  We report the observation of resistivity saturation in lightly doped ($x\sim
0.10)$ as-grown samples of the electron-doped cuprate La$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$
(LCCO). The saturation occurs at resistivity values roughly consistent with the
phenomenological Mott-Ioffe-Regel criterion once the low effective carrier
density of these materials is included in the analysis. These results imply
that, at least for light doping, the high-temperature metallic phase of these
materials is not necessarily strange and may be understood as simply a
low-density metal.
