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

A recap of the September 29, 2023, OPL episode (OPL #02-18) appears below.

About 50 On Patrol: Live cameras go into the field with the law enforcement officers usually from eight or nine different U.S. departments during the ride-along on Friday and Saturday evenings as aired on the Reelz channel. 

An On Patrol: Live recap, including studio host Dan Abrams’ one liners, analysis, and banter with co-host Curtis Wilson and guest analyst of the week Royce James, a Volusia County, Fla., deputy sheriff, and respectively), follows.

[Click here for the OPL #02-17 recap]

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On Patrol: Live Summary for September 30, 2023 (#OPL Episode 02-18)

Abrams notes that “We are not live in Richland County tonight after the death of Deputy Jacob Salrin in a vehicle accident while he was on duty. They’re still investigating that. And, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. — Multiple cops respond to report of a man allegedly brandishing a gun. A subject is detained at gunpoint. Cops also gather information from a complainant who says he was threatened. It turns out that it was not a firearm.

Ofr. Ramek: “I’m assuming it’s one of these. Obviously, it’s got a handle like a firearm. It’s all black. It’s got a trigger. Looks like it’s just gonna be the end tail, like a power washer….you never know until you get here, so I’m glad we did what we did. Luckily we had enough units to get here fast. [Another officer] was able to locate the the subject right away. So we’ll see what else we got. We got other officers out with like the potential victim, the reporting party, talking to them. And I’ll just update my progress about what we located.”

Dep. James: “It looks to be a device, where I’ve used it before, where you’re putting 2x4s into concrete and actually uses a blank to fire the…nail into concrete and fasten that wood to the concrete…it looks like one, sounds like one, but not a weapon.” Dep. Wilson quips “you guys nailed it.”

  • Nye County, Nev. — Deputies detain a man outside a Walmart store for alleged shoplifting. According to Dep. Joe Molinaro, “he had a whole cart of items that he did not pay for. Just walked right past checkout. Luckily, the office that we were sitting in watching the cameras is right here near the exit, so we kind of snuck up behind him and took him in. So we’re gonna see what charges are gonna be pressed against him, but obviously we got, depending on the value of the items, we’re gonna have larceny, most likely petty larceny. And he’s been trespassed from here before — he’ll be getting a trespass charge too…”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops respond to a report of an “intoxicated female” sitting at a table outside a pizza parlor. Well-being check. No ID. The woman tells Ofr. Taylor Carman that she is okay. Carman, who is interacting with the woman very kindly, also warns her about a wardrobe malfunction. While this interaction is going on, a nude woman walks by in the background. Ofr. Carman: “So the female here is obviously a little bit intoxicated. We can’t find her purse. We have no way of identifying her. She says she stays in the hotel over here, but given that we don’t even have a room key, we’re gonna try to get a hold of a relative or boyfriend and maybe they can come and pick her up, and we’ll go from there. If we can’t, we’re probably gonna have to get her evaluated. There’s no way we can leave her out here by herself.” Cops at the scene offer to give her a ride back to her hotel.

Abrams: “Are we not gonna mention the fact that a naked woman just walked right passed here? I mean, are we just gonna ignore it? I guess we should.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Traffic stop on truck for defective equipment and failure to maintain lanes. Cpl. Devante Smith says he smells weed coming from the vehicle. The driver allegedly admits to having a small rolls of weed in the vehicle. Probable cause search. In the course of the search, in addition to alleged cocaine residue, Cpl. Smith finds something that “looks very, very interesting” and “quite disturbing,” which turns out to be “some kind of make-shift sex device like one of those prison devices.” The driver disposes of the weed and is released with a warning.

Abrams: “This is one of those moments where officers are appreciative of the fact that they have gloves.” Wilson: “Yes. No question about that. Should have left a sock on the door — that way they would have known.” Abrams: “I’ve never seen anything quite like that.” James: “…speechless.”

As OPL goes to a commercial break, the show displays the harvest moon in the sky, which prompts Abrams to quip that “that would explain what we’ve been seeing in some of our departments.”

