On Patrol: Live All-New Episode Tonight

A recap of the May 16, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode on Reelz, as anchored in the Jersey City, N.J., studio by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams, along with On Patrol: Live cast members/analysts Tom Rizzo and Sean Larkin, follows below.

This On Patrol: Live recap/update also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction to the law enforcement incidents in the field.

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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.

Updates from Friday Night’s Episode

See the video clip below for updates about the following:

  • Baton Rouge, La.
  • Richland County, S.C.
  • Colton, Calif.
  • Fullerton, Calif. (Chief Jon Radus interview)

On Patrol: Live Tonight

Disturbances, particularly in Toledo, Ohio, dominated this episode of On Patrol: Live tonight although a Clayton County, Ga., drive-thru crash-out was the highlight of this installment of the show for #OPNation.

Note: Clayton County deputies surprisingly did not mention bologna sandwiches during this weekend’s episodes. And with the Christian County Sheriff’s Office on hiatus from #OPLive, there was no talk of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches either. Fullerton PD, however, mentioned peanut-butter sandwiches (no jelly).

See below for details on all 25 law enforcement encounters across nine On Patrol: Live scheduled police departments in this On Patrol: Live episode guide.

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On Patrol: Live Recap for May16, 2026 (#OPL Episode 04-78)

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  • Toledo, Ohio — In the video clip below, Officers Kaleb Torbet and John Sawicki plus multiple cops converge on an apartment on a report of stabbing. They make contact with the victim outside. Police are unable to kick in the apartment door. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating stabbing.” Paramedics summoned to the scene.

Officer Torbet recap: “So we got a call about a person that was stabbed. Evidently this individual went over to his neighbor’s house, and his hand’s cut. He does have a visible laceration from the meat of this thumb, down at the very top of his wrist. It’s a pretty good cut. It’s bleeding — it was bleeding really good. He got the bleeding to stop with good old-fashioned pressure. So, evidently, his fiancée got mad at him and cut him with a knife. So we go to go apprehend her, and make sure nobody else is inside the house, because we don’t know, and he’s not really giving anything on them…he doesn’t want her to get arrested. We try to force entry; the door’s barricaded. She then tries to open up the door. The door’s damaged beyond repair..so she has to go to the back door…then she’s there. They’re detaining her; they’re questioning her right now to figure out what’s going on. He’s probably gonna need stitches, but he’s also a little intoxicated, so he might refuse. But hopefully we get this all resolved quickly. She’s looking at, probably, felonious assault at the most — at the least domestic violence, depending on how he is.”

  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officers Devon Johnson and Christopher Coleman, plus other cops, respond to the scene at a bus stop where a male is allegedly fighting with paramedics. The male denies fighting. The man also says he wants to file charges. Officer on scene: “Against yourself? How is that gonna work?” Another officer on scene to the man: “If you light that cigarette, and you’re drunk like this, you might catch on fire.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” The individual is subsequently uncuffed; Officer Coleman indicates that he “apparently squared up” with medics, but “hadn’t actually made contact with anybody.”

Listen below to Officer Coleman’s recap:

  • Greene County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of explosive device found.” Sergeant Paige Rippee and Deputy Laramey Tillman respond to the scene and make contact with a complainant (who coincidentally used to work for Dolly Parton). As a precaution, the device is later detonated at a police firing range, although the explosion is heard but not visible to #OPLive cameras (Abrams: “…maybe a little anticlimactic…”).

On Patrol: live studio analyst Tom Rizzo’s initial reaction to the call: “…it definitely looks as if it was a pipe bomb. And so you have to make the area safe. You would then can call out the bomb squad. For us, it’s the state police that comes in. It’s very interesting. They’ll actually take the object and take it into a field. And in certain circumstances, detonate it with like a water cannon per se. It’s really neat…”

Dan Abrams: “That’s pretty cool, because you know what? Dolly Parton’s pretty cool.”

