On Patrol: Live All-New Episode, Tonight

A recap of the April 18, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode on Reelz, which also streams, e.g., on Peacock, as anchored in the Jersey City, N.J., studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams, along with OPL analysts Tom Rizzo and Sean Larkin, follows below. Guest analyst Lawrence Jones was only in the On Patrol: Live studio for the Friday night episode, and Curtis Wilson has another weekend off from the On Patrol: Live cast.

As #OPNation (i.e., the cohort consisting of the show’s avid followers) is well aware, and for those viewers and/or social media users new to the program, On Patrol Live on Reelz is more or less a reboot or rebrand of Live PD.

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Updates from Friday Night’s Episode

See the video clip below for the following updates:

  • Knox County
  • Toledo
  • Christian County

On Patrol: Live Tonight

This all-new installment of On Patrol: Live on Reelz featured a diversified number of serious and less serious incidents, some of which are still open, and included uninvolved people being temporarily detained during investigations, and several false alarms or quasi false alarms. Separately, an excuse-making or deflecting motorist in a traffic stop seemed to prompt a significant reaction from #OPNation.

In this On Patrol: Live episode guide, see below for details on all 25 law enforcement encounters across 11 On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments on the current roster.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for April 18, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-70)

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  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — In the show open, Lieutenant Richie Maher and other officers respond to a report of an armed robbery arising from a Facebook Marketplace meetup transaction for a PlayStation. See video clip below. Traffic stop on the possible suspect vehicle at gunpoint at an apartment complex. The motorist is an Uber driver, however, rather than the suspect. Dan Abrams: “That explains why the description did not match the driver.” Another motorist is separately detained but then quickly and cordially released after a victim show-up because he isn’t involved either. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating armed robbery.” Investigation ongoing.

Lt. Maher: “So it sounds like he ordered an Uber to go do a job, which is pretty asinine if you ask me. So he’s on foot in this area…”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of Indecent exposure.” Corporal Scott Hinson, with another officer, arrests a female pedestrian. “You can not be exposing yourself in public like that.” The corporal cites Louisiana statute 14.106 as the alleged basis for the arrest.
  • Richland County, S.C. — Sergeant Ethyn Perkins and other deputies serve an alleged domestic violence warrant at a residence and take a male into custody. The subject denies knowing about a warrant. Sgt. Perkins: “…he struck his girlfriend, from my understanding, it was with a golf club. That’s what the warrant stated, so he’s gonna go to jail for those right now…” Drugs allegedly found on the subject. Sgt. Perkins: “It looks like meth to me…it’s a white, crystal rock substance. I’m assuming it’s probably gonna test positive for meth. He’s saying it’s not drugs. We’re gonna go ahead and Mirandize him. And to be honest, I’m a little bit more curious about what this little ring is…” The subject explains that the ring is like a wallet. “So apparently it’s his wallet…that’s insane…”

Deputy Charlotte Moes update: “We can’t do field test anymore, so that’s gonna be submitted into evidence to our drug analysis…I believe he has a DV charge for a warrant for his arrest, and then, I believe, it’s going to be trafficking meth. We’ll get that final charge with the drug analysis when we get it submitted into evidence.

Listen below to the On Patrol: Live studio pane banter euphemistically about the “wallet”:

  • Richland County, S.C. — Corporal TJ Norton tries to clear a gas station lot perhaps from potential loiterers. A motorist on scene asks for assistance because her front passenger door won’t close. On Patrol: Live caption: “Open door policy?” Cpl. Norton: “They got all kinds of mess going on here. We got broken doors; we got people speeding.” He also explains that the cameras are from On Patrol: Live: “It’s not Live PD.” Abrams: “Glad we’re getting some clarity there on OPLive.”
  • Greene County, Mo. — Sergeant Paige Rippee initiates a friendly traffic stop for alleged speeding — 54 mph in a 40-mph zone. The driver admits to a small amount of weed in the vehicle (weed is legal in Missouri). The driver is likely released with a warning.

Listen below to Sgt. Rippee briefly explain the reasoning for the stop:

  • Christian County, Mo . — Deputy Trevor Guinn and another unit make a well-being check at an early 4/20 celebration. The deputies make sure the subject, who apparently felt lightheaded, is okay. Deputy Guinn: “…it’s a big old festival here…hopefully, he can get some food on him, and there’s enough food trucks around here. I think he can get some food. Maybe at the 4/20 event, you might have a little too much 420 and passed out. So he’s up and breathing now, and we’re on our way.”
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Corporal Blake Welborn, with Corporal Damien Collins as backup, makes a traffic stop on a very vocal motorist for a non-visible license plate. Possibly no license and no insurance. According to an Abrams update, however, the driver is released with no charges.
  • Triple Play #1 — A Vanderburg County, Ind., police pursuit of a stolen truck:
  • Volusia County, Fla. — Deputy Jacob Franklin and a colleague conduct a traffic stop outside a convenience store for alleged inoperable tag lights. Open containers allegedly spotted. Driver: “My wife watches Live PD every night.” The studio panel banters about the Live PD/OPL mention. Abrams adds that “We shall see. I think if it’s just those beer cans, he’s gonna be on his way.”

