Bell drive-thru. The driver initially insists it’s his car, and the vehicle is not stolen. Abrams: “He sounds pretty confident that this is his car, and of course, there could have been something with a plate getting switched or something else as we’ve seen before.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Stop sticks had been deployed just as a precaution apparently in case the driver had tried to flee. Officer Harrell: “So the car is confirmed stolen through BRPD. He stated that it’s his car. He bought it from an auction, and somebody must have switched the plate. We ran the plate, and it does come back stolen through us, and the plate does match the vehicle.” Officer Harrell subsequently adds that “we’re gonna try to contact the owner and see if they want to come out and get that car before we have it towed.” Abrams: “So he’s getting charged with that unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.”

Abrams: “I was about to say his story’s been consistent from moment one, and then there’s a twist.”

  • Christian County, Mo. — Deputy Guinn stops a trucking pulling a trailer that may be connected with the earlier trailer incident. After a quick check, it turns out that the occupants are uninvolved and released.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of stolen credit cards.” Sgt. Okoya detains a bicyclist in connection with this investigation. The man seems irate that he’s getting arrested. “I still don’t understand why am I going to jail. I’m going to jail for somebody else’s stuff…?

Listen below to Sgt. Okoya briefly discuss what’s going on in this encounter:

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Officer Robert Mowery and Sergeant Marcus Booth respond to an alleged disturbance at a shopping plaza “involving a large knife and a lost dog.” Cops make contact with male on scene. Officer Mowery: “The whole reason why you’re roaming around in this parking lot right now is looking for your lost dog?…that’s a big ass knife…”

Officer Mowery recap: “We confirmed most of this story. He’s still up to some shady sh*t. He knows it. We don’t have enough [probable cause] to take him into custody for anything, so we’re gonna do a really good FIC, field interview contact, take some pictures of him. That way, if anything ends up broken into, damaged, cause of something, just any type of crime that’s committed, and somebody comes out matching that description, at least we did our due diligence, and got out with them, and did what we did. We’re gonna keep that knife, and that’s gonna be it.” Abrams: “We don’t know if they actually ended up finding the dog there, but they both went on their way.”

  • Richland County, S.C. — Captain Brown and Master Deputy Justin Jeffcoat thoroughly search a car on a traffic stop outside a convenience store. Drugs allegedly found. “That’s a lot of crack, dude.” Field testing allegedly provides confirmation. Sergeant Bryce Hughes is also on scene. The driver is arrested. The car is towed.

Captain Brown tutorial: Listen below to Captain Brown explain how he goes about a car search, describes what he found in this particular search, and how the weight of a substance can determine the potential charges:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Captain Jason Barrett and Sergeant Iesha Johnson provide backup to Lieutenant Brandon Warren on a traffic stop on the highway possibly for a lights issue. Ticket issued for an alleged open container and warning issue for the headlight.

Listen below to Captain Barrett’s incident summary:

  • Wheeling, W.Va. — Officers Rager and Collin Cooper initiate a traffic stop on a truck. Suspended license. Vehicle search. The truck appears loaded with random items such as, but not limited to, Spam and a cucumber. “It’s got everything in here tonight…it’s a mess…a lot of junk piled up in a truck that doesn’t need to be there..” Abrams: “Always got to have spam if you’re an astronaut.” Rengering: “He might be on his way.” Cops ask the driver to call someone with a valid license to come to the scene.
  • Missing segment — East Liverpool, Ohio.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Luis Sanchez and another unit conduct a traffic stop for alleged speeding. The driver seems reluctant to exit the vehicle; cops escort him out and handcuff him. Abrams: “They pulled him out of the car because they said he was being non-compliant.” Car search. Officer Sanchez arrests for the driver for allegedly resisting; according to the officer, reckless driving is potentially another charge.

“Driver: “I’m a nurse, dude.” Officer Sanchez: “I don’t give a sh*t what you are…you don’t listen to these instructions…”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Sgt. Chris Maher and other units, including his two brothers, respond to the scene where a car struck a pedestrian or a bicyclist. The victim is on the ground but should be okay. Paramedics transport him to the hospital. The car allegedly left the scene. One or more witnesses provide information to cops. Investigation ongoing.

Listen below to Sgt. Maher’s summary thus far:

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Captain Barrett and Sergeant Johnson back up Lieutenant Brandon Warren on a traffic stop for a headlight issue. Alleged odor of weed; weed allegedly found, which the driver is directed to stomp out. A cinnamon item possibly containing THC also allegedly found. Rengering mentions that Gainesville PD confiscates weed for evidence, rather than stomping it out, even when cops don’t anticipate any charges.

Listen below to Captain Barrett’s summary along with a discussion with his colleagues on scene:

  • Baton Rouge, La. — While routinely patrolling, Officer Harrell spots a car in an abandoned car in a ditch. The vehicle possibly may have been involved in an earlier hit and run.
  • Wheeling, W.Va. — As the episode concludes, Officer Rager and a colleague make a traffic stop. The driver apparently declines to give consent to a car search but says there’s nothing in the vehicle.
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