Behind the Badge
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Former addict thanks arresting cops three years after ‘you saved my life’
0Lucas Hudson remembers waking up that day three years ago looking for his next fix. Needed it, no matter what it took. “I woke up dope sick in a motel in Costa Mesa,” he recalls. Before he had a chance to hit the streets in his search for a hook-up, there was a call from the front desk saying he needed to settle up on his bill. “I came down in just shorts and a T-shirt,” Hudson recalls. “I was greeted by officers with guns drawn.” The last thing he wanted that day was to be arrested. Like any junkie, he knew the…
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