JOHNSON COUNTY, KY. MAN REPORTED MISSING FOR OVER TWO WEEKS — FOUND LIVING IN ABANDONED HOUSE BY POLICE, GETS ARRESTED FOR TREPASSING
JUNE 26, 2026- written by WADE QUEEN
THE MISSING MAN FOUND TO BE AN EXCLUSIVE, RECLUSIVE, SECLUSIVE MAN; OR IN OTHER WORDS… HE IS A SQUATTER: NICHOLAS MICHAEL FULLER, 25, OF VAN LEAR. KENTUCKY.
A Johnson County, Kentucky man who had been reported as missing for more than two weeks has been located and arrested.
Nicholas Michael Fuller, 38, of Van Lear, KY., had been reported as missing after he was last seen on Wednesday, June 10.
On Thursday night, June 25, the Paintsville Police Department responded to a report that someone had been seen entering an abandoned house on Lewis Drive. When officers went to check it out, they found Nicholas Fuller, who reportedly admitted that he had been staying in the house for two weeks.
Nicholas Fuller was arrested by Paintsville Police Department officer Nathan Collins on a charge of:
*CRIMINAL TRESPASS-1ST DEGREE; a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Nicholas Fuller was transported to and lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
