PLEASANT GROVE — A man was arrested Wednesday after police say he was driving nearly 140 mph in Utah County while intoxicated.
The 26-year-old man was booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of several traffic violations, including exhibition driving, DUI and reckless driving.
About 1:30 a.m., a Utah Highway Patrol trooper on I-15 spotted a black Infinity traveling "at an extreme rate of speed in the middle lanes" near the Point of the Mountain, according to a police booking affidavit.
The trooper's radar gun gave an initial reading of 124 mph, "but the speed of the vehicle increased to up to 138 mph," the trooper said in the affidavit.
"I observed the vehicle exit the freeway in a reckless manner as it crossed multiple lanes toward the right without use of signal at any point," the affidavit says.
The Infinity eventually pulled into a parking lot in Pleasant Grove near Evermore Lane and was stopped by a second trooper.
The driver, who had a California driver's license, had bloodshot eyes and an odor of alcohol on his breath, the trooper noted. The driver denied he had been drinking but failed several DUI tests and refused both a portable breathalyzer test and for blood to be drawn for a blood-alcohol test, the affidavit says.
A search warrant to obtain a blood sample was still pending at the time of his arrest.