  • Nye County, Nev. — Dep. David Diaz is flagged down for a car accident dispute. The parties are arguing at the scene. One of the drivers insists that “she just rammed my car.” Both cars allegedly were making U-turns when the collision occurred. Dep. Diaz de-escalates the situation. Diaz: “What we’re gathering from this is this is this white Corolla…pulled out from here. The Dodge Ram then had blared the horn, I’m guessing or from what I’m gathering, the Corolla had cut the Ram off. They exchanged few words…the Dodge Ram follows the Corolla, and the Corolla goes to go off to the side of the road, and the Dodge Ram than follows the Corolla off to the side of the road and hits the rear on the Corolla. So that’s basically the scene right now…” Citations issued to the Dodge Ram driver. Diaz gives the case number to each party.
  • Fullerton. Calif. — Cops detain two pedestrians. Caption: “Open container found.” One of the men receives a citation for the open container.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — High-speech pursuit of a car allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop. Car wrecks out, and the driver flees on foot. Deputies subsequently take him into custody. Suspended license. Weed allegedly found.
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Dep. Jake Bissonnette makes traffic stop on a car that allegedly ran a red light. The driver says that they are hungry after spending the entire day at a fitness contest without having anything to eat. Bissonnette: “I respect the honesty.” The passenger, 54, just won a men’s physique competition, and he agrees to flex for the camera. Abrams: “Well, that is impressive.” Driver released with a warning.
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops respond to a possible strong-arm robbery at a dollar store. It turns out that it may have been a domestic, boyfriend-girlfriend incident instead. Officers take a male into custody. Ofr. Carman: “Haven’t gotten on the scene and talked to the victim. But according to him, they had a little argument in Family Dollar. It was in reference to him wanting to get drugs for her, and he refused to get her drugs. He says he just left, but I’m sure officers have more information on the other side of things. But luckily, we got him, and we’re gonna go from there.”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Ofr. Heather Smith and other units go to a residence on a possible domestic and arrest a woman at the scene who allegedly has warrants.
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Another Q&A session for Dep. James.
  • Triple Play segment– Lawrenceville, Ga.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Traffic stop.
  • Fullerton, Calif. (pre-recorded segment) — After a pair of 911 calls including one apparently from a suspect, cops respond to a report of an intruder at a residence and take a woman into custody who was hiding in a closet. Ofr. Joshua Riley: “Kind of a weird one. A female called and said that she was being chase by somebody, and she was unable to tell us where. She attempted to get into another resident’s house by pulling on their slider door and then jumped over another fence. And entered this residence through an open door…the homeowners here just want us to have her removed the property. [Don’t] want to press charges on her trespassing on their property. Right now, she’s gonna be taken to jail for obstructing and resisting arrest, and she’s obviously under the influence, so we’ll go to the station and then do a work-up on that.” Abrams: “That was pretty crazy.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Brandon Ramirez and multiple units respond to a girl fight outside a movie theater. Screaming and heavy bleeping. Caption: “Disturbance still in progress.”

Ramirez: “We pulled up, and the situation escalated very rapidly…there was an altercation between two groups. She was with her small group of her friends, and I guess there was a car driving by with another group of girls that wanted to fight them. We showed up on the scene. We could see big crowds, everybody was running as soon as we turned on our lights and sirens. And as I was approaching, I saw her take off one of her shoes, or pick up a shoe, I didn’t see which. And she actually threw it — I think she was aiming at one of the women, but she ended up hitting one of our officers. So she’s gonna be going for battery LEO, and and we got another juvenile female in the back of the patrol car that was instigating the fight, and she’s gonna be going for disorderly conduct. As you can see, it was a very large disturbance. There was a lot to keep up with. There’s people everywhere — running in every which-way direction. So we identified the two man subjects from that entire crowd. As soon as they were in cuffs, as soon as they were controlled, the rest of the crowed started to disperse. So that’s usually how it works. It’s usually one or two people that are causing the…disturbance. As soon as we identify them, take them into custody, the rest of the followers will start to disperse. So we’re gonna finish up our investigation here, and what we need to do here, and then move forward.”

