LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A Fayette County Public School employee was arrested on several child porn and drug charges on Monday after a search warrant was conducted on a home on Dec. 2023, according to an arrest citation from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
42-year-old James Asher was arrested after he was found to have possessed 24 files of child sexual abuse material, according to an arrest citation. Additionally, police say that he possessed one file of child sexual abuse material involving a girl over the age of 12.
The citation read that Asher distributed at least one file of the child sexual abuse material using a peer-to-peer network to upload and download an "explicit picture of children."
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Asher was also reportedly found to be in possession of 88.2 grams of suspected marijuana in bagged weight and five marijuana smoking devices that had burnt marijuana residue on them, the citation noted. Both the devices and suspected marijuana were located when a residential search warrant was executed at a home in the 3000 block of Forest Green Drive.
The citation listed that Asher was officially charged with the following:
- Possess Matter Portray Sexual Performance by Minor U/12
- Dist Of Matter Portraying Sex Perf By Minor Under 12 - 1st Off
- Possess Matter Sex Performance By Minor O/12<18 - 1st Off
- Poss of Marijuana
- Drug Paraphernalia-Buy/Possess
