PORTSMOUTH - A local teen who served jail time for selling cocaine from his mother's basement pleaded guilty Monday to an unrelated charge of being a minor transporting alcohol.

Maximillian Melville, 19, appeared in Portsmouth District Court, where he was charged with being under the age of 21 and driving a car containing vodka and wine.

Melville entered the guilty plea, admitting to the March 5 violation-level offense, and Judge Sawako Gardner imposed a $460 fine and a 30-day loss of his driver's license, effective immediately.

Melville was arrested Feb. 23, 2006, on unrelated charges of cocaine possession with intent to distribute, possession of drugs in a motor vehicle and driving with a suspended driver's license.

Police said he sold $70 worth of cocaine to a confidential police informant while on bail and court-ordered to be on good behavior for a domestic assault charge alleging he pushed the teen mother of his son.

During an April 2006 jailhouse interview with the Herald, Melville said he didn't want to turn 19 in jail, was looking forward to a residential drug rehabilitation program and said he hadn't planned to spend his teen years in prison.

"I'd hoped to be graduating high school, getting a landscaping job and working to get a car," he said then. "There are some days you just sit up thinking about what you could be doing."