On Patrol: Live All-New Episode Tonight
On Patrol: Live season 5: A recap of the October 10, 2026, On Patrol: Live episode on Reelz, as anchored in the #OPLive Jersey City, N.J., studio/control center by attorney/executive producer Dan Abrams, along the On Patrol Live cast consisting this weekend of retired LEO Sean “Sticks” Larkin and crime reporter Tom Morris, Jr., plus visiting Fullerton, Calif., PD Chief Jon Radus, follows below. Tom Rizzo has the weekend off.
This On Patrol: Live ride-along recap/update also includes the often-provocative or playful social media reaction on X (formerly Twitter) to the law enforcement incidents in the field.
As #OPNation (i.e., the cohort consisting of the reality 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 First Shift video clip below for the following updates and features:
- Tempe, Ariz. (Petunia the pig)
- Idaho Falls, Idaho (Sgt. Belnap interview)
On Patrol: Live Tonight
See below for details on all 21 law enforcement encounters across eight scheduled police departments on the current roster in this On Patrol: Live episode guide/recap, including a pre-recorded incident from the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office — which this weekend is not on the active roster — and a montage of moments from departing Fullerton, Calif., PD.
Note: The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office did not appear in this episode.
On Patrol: Live continues to hype up the upcoming live Halloween weekend episodes. The show was also live during Halloween night 2025, and while there were some studio attempts at humor with costumes and whatnot, there were only one or two calls in the field that were actually Halloween related.
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On Patrol: Live Recap for Saturday, October 10, 2026 (#OPL Episode 05-24)
- Greene County, Mo. — As the episode opens, Deputy Joe Kruger responds to an accident.
- Toledo, Ohio — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of shots fired.” Police including Officers Hunter Bachman and Logan Hosley and Detective James Macklin detain a man after a brief foot pursuit in a residential neighborhood. They thoroughly search the ground for any potentially tossed firearm.
- Berkeley County, S.C. — Corporal Alex Hernandez (with K9 Hutch in his squad car) tries to catch up to a pursuit apparently after an attempted traffic stop and then backs up other deputies who are scuffling with an animated male who they have detained. Bleeping. On Patrol: Live caption: “Suspect in custody.” Corporal Dylan Lee and Deputy Bradly Brown are among the cops on scene. Vehicle possibly towed.
Cpl. Hernandez preliminary recap: “I don’t know what we have yet but what we do have is one male detained. When we pulled up, he was fighting with them a little bit, so I grabbed Hutch just in case he got a way from them…but once I get more information, I’ll relate it to you, but as of right now, we have failure to stop, but we’re trying to see if there’s more to it.” On Patrol: Live host Dan Abrams: “A little unclear whether this guy was walking his dog and then got into his car and got in a pursuit or he was involved in some kind of pursuit and got out and started walking his dog. But obviously, the officers there concerned that he didn’t stop.”
Cpl. Hernandez additional: “[Another deputy] was trying to make contact with him behind the school. One he lit him up with the blue lights, he ran. Didn’t stop at stop signs, started failing to stop, so as of right now, he is going to jail for that. So we’re gonna wait and see what more they have. We’re speaking with him, but for now, we just have failure to stop…and they’ll probably even tow the vehicle from here…” #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “We’re just getting a bit more information here. Apparently, he was at a school that was closed, and he was, I guess, working out, walking his dog. The school was closed. The officers wanted to talk to him. That’s when I guess he got back in his car. And the officers, at that point, say he didn’t stop.”
- Richland County, S.C. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of man fighting with officers.” Master Deputy Tyler Perry and other units respond to a hospital in response to this call. Deputies subdue a man on scene and carry the subject to a patrol car. Deputy Perry interacts with the man to try bring calm to the situation. #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “So it seems, obviously, this was the person that was causing a ruckus in the hospital.”
