Behind the Badge
La Habra Detective reminds residents financial fraud and cybercrimes run high during the holidays.
0Detective Muris Lucarevic has built a reputation for his investigative work that often starts with nothing more than a hunch. Sometimes, it is the tiniest tendril in a mound of paperwork that will turn a small case into a big one. If you ask anyone at the La Habra Police Department about Detective Lucarevic’s work ethic, you will usually hear. Dogged. Focused. Clever. But if you ask him, he’s just a curious guy who likes to catch bad guys and sometimes those bad guys aren’t as obvious as one would think. “I was a victim of a financial crime, someone…
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Meet La Habra’s two newest lateral police officers. Officer David Grkinich and Officer Jonathan Gama represent the newest lateral officers…