AUBURN — Former youth coach and convicted sex offender Mike Johnson was in further trouble this week when new allegations surfaced, including a claim that he has been operating a stripper business from jail.

The 44-year-old Poland man has been held at the Androscoggin County Jail since January when he was charged with violating conditions set upon his release from prison two months earlier.

This week, probation Officer Mike Simoneau filed a motion charging seven additional violations of those conditions allegedly committed by Johnson before he was jailed last month.

Among them, Johnson is accused of visiting a friend in South Paris to look at nude Polaroids of teenage girls he was accused of molesting decades ago. He is also accused of having telephone conversations and sex chats with a 15-year-old girl from Massachusetts and face-to face contact with a 14-year-old girl in Lewiston.

Since his release from prison in November, Johnson has been forbidden from having contact, direct or indirect, with kids under the age of 18.

According to court documents, Johnson almost immediately violated those prohibitions in several ways. According to Simoneau, upon his release from prison, Johnson began organizing a business called American Beauties, which hires out strippers. He even went so far as to have business cards printed up and distributed at a bookstore in Oxford and other locations, Simoneau said.

By allegedly getting involved in the stripper business, Johnson violated terms of his release in two ways, Simoneau said. Working in a profession that involves women taking clothes off for money is in violation of those conditions. And failing to report employment violates the terms of the Maine Sex Offender Registry, in which Johnson is included.

Simoneau said there were indications that Johnson continued to operate American Beauties while in jail, although details were not provided.

In recent weeks, investigators from the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department conducted at least one warrant search at the home of one of Johnson’s friends and colleagues. According to court documents, it was during one of those searches that police found Polaroid photographs of some of Johnson’s previous victims. Investigators said Johnson had visited the residence to look at the photos.

Simoneau said on Jan. 16, Johnson rode in a car with a woman and her children, ages 8 and 5, also a violation of his release.

He was sentenced in 2004 to eight years in prison but served less than five. If found guilty of the violations, he could be ordered to serve another five years.

In 2003, police charged Johnson with sexually abusing young girls in the 1980s. After that arrest, the charges kept coming.

Police said Johnson prowled Kennedy Park looking for girls between 14 and 16 years old to dance for him and have sex with him.

Johnson plied the girls with alcohol and drugs while convincing them to dance nude for him and have sex for money, police said. The former coach also paid his victims to recruit other teenage girls to do similar work for money, according to court records.

In 2004, Johnson admitted that he raped three teenage girls in the 1980s and sexually abused two others in October 2002 and May 2003.

He also admitted to giving the young girls alcohol and drugs, paying one for sex and distributing pornographic material showing young children engaged in sexual acts.

In total, Johnson pleaded guilty to eight felonies and two misdemeanors, including gross sexual misconduct, dissemination of sexually explicit material, aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs, sexual abuse of a minor and patronizing prostitution of a minor.