- Baton Rouge, La. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of mugging.” Officer Jordan Spencer and colleagues on scene. Officer Spencer preliminary recap: “…he was coming over here to check on his brother, and one thing led to another. It looks like he got jumped on. So he’s got some scraped-up elbows and bleeding down the side of his head. He said they had guns, but we haven’t located any guns yet, so we’ll continue to investigate…”
Officer Spencer update: “So we got one side saying that he came to check on his brother, and they jumped on him or beat him up, and then we have the other side saying that he showed up here, kicked the door in, broke the window, and I’m guessing that’s why they jumped on him. So we got a lot to figure out at the moment, so we’ll keep investigating. Still yet to find any guns…”
Listen below to a further update from Officer Spencer (“Officer on scene here who’s in charge — he’s basically in aggreance that it’s a family thing…we’re thinking more mutual combat…I don’t think anyone’s gonna get any charges tonight…”) followed by reaction from the On Patrol: Live studio panel:
- Berkeley County, S.C. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Report of shooting.” In an incident that consumed much of the #OPLive airtime, Corporal Hernandez and K9 Hutch, along with other deputies, extensively search for a fleeing suspect in a residential neighborhood. The victim was reportedly shot twice in the leg and was transported to a local hospital. On Patrol: Live caption: “K9 searching for suspect.” The suspect vehicle is found abandoned in a ditch. The suspect is still at large. At one point, Cpl. Hernandez seemed to channeling the late pro wrestler Randy “Macho Man” Savage. A second K9 is deployed to try to pick up the scent. #OPLive studio analyst Sean Larkin: “…there’s even times when a dog’s been tracking for a very long time. In the middle of a track because the dog gets tired, starts losing focus, they will actually switch over to another dog from that point and carry on as well.” Guest analyst Chief Jon Radus: “And the handlers get tired too because they’re following those dogs…” The suspect is still at large. Warrants to be sought for two addresses allegedly connected to the suspect vehicle. Investigation ongoing.
Back in the #OPLive studio, Chief Radus discusses in the audio clip below the roles of the K9 handler and the accompanying officers:
#OPLive host Dan Abrams: “It’s fascinating to watch a K9 handler trying to read the signals for his K9.” #OPLive studio analyst Tom Morris, Jr.: “…these are invisible signs that that dog is following that we can’t see or smell, but the dog knows which way that person went…”
Listen below to Cpl. Hernandez’s final update of the evening:
- Idaho Falls, Idaho — Sergeant Stetson Belnap responds to a car accident. Sgt. Belnap summary: “So, the radio traffic was that it was pretty smashed up, and nobody had gotten out, so sounded a little more severe that it was. More like a little fender bender, so we don’t need everybody here, and we can get out of here and go find something else.”
On Patrol: Live Hour 2
- Triple Play #3 — a Moses Lake, Wash., police pursuit where a “caravan was chasing a Caravan.” #OPLive host Dan Abrams introduces the segment by quipping that “officers…responded to multiple reports of a woman driving recklessly, and those reports turned out to be pretty accurate.”
- Fullerton, Calif. — a farewell montage of Fullerton PD moments from past On Patrol: Live episodes.
- Richland County, S.C. — In the video clip below, Corporal Avery Arrington and other units, plus the fire department, respond to a rollover car accident on the highway. #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “So good news there was that everyone ended up being okay.”
- Idaho Falls, Idaho — On Patrol: Live caption: “Open container in public.” Sgt. Belnap makes contact with a loquacious male in a motel parking lot. “…I am drunk, and I’m old now…I have four college degrees…” Heavy bleeping. The sergeant dumps out the container and asks the subject to return to his room.
- Greene County, Mo. — On Patrol: Live caption: “Tracking vehicle.” Sergeant Carl Scharpf initiates a low-key traffic stop on a Corvette for alleged speeding. “…if you find a ticket in the mail, don’t be surprised. But drive safe tonight. There’s a lot of dumb people out there, and you got a nice car, so don’t ruin it. And doing stuff like that is how this gets shut down…”
Sgt. Sharpf recap: “This is a busy night on Kearney. Lots of cars going fast. At least he was doing it in a non-populated spot. Nobody out on our sidewalks. I’m not gonna spend 15 minutes on the side of the road to write him a ticket. I’m going to write him and mail it to him. But we have all sorts of cars out here, and that’s how this gets shut down as people doing dumb things and hurting somebody else. So we’re not gonna spend time here. We’re gonna go out and for for more people being dumb.”
- Baton Rouge, La. — On a traffic stop, Corporals Jermaine Javius and Terrance Smith attempt to identify one of the occupants. Much later, as the episode concludes, police apparently finally identify the passenger (scroll down for the video clip at the end of this post). #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “Well, they’re still there. It’s the passenger of the vehicle It’s a woman who apparently gave them a fake ID.” Cpl. Javius: “…apparently, she’s a mastermind…she can remember somebody’s Social, date of birth, and everything like that…she does have two active warrants…” On Patrol: Live caption: “Passenger identified.”
- Idaho Falls, Idaho — Officer Braden Bestor cleverly makes nonchalant contact with the occupants of a vehicle that has a flat tire. The couple say they don’t need any help to change the tire. Officer Bestor, however, recognizes the male who allegedly has felony warrants. “He’s a fighter, runner…everything in between.” Rather than attempting a one-on-one confrontation, he drives around the block but calls for backup while keeping the scene under observation. Multiple cops, including Officer Bestor and K9 Rip, subsequently converge on the subject and detain him. On Patrol: Live captions: “Suspect in custody,” “K9 alerted.” Vehicle search. #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “He didn’t have his toy for K9 Rip.” In the absence of the toy, which is back in the patrol car down the street, Officer Bestor tries to “trick” Rip with his glove as a substitute toy, but that doesn’t work too well, and he accidentally gets bitten slightly. “It’s superficial.” According to Abrams, “Meantime, they found some meth in the car as well.”