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Lee County, Fla. (pre-recorded segment) — Deputy Joshua Roos and other units initiate a traffic stop on an “elusive” subject who has warrants:

Abrams: “Two things I’m sure of: Number one, that that cop is super excited about the fact that he got this guy. Number two, that [the] subject doesn’t know what the word elusive means…”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher responds to a report of an alleged brother vs. sister carjacking. According to Lt. Maher, the brother called in on the non-emergency line “and said he was here, so we can meet him and talk to him about what happened. But he’s not here. I’m very confused.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Cpl. Norton and other deputies search a residential area for an alleged stabbing suspect. They temporarily detain an individual at a residence but it turns out that he’s not a suspect. In the course of the search outside, the corporal accident steps on some animal droppings.

Cpl. Norton: “It’s a crappy situation.” Abrams: “He avoided it on the way in. Not on the way out.”

  • Lee County, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of burglary in progress.” Deputy Lukas Kontinos and many other units converge on a residence where supposedly guns and machetes were brandished. One deputy on scene using a PA system repeatedly directs those in the house to come out with their hands up. A woman exits and is detained. Other occupants subsequently come out, too. Eventually, police determine that the call seems to be a misunderstanding and/or a false alarm, however. Deputy Kontinos: “No confirmation that any burglary occurred.”

Prior to the situation being resolved, listen below as Tom Rizzo explains the strategy that police typically employ in a situation like this:

Listen below to Deputies Niko Gianopolous and Kontinos recap the incident:

Abrams: “That is an enormous waste of resources for what turned out to be a false alarm. There are a lot of cops there. As it turns out, didn’t need to be.”

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Kaleb Torbet and John Sawicki head to the scene where a suspect is allegedly fighting with an officer arising from an alleged stolen-vehicle call. Detectives Jeff Milum and James Macklin, among other cops, are already on scene outside a residence. Following a foot pursuit, two subjects are in custody; the officer is okay, which prompts another office to joke “don’t see you for a half a year, and you’re getting your ass kicked.”

Listen below to Det. Milum and then Sean Larkin and Tom Rizzo in the studio discuss the incident:

  • Knox County, Tenn. — Officer Dalton Swanger makes a friendly traffic stop on a rainy night for a tag light issue on a car that is a former police cruiser.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officer Torbet and Sawicki respond to a report of a bar fight. Police units that already arrived had scene were unable to locate any potential suspects there. Abrams: “Looks like they dropped lights and sirens there…there still gonna go, but it sounds like they can’t find the person.”
  • Triple Play #3 — a Dayton, Ohio, police pursuit:

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Jonathan Carey initiates a traffic stop. “Why are you driving all aggressive, beeping your horn at this people?” On Patrol: Live caption: “Citation issued for improper use of horn.”

Lt. Carey recap: “She got a ticket…she’s not happy about it, but she’ll be all right. She’s aggressively beeping at this car. You can beep once…you can beep like maybe twice, okay cool, because they cut you off, but don’t just lay on your horn as ya’ll are turning to go on to another road because now you’ve just being aggressive. Now you’re being — doing to much…she wants to go to court? I’ll be there bright and early, with overtime.”

  • Daytona Beach, Fla. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Sister with no brotherly love.” Lt. Maher and colleagues respond to perhaps a disturbance at a residence and politely try to get the male’s side of the story while the latter yells through a closed window rather than opening the door. The man’s sister had purportedly wants him to leave the home. Cops determine that the male apparently lives there, however, thus establishing residency. Lt. Maher: “So this is potentially civil, potentially civil, potentially a mixture thereof, so we just want to dot our ‘Is’ and cross our ‘Ts.'” Cops determine that the male lives there, thus establishing residency.

Listen below to some of Lt. Maher’s interaction with the man:

Lt. Maher to the male: “I’m just asking you to be civil with her and sh*t…you’re not in any trouble…”

  • Berkeley County, S.C. — Lieutenant Paul Yacobozzi makes friendly contact with a homeowner hosting a party on a noise complaint and politely asks him to keep the noise down.
  • Knox County, Tenn. — Responding to a call from the landlord, Deputy Swanger and other units make a well-being check at the tenant’s location with an open door for several days. After checking inside, cops determine that the tenant is not on scene. On Patrol: Live caption: “Possible drug house.”

Officer Swanger preliminary recap: “It seems that this looks like it could possibly be a drug dealer’s house. The door’s been kicked in, a lot of really nice stuff inside, but it looks like it’s been rummaged through and ransacked. That’s about all we got at the moment. So we have X-ray come out and photograph the scene and go from there.”

Listen below to additional information from Officer Swanger as he interacts with the landlord:

  • Richland County, S.C. (pre-recorded segment) — On scene at a motel lobby, Deputy Jacob Wood and other units take into custody a man the manager purportedly described as a “maniac.” Deputy Wood quips that “the real crime is this is a holographic Pokemon card, and you’re not taking care of it.”

Listen below as Deputy Wood and the studio panel discuss this incident:

  • BOLO update (Va.) and new BOLO segment (N.J.):
  • Clayton County, Ga. — In the video clip below, Deputy Louis Rinaldo and other units respond to a report of an active break-in at what appears to be a large, vacant commercial building. The enter the structure and apparently clear it without finding anyone inside, at least during OPL airtime. Abrams: “So far, they haven’t found anything.”
  • Berkeley County, S.C. — As the episode concludes, Lt. Yacobozzi, with backup units, responds in the video below to an alleged disturbance at possibly the same bar as last night and makes contact with two subjects in the parking lot. Bleeping.
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