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

A recap of the May 18, 2024, On Patrol: Live episode (OPL #02-76) appears below.

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On Patrol: Live Summary for May 18, 2024 (#OPL Episode 02-76)

• Daytona Beach, Fla. — Ofr. Robert Mowery and a colleague make contact with a pedestrian who apparently had walking in the middle of the road. The woman is detained. Cops are unable to identify her even with a fingerprint reader. Ofr. Mowery: “So we’re still trying to get her IDed. I can’t run her prints because she’s chewed off the tips of her fingers. They’re all covered in bruises and scabs and blood, so I wouldn’t even be able to get a fingerprint off her. We’re gonna try some other resources to try to get her identified, but right now, we still have nothing.”

• Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Richie Maher conducts a traffic stop at a gas station on an alleged street racer.

• Lee County, Fla. — Dep. Damian Lehmann is on scene where a bicyclist seem asleep in a driveway after possibly falling off the bike and allegedly walking in homeowners’ yards. He makes contact with the subject. Caption: “Report of intoxicated person.” An ambulance is summoned. “What do you use, because you’re sweating a lot…what are you on so I can tell the medics?” The subject is transported to a local hospital.

• Daytona Beach, Fla. — Lt. Maher leaves the above stop to back up Ofr. Thomas Goble at a stop at the same gas station. Guns allegedly found in a car search. OPL host Dan Abrams: “John Curley, you’ve seen a weapon like that before?” Guest analyst Lt. John Curley (ret.): “Not a s sophisticated as that on the pistol side. But as far as the AK without a stock, I personally have not. [The color] even matches the car. So that’s got to count for something, right?”

Ofr. Goble summary: “…there’s a couple of higher-end, nicer-model vehicles in front of us. We kept hearing them rev their engines like they were gonna race. And, of course, as luck would have it, as soon as the light turned green, they both took off. Extremely careless; one of them was burning the tires. So we conducted a traffic stop on both of the vehicles. The vehicle that I attempted to stop as he turned off the main roadway — I watched him throw an item out of the window, and I was able to identify as a clear plastic baggie. Once he stopped, I got him out of the vehicle and detained him for the investigation. He admitted post-Miranda that he threw a baggie of some old tobacco that had a little bit of marijuana in it out the window. Unfortunately for him, marijuana is a misdemeanor that we don’t normally charged for, but throwing it out the window is destruction and tampering of evidence, which is a felony in the state of Florida. Also, you can see here in the probable cause search, so far we’ve located at least two firearms. He was very honest about that and told me pretty much right off the bat that there were two firearms in the vehicle, so he’s being cooperative at the moment, but the careless and reckless driving and discarding items of evidentiary value in the city is just not gonna fly with us. So we’re gonna continue our investigations, make sure there’s nothing else in the vehicle, and then we’ll make the final determination on if he’s gonna be charged.” Ofr. Goble follow-up: “So he’s been informed of the outcome of the investigation. We’re gonna write him some citations, and get him out of here…” Abrams: “So he was carrying that weapon legally, and he’s just gonna get, sounds like, a couple of tickets, [and] he’ll be going on his way.” read more