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Last Thursday, I joined hundreds of others at the monument unveiling for Officer Lauren Craven. Since its installation in 2010, the granite memorial outside the police station has had an empty side. Now it bears her name as the first La Mesa Police Department officer lost in the line of duty.
It was an emotional ceremony, one that LMPD leadership hoped to never have. Now the hope is that no new names will get added below Craven’s.
Read the full story below.
Drew Sitton
La Mesa Courier newsletter host
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Officer Lauren Craven, first in La Mesa Police Department to die in line of duty, honored on department monumentÂ
By Drew Sitton • Times of San Diego
Until Craven’s death, the department momunement’s fourth side was blank.
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