Former Denver cop, ranch hand, joins Pine Bluffs Police Dept.

Cody Quick has had an interesting life so far.

After serving as a machine gunner in the United States Marine Corps, he found himself in downtown Denver working as a police officer.

Then he found himself working as a ranch hand in Chugwater before heading to the Sheridan area.

But he never shook the law enforcement bug.

A few weeks back, Quick took to the streets of Pine Bluffs as the town’s newest police officer where he serves alongside his wife, Amy.

“I was out of law enforcement for little more than a decade,” Quick said. “I was cowboying, shoeing horses. The older I got, the more I missed...