Sgt. Rippee preliminary recap: “According to one of my guys, it sounds like the firing device or the wiring over there that was attached to it, it’s been disconnected. So even if something was going to happen with it, it would just burn and not actually explode. One of our volunteer firefighters has said that they got an anonymous phone call saying, ‘hey, here’s this piece of evidence or what I think is a bomb. And here it is. I don’t have anything to do with it.’ And they left it. So this building doesn’t have any cameras, and so we don’t know. We’re gonna call one of our detectives, and see if maybe they’ll come collect it, pull some evidence off it, some fingerprints, and then go from there. But as of right now, seems like it is safe. We’ll kind of keep our distance a little bit, just in case something happens, but weather seems pretty cool, and the firing device is just away from it. So we should be good to go, for now. So we will wait and see.”

Listen below to some additional information from Deputy Tillman:

On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams jokes that “should be good to go, but if we’re not, then there might be a little explosion.” On Patrol: Live studio analyst Tom Rizzo: “Yeah, a little bit.”

Listen below to Sgt. Rippee’s update about the the way authorities will handle the device:

Sgt. Rippee’s further update: “So we are out here in a very remote location away from the general public, in a very open field, and…the Springfield Bomb Squad is out here, along with a couple of our investigators, and we are going to go out here and actually detonate this homemade device that we located. That way, it is destroyed, safe from the public, and while it’s being detonated, we are going to be behind this very sturdy bunker, and we’re gonna get to watch it. I don’t even know if I’m gonna be able to see this because of how short I am…”

  • Colton, Calif. — Officer Evan Vardayou makes contact with a pedestrian: “Why are you screaming over here?” The subject appears to respond that “there’s something’s going up my ass.” The studio panel and #OPNation react to the high gas prices on the nearby signage. Abrams: “Look at those prices. And I mean that in comparison to the rest of the country. That’s California, I guess, for you.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lieutenant Jonathan Carey and other deputies on a traffic stop. An individual who appears to be a passenger allegedly has a warrant. On Patrol: Live caption: “Arrested on outstanding warrant.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. (pre-recorded segment) — In the video clip below, Officer Nathan Pandolfi and other units respond to a report of a man allegedly walking along the highway with a rifle. The suspect is arrested at the home that he ran into.
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Sawicki head to an alleged fight in progress at a motel called the Relax Inn. On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating fight.” Warning issued. Officer Torbet: “So it’s gonna be just a disorder. Everybody got a warning. Everybody’s gonna go home, sober up, and we’re gonna go on to the next thing because they’re gonna get busy.”
  • Clayton County, Ga. — On Patrol: Live caption: “In pursuit.” Deputy Desmond Whitson, Lt. Carey and other deputies including Lt. Joseph Toombs on a highway pursuit. The subject vehicle allegedly ran a red light. The driver approaches a fast-food drive thru and foot bails with the vehicle still rolling. Cops detain him after a brief foot chase. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Car search. On Patrol: Live captions: “Drive thru order not completed,” “Tequila found,” “Sucks to suck!” Police order some bystanders who perhaps know the suspect to get back in their cars.

Lt. Carey to the motorist: “…you’re slow as f—; you can’t run fast at all…can’t drive either.”

Lt. Carey recap: “Got this guy running from Deputy Whitson. I was gonna PIT him. It didn’t make no sense to do it only because he had a flat tire. I knew it was about to end. So he got out, fled on foot. He’s not faster than me. He got caught.” Deputy Rinaldo adds that “this is the suspect right now. He’s in custody right now. It looks like he got tased as well. You see the taser wire all hanging out here.”

Dan Abrams: “So they are searching now in that vehicle but they’re not really in any mood to accommodate him at this point. He’s been asking for a variety of things.” Sean Larkin: “You don’t get much sympathy when you run from the police, put the public in danger, put the officers in danger. You get caught, you got to take it like a big boy.”

Listen below as the #OPL studio panel reacts to the car crash at the drive thru (Abrams: “This is pretty insane how this happened…):

Lt. Toombs summary: “…you end up being stupid like this guy, you’re gonna go to jail tired. He obviously couldn’t drive. He wasn’t gonna out-drive our deputies. So, sucks to be him. He won’t see a judge until probably Tuesday. Sucks to suck. And he’s gonna get a bunch of felon charges put on him…when the think about…the large volume of traffic…right now, this guy clearly didn’t give a crap about anybody else’s safety out here, trying to run for whatever stupid reason he put in his head was worth it. It wasn’t worth it. And now whoever the woman is, who let him use the vehicle that was clearly a rental vehicle, it’s probably gonna be on a no-rental list for probably all the rental companies. This dude is real idiot, and we’re gonna make sure we hold him accountable because his stupidity could have killed somebody. So thankfully we got him, and we have some place for him to be tonight.”

