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Councilman named mayor a year after headline-making DUI

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Layton • A Layton city councilman has been named the city’s mayor a year after his drunken-driving arrest made headlines.

The Standard-Examiner reports Scott Freitag was selected over four other candidates on Tuesday to replace Layton mayor Bob Stevenson, who stepped down to take a county commission seat.

Freitag was fired as the director of Salt Lake City’s 911 dispatch center after the arrest in January 2018. Police say he was driving a city vehicle with an open mixed drink and a gun, and his blood-alcohol content measured .214 percent.

When he was sentenced to three days in jail in March, Freitag said he "made a bad choice," and he'd "taken every effort" to prevent it from happening again with support from Stevenson and others.