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On the football field, he wore jersey No. 23.

In Juneau District Court on Wednesday, former Juneau-Douglas High School football phenom Josh Lehauli's bright orange prison-issued jump suit had no number.

Lehauli was in court for his arraignment on a felony drug charge that, if found guilty, could put him in prison for 10 years and saddle him with a $100,000 fine.

Police said Lehauli had about one ounce of cocaine and a breakfast burrito in a paper bag when he arrived from Seattle on Tuesday at the Juneau International Airport.

Juneau Police Sgt. Dave Campbell said police were acting on a tip that Lehauli had left town illegally. The 20-year-old was prohibited from leaving town stemming from a two-week-old drunken driving charge, according to court records.

Campbell said the street value of one ounce of cocaine is about $4,000 in Juneau.

Lehauli is well known to football and boxing fans in town. He was a star player of the 2005 JDHS state championship team and was named the top defensive player in the state that year.

More recently, Lehauli was attracting attention for his climb up the ranks of the barroom boxing circuit in town.

But the star of the sports section spent much of his time in court Wednesday avoiding having his picture taken by holding a copy of the charges against him in front of his face, or asking his attorney to stand between him and an Empire photographer.

Lehauli's recent legal problems are not the first time he's been inside a courtroom.

His criminal record includes a 2005 reckless endangerment conviction for "door slamming" - deliberately using a car door from a moving vehicle to hit a man into a ditch.

And in 2006, he was convicted of assault for punching a woman in the head, twice.

At Wednesday's court hearing, Assistant District Attorney David Brower said Lehauli's actions made it "clear that he's not willing to follow court orders."

While Magistrate John Sivertsen was discussing terms of his bail, Lehauli was trying to communicate with a friend seated in the courtroom. He stopped when his lawyer waved a hand in front of his face and a bailiff warned his friend to stop talking.

Lehauli's bail was set at $10,000.

The football star's old coach said he wasn't surprised to hear of Lehauli's legal troubles. JDHS head football coach William Chalmers said Lehauli was one of the best players he'd coached but he also lacked discipline.

"He was not an easy person to coach even back then," Chalmers said. "He had a very big ego."

Chalmers said Lehauli had the physical abilities to play at a big-time college program but poor grades probably scared off scouts. He added that he thought Lehauli was "not a bad human being."

"The discipline never came," Chalmers said.