Cheney Free Press -

AIRWAY HEIGHTS – At one point in his life Patrick Carbaugh wanted to escape the hardships of growing up in a troubled home, and the path he chose would ignite a passion for helping troubled youth.

The 37-year-old police officer grew up with a single father in Airway Heights under rough circumstances he said. “My mother had turned to drugs when I was young and passed away when I was 11,” he said, “and we lived in a broken home in poverty, so my sister also turned to drugs.”

Carbaugh said he wanted nothing more than to escape that negativity so he signed up for the marine corps a...