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Ex-Rolling Meadows coach convicted

A Geneva cop responding to a report of a suspicious motorist at 3 a.m. June 6, 2009 found Doug Millsaps slumped over and asleep in his car, clutching his cellphone and the keys in the ignition.

Millsaps, a Rolling Meadows High School coach who is credited with turning around the school's football program, also swayed back and forth while performing an eye-tracking test, had bloodshot eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, 11-year Geneva Police Officer George Carbray testified Thursday during a bench trial.

Millsaps, 47, of Bolingbrook, testified that he not was drunk, but acknowledged he had two beers on an empty stomach after a long day of meetings with football coaches, and an argument that night with his girlfriend because he had to work late.

Kane County Judge Bruce Lester didn't believe all of Millsaps' story and convicted him of misdemeanor driving under the influence.

It was the second DUI conviction for Millsaps, who previously resigned as head football coach but remains a physical education teacher at the high school.

Millsaps pleaded guilty to DUI after a May 24, 2004 arrest in Wood Dale.

“We will carefully review the court's ruling and decide what, if any, action to take,” District 214 spokeswoman Venetia Miles said Thursday afternoon.

Millsaps will be sentenced June 27. He could get up to a year in jail.

In his ruling, Lester said Carbray's testimony as a whole was more credible than Millsaps' testimony, and the judge also questioned why Millsaps went to two different bars to get food instead of a fast food joint if he was so hungry.

Lester also was skeptical of Millsaps' story that he was waiting for his girlfriend to return to her Geneva condo because he couldn't specify what unit was hers or provide police with her phone number.

Millsaps testified that a 2005 car accident injured his neck and affected his balance, so he could not take any field sobriety tests. Millsaps also refused a breath test.

Even though Millsaps wasn't driving on the road, he was in physical control of the vehicle, which is one of the criteria for DUI in Illinois.

“It's very clear this man fell asleep (in the car) while the battery panel was on,” Lester said.