Steve Griffin, Deseret News
Spencer Checketts in the podcasting studio at the Deseret News offices in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Checketts is restarting his career as a podcaster.
SALT LAKE CITY — Early on the morning of Monday, February 26, 2018, Spence Checketts was pulled over by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper. He’d been clocked driving 120 mph on the I-15 freeway in the middle of Salt Lake County. The officer spotted an empty beer can on the floorboard in the back seat, smelled alcohol in the vehicle and noticed during a field sobriety test that Checketts had “relaxed facial features” and a “lack of smooth pursuit in both eyes.