AUBURN — Former youth coach Michael Johnson was back in jail this week after he was again accused of violating probation.

Johnson, 45, of Poland, was in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Wednesday where he was ordered held without bail pending a hearing in November. He had been released from prison in May after serving 18  months for a previous violation, according to court documents.

The former Little League and youth basketball coach has been in and out of prison since 2004 when he was convicted of raping three teenage girls in the 1980s and sexually abusing two others in 2002 and 2003.

In the latest case, Johnson is accused of failing to avoid contact with people in the adult entertainment business and failing to undergo sex offender treatment.

According to probation officials, Johnson admitted that at the start of August, he went to Walmart with a 22-year-old woman he knew to be a stripper. That woman later told investigators she had hung out with Johnson for a few weeks in July.

He is also accused of associating with another stripper and giving her money. Investigators said at Johnson’s Empire Road home they found an application in which Johnson was seeking photos and information about young Asian women as well as the book “The Art of Seduction.”

After his release from prison in 2009 and then again in May of this year, Johnson was forbidden from being in contact with people under the age of 18. He was also prohibited from associating with strippers.

“Michael Johnson has a long history of recruiting young girls to strip or perform sexual acts for money as well as sexually abusing them,” a court affidavit stated.

Johnson will undergo a mental health evaluation before his next hearing. But probation officials stressed that Johnson has already completed a three-year sex offender program through the prison system. The only way to prevent him from reoffending, according to the affidavit, is to send him back to prison.

At least one of his original victims agreed.

“He is showing us that he is a career criminal,” the 37-year-old woman said on Wednesday. “This has been going on for at least 25 years! How do you fix 25 years of predatory behavior? He needs to be behind bars. I have hopes that our justice system will work.”

In 2003, police charged Johnson with sexually abusing young girls decades earlier. Police said Johnson prowled Kennedy Park in Lewiston, 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.

Police said Johnson 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.

Probation officials have said Johnson has continued to offend in a variety of ways since he was first released from prison in 2009. They include riding in a car with a woman and children 8 and 5 years old, viewing Polaroid pictures of former teenage victims, sending text messages to a 15-year-old girl and continuing to work in the local adult entertainment industry.

As part of the latest rounds of allegations, probation officials said Johnson was terminated from a sex offender treatment program for violating conditions of his contract.

Johnson was returned to the Androscoggin County Jail on Wednesday. His next court appearance was scheduled for Nov. 30.