Listen below as Chief Radus comments on the “smart” police strategy in this incident:
Listen below as the On Patrol: Live studio panel, primarily Dan Abrams and Sean Larkin, further discuss the effective tactics used in this arrest: Abrams: “It takes a little bit of kind of wherewithal to be able at that moment…you see the guy, you recognize the guy, to be able to take that deep breath…the officer…takes a step back and gets back in his car…”
#OPLive host Dan Abrams: “He didn’t have his toy for K9 Rip.” In the absence of the toy, which is back in the patrol car down the street, Officer Bestor tries to “trick” Rip with his glove as a substitute toy; that doesn’t work too well, and he accidentally gets bitten slightly. “It’s superficial.”
- Greene County, Mo. — Sgt. Scharpf patrols the Cruising Kearney classic car event as alluded to above. Sgt. Sharpf: “…when it’s daylight out, you get classics like these just cruising. So people come out with their lawn chairs, their families, and watch the cars. As it gets darker out, you get more shenanigans going on that we try to prevent…they do all sorts of silly things…but as you can hear from now, it’s just constant shenanigans, so that’s why we’re not spending time writing a whole bunch of tickets when there’s more people we can write tickets to…just burnouts everywhere.”
- Dorchester County, S.C. — In the video clip below, Corporal Barry Lowe and other deputies conduct a car stop at gunpoint. #OPLive host Dan Abrams introduces the segment by quipping that “a driver who would not pull over during a traffic stop and turned out to have a ‘mother’ of an excuse.'”
#OPLive host Dan Abrams: “The driver was charged with failure to stop for blue lights and sirens.”
- Missing segment — Katy, Texas.
- Tempe, Ariz. — Officer Mike Stevens and other cops respond to a call where a man allegedly urinated on a bus and won’t leave the bus. Cops make contact with bus employees about what might have allegedly happened and escort the subject off the bus. Paramedics summoned to the scene.
Officer Stevens preliminary recap: “So right now, we just have — the bus folks just want him removed off of the bus. Nothing real criminal. Like he did urinate on the bus. There was another customer on the bus that possibly saw a body part that they weren’t supposed to see. They left. So right now, we don’t really have a victim…they just would like him removed. It sounds like we’re gonna try to get him some medical attention. He can’t answer any basic questions: what day of the week it is, where he lives, his name. So we’re gonna have the fire department come out, check him out for right now.”
Officer Stevens update: “So we don’t think he made it to the bathroom. He went in his pants, unfortunately. But it looks like he may have went on the bus as well in his pants. The fire department did call an ambulance. They’re gonna go ahead and transport him to the local hospital here, get him checked out. Sounds like his vitals are fine, but he just can’t answer any kind of basic questions….he’s pretty far from where he should be living. So right now, looks like they’re gonna go ahead and transport him and get him out of here.”
- Idaho Falls, Idaho — Sgt. Belnap conducts a cordial traffic stop. Suspended license. Sgt. Belnap is agreeable to letting a friend of the driver with a valid license come to the scene to pick up the car. Citation issued.
- Greene County, Mo. — Presumably in connection with the same Cruising Kearney event, Sgt. Scharpf patrols for potential drag racers as a long procession of vehicles is underway (see clip below under Tempe). On Patrol: Live caption: “Searching for drag racers.”
Sgt. Scharpf describes the scene for #OPNation: “Coming up to a known drag race area. It’s pretty common after people leave Cruising Kearney, the more rambunctious crowd will go to a couple of spots within the county and city and line up for drag races, and it seems to be that we are already getting situated here. So we’re gonna make our presence very well known. And they’re already all gathered, waiting for the show.”
- Tempe, Ariz. — While on bike patrol, Sergeant Andres Molina makes friendly contact with a man with whom he is acquainted and who is possibly homeless and gives him a pep talk. #OPLive host Dan Abrams: “Some community policing right there.” Sgt. Molina: “Like I tell everybody, I’ve been doing this job for 15 years. I’d like to see you guys succeed. We don’t get enjoyment over arresting the same person over again…”
- Tempe, Ariz. — On Patrol: Live captions: “Report of theft,” “Searching for theft suspect.” In the video clips below, Sgt. Molina and other bike patrol units respond to the scene to investigate and then search for an individual who allegedly stole a pizza parlor tip jar. The suspect is at large.
- BOLO segment — Santa Clara County, Calif., burglars.
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