In the Reelz video clip, listen below to Lt. Toombs advise bystanders generally, such as family members, to avoid interfering with police investigations on scene:

On Patrol: Live Hour 2

  • Colton, Calif. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Investigating indecent exposure.” Officer Vardayou makes contact with a female as well several juveniles who were allegedly witnesses to what may have transpired near train tracks. The female is detained. Abrams: “They’re gonna have to sort out whether a crime was committed there, right? Little unclear when you have some child witnesses, but regardless, it sounds like the kids are a little traumatized.” Larkin: “Well, they did the right thing, calling the police regardless. So the officers on scene will get it figured out.” On Patrol: Live caption: “Arrested for lewd conduct in public.”
  • Triple Play #3 — a Sparta, Wisc., slow-speed police pursuit.
  • Baton Rouge, La. — Officer Coleman initiates a traffic stop in an apartment complex parking lot for alleged careless turning and not safely or prudently to paraphrase the officer. He also believes that the motorist allegedly tossed an object over a fence which — after cops canvas the immediate area — purportedly turns out to be a gun. On Patrol: Live captions: “Searching for contraband,” “Gun found.” Officer Coleman indicates that the driver is “gonna be charged with obstruction, for sure, and then we’ll see whatever else we have with this firearm.”
  • Richland County, S.C. — Deputy Jacob Wood makes contact with a male who appears passed out in a parked car. Deputy Wood: “…you’re sitting here drooling…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Asleep at the wheel?” Deputy Wood speaks with the motorist’s girlfriend by phone; she agrees to come to the scene to drive the man home.

Deputy Wood preliminary recap: “So the third-party caller said that he approached the door of one of these houses close and said he can’t drive and he needs help. Does appear to be intoxicated. Being that he told the person that he can’t drive, and he obviously did not drive, just gonna try to see if his girlfriend is gonna come give him a ride. The dude was drooling.”

Listen below to Deputy Wood’s update followed by some #OPL studio commentary (Larkin: “…obviously, the guy, though, is getting a huge break because being behind the wheel of the vehicle potentially you get that actual physical control charge…”):

  • Richland County, S.C. — Master Deputy Colin Davis initiates a friendly traffic stop on a pickup truck for allegedly fishtailing. The apologetic driver is subsequently released with a warning. Deputy Collins preliminary summary: “He apparently got into some sort of fight over at…the vape shop when he was leaving. His knuckles were all bloody from punching the truck because he was upset. I guess he got into a fight; he got punched in the face. Rather than fighting back, he decided to leave, which is probably a good idea rather than escalating things, but then he, when he left the parking lot, he punched it because he was upset. So that’s the only part I saw is why I stopped him. But as long as his license is good, now that he’s calmed down a little bit, we’ll just get him out with a warning.” The driver declines medical attention and filing a report about the altercation. “I was running my mouth…”

Listen below as Deputy Davis further explains the circumstances of that fight that was allegedly the result of the driver’s trash talking:

Abrams: “Not often someone accepts responsibility in that way, right? They’re like, ‘yeah, it’s my fault…I deserved it to some degree’…”

  • Henry County, Va. — Deputy Jasweda Hunt is in pursuit of a vehicle that allegedly fled from a traffic stop. The pursuit is discontinued, however, when the suspect vehicle enters North Carolina.
  • Fullerton, Calif. — Corporal Alexa Elkabbara backs up Corporal Daniel Warner on a friendly traffic stop in connection with a license plate issue. The driver is released with a warning to resolve registration and insurance issues. On scene, Cpl. Elkabbara briefly makes contact with an elderly couple who she apparently has had encounters with previously. “What are you party animals doing over here?…they took…your drugs? They left you with peanut-butter sandwiches?…” Abrams: “Different couples go on different kinds of field trips together. That’s an interesting one. Were they both in jail? It was unclear…”

On Patrol: Live Hour 3

  • BOLO segment — Monroe County, Mich., weed store arsonists a.k.a. pot store pyros:
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Sawicki return to the Relax Inn on another report of a fight. The officers try to calm down a vocal woman on scene who says she was attacked and repeatedly ask her to go inside and stay inside her room. On Patrol: Live caption: “Is beauty rest required?”

