ASHCAMP, Ky. — A Pike County man has been arrested after he allegedly went to a campground and moved in to the owner’s camper.

A state trooper was called Wednesday evening to the Elkhorn Riders’ Retreat, at Ashcamp, over a report that a man had broken into a camper, then left on foot.

A short time later, police found the man, identified as Billy Thomas, 45, whose last address was listed as the Veterans Transitional Housing Center on Douglas Parkway.

Police say Thomas used a knife to break into a camper where the campground’s owner stays on the weekend, opened the awning, and was staying in it like he owned it. Residents told police Thomas also took a stack of CDs from the camper and gave them to one of the residents, tried to get into another camper, and sold a resident firewood, but never delivered the wood despite being paid for it.

Thomas was arrested and charged with second-degree burglary, theft, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal mischief and public intoxication. He is currently being held in the Pike County jail.