An Ashland man who is already a registered sex offender has been arrested on more than 100 counts of possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor.

Kentucky State Police say Michael Caudill, 25, is charged with 127 counts of possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor and one count of distribution. Each charge is punishable from one to five years in prison.

Caudill was arrested at his home along Pin Oak Drive Thursday following an undercover Internet Crimes Against Children investigation.

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Detectives with the KSP Electronic Crime Branch say they began the investigation after observing Caudill sharing images of child sexual exploitation online, including images and video of prepubescent children engaged in sexual acts.

Caudill is a registered sex offender.

He was taken to the Boyd County Detention Center and was released after he posted a $100,000 bond.

We went to his home and asked Caudill if he’d like to talk about the accusations against him. He said he had no comment.

Caudill is due back in court Aug. 19.

More than 100 patients were duped by a “dangerous scam artist” who posed as a clinical psychologist, met with patients in his basement and prescribed antidepressants, prosecutors said Friday in announcing his arrest.

Donald Lee-Edwards, 43, pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal impersonation, drug sale, scheme to defraud and other charges.

Prosecutors say the former flight attendant routinely treated patients in a makeshift office in the basement of the Staten Island home he shares with his parents, which was outfitted with treatment rooms, a waiting area and high-tech security equipment.

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Authorities say Lee-Edwards would meet with each patient for about two hours and in some cases called pharmacies to fill prescriptions, avoiding the need for a state-issued prescription pad.

They allege he skirted the state’s electronic database that doctors use to prescribe controlled substances by calling in prescriptions for a common generic antidepressant that isn’t required to be entered into the database by either medical practitioners or pharmacists.

“This so-called ‘doctor’ is a dangerous scam artist who never completed any medical school or doctoral program,” Acting Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Master Jr. said. “He merely bestowed upon himself the professional titles of clinical psychologist and medical doctor; he is neither trained nor licensed to provide any mental health or medical services.”

Defense attorney Matthew Blum said there is no evidence Lee-Edwards ever harmed anyone.

“They’re alleging he was some sort of doctor who was operating on people,” Blum said. “They’re turning this guy into a monster. He was really just trying to help some people in his community.”

He declined to say whether Lee-Edwards had attended medical school.

Detectives began investigating Lee-Edwards in June after patients told authorities that his unorthodox bedside manner made them question whether he was really a doctor. The patients were suspicious because he had discussed other patients and boasted about graduating high school when he was 13 years old and also attending law school, authorities said.

When investigators raided his office, they found medical equipment, dozens of blood vials and a homemade identification card.

Lee-Edwards was being held Friday in lieu of $75,000 bail. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.

Police in Danville are looking for the person who robbed a business with a knife Saturday afternoon. It happened at Cash Express at 1310 Hustonville Road just before 2 p.m.

According to Danville Police, a man went into the store and asked about a loan. He then pulled out a knife and demanded money, before he ran off with cash.

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The robber is described as an older white man with a medium build, about 5’6″ with eye glasses and a thick mustache. He was wearing a blue t-shirt, blue jeans and a baseball hat. He also had “salt and pepper” hair with missing teeth.

If you have any information, call Danville Police.

A former teacher was arrested Friday after allegedly raping a boy at an after-school program he started and ran from 2010 to 2012.

Brandon Kyle Hester, 27, was charged with two counts of rape of a child, two counts of aggravated sexual battery, two counts of aggravated statutory rape and two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure.

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He was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on $150,000 bond.

According to a Clarksville Police Department press release, the incidents took place while Hester was teaching in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System. He worked with CMCSS from 2010 to 2012.

“While he was with CMCSS, he started an after school club for boys to help boys that did not have a father figure, and the victim was part of that club,” says the press release. “Det. Kyle Fleming is the lead investigator for this case. Det. Fleming’s concern is that there could be other victims.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Fleming at 931-648-0656, ext. 5227, or the CrimeStoppers TIPS Hotline at 931-645-TIPS (8477).

According to jail records, Hester now lives in Nashville.

State Police are investigating a deadly crash in Lee County.

A car and an SUV collided this morning along Kentucky 7-08 in Beattyville.

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The coroner says that a man in the car was killed and a woman in the SUV was flown to the hospital.

The victim’s name has not been released.