Abrams: “So obviously in a situation like this, when there’s a lot of ‘mayhem,’ officers have to make choices on where to go. [To James] “You know this area very well, right?” James: “Yeah. It’s a really popular part of Daytona. It’s a movie theater there, a game room, a lot of eateries, things like that. So it’s really popular. Normally, they have a detail officer working down there. I don’t know what’s going on with him. Crazy.” Wilson: “Situations like this, you want to get the situation under control. When you have those agitators, those are the ones you have to quiet and get out of the area. If they don’t leave on a lawful order, you have to arrest them — arrest them and get them out, so that the others don’t continue to agitate and cause a riot.”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Cpl. Smith, Dep. Hunter Rogers, and other units respond to noise complaint at a residence allegedly involving an underage backyard party. Several males detained. At least two guns found. Deputies interact with a parent. Cpl. Smith: “Everybody back here is under the age of 21. Right now, I’m about to run these guns to make sure they’re not stolen.” James: “I was thinking, the parents clearly, they’re allowing the juveniles that have narcotics, and there are multiple guns they’re throwing. This is to be potentially very dangerous, and she needs to be held accountable for that.” Abrams: “People forget, parents often forget, if you allow kids to have a party, or whatever it is, at your house, you are, in the end, potentially responsible.” Wilson: “You got to know who your kids are hanging with. You don’t know this stuff, something like this could actually happen.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Ofr. Matt Grosse and other units conduct a traffic stop at gunpoint after a call involving a gun, a machete, and a [purportedly] Chevy Caprice. Ofr. Grosse: “Upon searching the vehicle, we ended up finding multiple other narcotics that were in there as well the machete was supposedly used in the incident…As of right now, the story is that the gentleman that we have detained supposedly took a long sword-type deal, swung it at the other gentleman, who then took off through the park. We’re trying to locate him now. This happened to be a witness. While speaking to the witness, give me consent to look into his pockets. And we ended up pulling out what looks like crack cocaine — it’s a rock substance — and stated that the gentleman here gave it to him to hide. So we could not find a victim. So at this time, they’re both being charged with narcotics.” Abrams: “This was a little confusing at first as to what was going on, but in the end, there were no charges in connection with the alleged assault, but the second guy really had a number of stories there…” Wilson: “He borrowed those pants; the guy gave him those pants.”

Nye County, Nev. — Traffic stoop for no tail lights. By a total coincidence, Dep. Diaz previously met one of the occupants of the vehicle, a door-to-door salesman who had recently knocked on the door of his house. Diaz: “I’m not sure exactly what they were selling…but that is too funny — small world.”

  • Volusia County, Fla. — Dep. Sarah Peas and other units respond to a car accident involving a red truck. Some of the dialogue is bleeped. Dep. Peas: “Single-vehicle crash…was on the phone. Not paying attention. With the rain, slick roads, this is dangerous, so kids, stay off your phones.” Abrams: “That is definitely an example there of why to stay off your phone.”
  • Missing segment — Charlotte, N.C.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Bradley Taylor and Sgt. Clayton Dillion provide a vehicle assist on the highway for a van with a flat tire. Chief Taylor claims he smells weed and thoroughly questions the driver about whether there is weed in the car which the driver explicitly denies. Taylor: “You just smell in general?” Car search. No weed found apparently. It turns out, however, that the driver’s license was suspended apparently for failing to pay child support. A wrecker is en route to the scene.
  • BOLO segment — Double-murder suspect in the state of Washington.
  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — Traffic stop for erratic driving. The driver denies he his hiding narcotics, but according to Abrams, “his explanation seemed a bit nuts.” Probable cause search. Apart from a little bit of weed in his pocket, deputies determine that the motorist allegedly had drugs in his “nut sack.” Driver is charged with alleged cocaine trafficking. Abrams: “It seems the drugs were the ‘low-hanging fruit’ here.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Officers with a K9 converge outside a residence on a report of a possible burglary. They enter the home and clear the premises. Ofr. Matthew Levin: “[The residents] let us go in and search the house. No one was inside. I don’t know what they heard, but no one was inside the house.”
  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Cops respond to a report of a fight between an Uber driver and an “unruly” passenger. The latter allegedly punched the driver. An older man is detained.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Chief Taylor and colleagues conduct a traffic stop and a related car search. They allegedly find a crack pipe in a pair of pants. An occupant of the car insists that is is “not my pants.” He is subsequently released with no charges.
  • Berkeley County, S. C. — Cpl. Smith and another deputy conduct a traffic stop for allegedly running a red light. The motorist allegedly was smoking a blunt and had open containers in the car. Cpl. Smith directs the woman to crush the weed on the ground and (apparently) pour out the alcohol. She is released with a warning.
  • Hazen, Ark. — Cops respond to a possible fight in a residential neighborhood where a bunch of noisy teens are milling about outside.