Geneva man charged with DUI after police find him passed out in car

GENEVA – A Geneva man was charged with driving under the influence after police found him passed out in his car in front of a shoe store in a parking lot, according to police reports.

Nicholas B. Pappas, 22, of the 1100 block of Ashbury Court, Geneva, was charged Sept. 26 with driving under the influence of intoxicating compounds of alcohol and drugs, the report stated.

Police found shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the parking lot by DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, 702 Commons Drive in the Geneva Commons parking lot, according to the report.

Pappas’s blue 2007 Honda Accord was halfway in a parking space and he had struck another parked car in the lot while attempting to park. Pappas was sitting in the driver’s seat with his head back and eyes closed when police arrived, the report stated.

The officer opened Pappas’s door and attempted to wake him by speaking to him, then by shaking his shoulder, the report stated.

“Pappas was still unresponsive, so I performed a sternum rub. Pappas woke up and began staring at me,” the report stated.

A sternum rub is when an officer or medical technician applies the knuckles of closed fist to the center chest of a person who is not alert and does not respond to verbal stimuli.

“Pappas was confused where he was and why I was speaking with him,” the report stated. “I informed him he was involved in an accident and he began looking around and asked where the accident was.”

Pappas’s face appeared flushed, he admitted to using alcohol and drugs, his eyes were bloodshot, glassy, he appeared drowsy and his speech was slurred, the report stated.

When Pappas got out of the vehicle for field sobriety tests, he swayed and appeared unsteady while walking, the report stated.

Pappas’s court date is scheduled for Oct. 29.