Listen below to some of Officer Torbet and Sawicki’s conversation with the woman in an attempt to reason with her:

Officer Torbet summary: “So this is round two out here. Round three is the third strike: She goes to jail. The staff over here have said she’s been nothing but a problem. Said she attacked another patron, but that patron had left. Again, seems to the theme of the night that we have no victim. We have no crime except outside of her being drunk and disorderly. It’s a minor misdemeanor, but with the warning will make it an M4. She can go to jail at that point. We come back out here, and she’s doing this stuff. They’re gonna call; she gonna go straight to jail, because we’re done. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. You go straight to jail. So we’re gonna go to the next thing because we’re going call to call. City’s ‘burning.'”

  • Clayton County, Ga. — Lt. Carey conducts a traffic stop for a potential window tint issue. On Patrol: Live caption: “Lambo in limbo?” Lt. Carey: “His window tint is at two percent. Has to be at 32 percent and above…he said he just got a ticket for it. So I’ll check that out, see if that’s true.” Abrams: “Well, there’s a lesson here, which is, if you’re driving a Lambo, you better have everything up to code, because you are drawing attention to your vehicle.”
  • Henry County, Va. — Deputy Hunt, Sergeant Courtney Neary, and other units respond to a 911 call at a residence, kick open the front door apparently when no one answers, and enter the house. They also interact with male who came out to get his side of the story. Abrams: “The woman said she called. It’s a little unclear as to what was going on.”

Sgt. Neary preliminary recap: “…it’s a family that lives here, and it appears to be some sort of domestic dispute, verbal in nature, and a bit of a melee when our deputies arrived here. They were in the basement, and our deputies were trying to announce and make contact with them, but nobody was coming to the front door. So we did have to force entry into the residence and make contact with them in the basement and separate the parties. So right now, I think they’re just trying to figure out kind of what exactly happened. Sounds like [another deputy] is trying to get a statement from this gentleman in reference to what exactly happened, and it sounds like he was telling him he was detained by his wife. I’m not really sure, but we’ll continue asking questions and go from there.”

Dan Abrams update: “The parties were separated and told to stay away from one another for the night. That was it.”

  • Fullerton, Calif. (earlier this evening) — Cpls. Elkabbara and Warner encounter an unresponsive man laying on the sidewalk in an alley. They administer Narcan for a possible OD. Cpl. Elkabbara explains that Narcan is “a life-saving tool we have. It reverses the effects of opioids only.” Paramedics summoned and arrive on scene.

Listen below as On Patrol: Live analyst Tom Rizzo in the studio explains how cops respond to a call like this:

Listen below to an update on this incident from the corporals on scene:

  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Sawicki respond to a report of a fight between a couple and investigate on scene. Officer Torbet to the female: “Why are you guys doing Wrestlemania out here?” The woman denies that the couple was fighting. Abrams: “This is frustrating, as you can tell, for the officers, because they get a report of her getting beaten up, and she didn’t even want to give them the name of the guy.”
  • Knox County, Tenn. — In the video clips below, Officer Timothy Knight and another unit respond to a roommate dispute and makes contact with a female whom he has apparently interacted with before. “This has kind of been a reoccurring thing…”
  • Toledo, Ohio — Officers Torbet and Sawicki return to the Relax Inn for the third time and make contact with the same female. On Patrol: Live caption: “Back to the motel.” Abrams: “…they said if they got called back there for that woman, she was gonna go to jail.”
  • Fullerton, Calif. — As the episode concludes, Cpl. Elkabbara provides backup on a traffic stop. The two occupants are released.
CLICK ON THIS LINK for the On Patrol: Live recap of #OPL episode 04-77, May 15, 2026.