Judge Bondy sentenced Rogers to 93 days in jail.
Mike Martindale / The Detroit News
Novi — Former Detroit Lion Charles Rogers was ordered back to jail today after passing out in a Mexican restaurant Tuesday, apparently from drinking too much.
Novi District Court Judge Robert Bondy today ordered Rogers to serve 93 days in the Oakland County Jail with credit for 17 days served.
The trouble-prone Rogers, 28, was arrested after the restaurant incident on suspicion of failing to fulfill his probation in a Novi 52nd District Sobriety Court program, Novi Deputy Chief Tom Lindberg said.
Rogers was taken into custody Tuesday at an On The Border restaurant on Haggerty Road about 3:15 p.m. after employees were unable to rouse him and were concerned he might have suffered a heart attack, another police source said.
Rogers, who pleaded guilty last year to operating a vehicle while visibly impaired by alcohol, tested positive three times for alcohol and failed to appear once for testing in November.
Sobriety Court is nine months of intensive probation in which defendants must submit to daily or weekly drug and alcohol testing and must undergo group and individual counseling.
Rogers, once a star receiver at Michigan State and a Saginaw native, was the second pick overall by the Lions in the 2003 NFL draft. His NFL career has been sidelined by injuries and substance abuse problems. Rogers was suspended by the NFL for substance abuse in 2005 and released the next year. The team says he must repay two-thirds of a $9.1 million bonus.
On Sept. 16, he was found by the Novi Fire Department slumped over the wheel of his car while the engine was running. Rogersfailed sobriety tests and was arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle while impaired and driving without a valid license.
In another case in March, Rogers was sentenced to jail in a domestic assault involving his girlfriend. In that case, he was offered Sobriety Court instead of jail. Rogers was caught falsifying documents stating that he had attended Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, one of several Sobriety Court conditions, and tested positive for use of alcohol, a violation of the program.