GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Previous to a home hearth in a northern Michigan village Tuesday, a person had stopped by a church and requested for a can of gasoline, police say.
Simply earlier than 11 a.m. Tuesday, the person had requested a Mesick church for a can of gasoline, saying “he wanted to burn his house down that he had been working on,” Michigan State Police mentioned in a Wednesday launch posted to social media. Mesick is a Wexford County village positioned about 30 miles south of Traverse Metropolis.
The church refused and known as 911.
MSP troopers went in search of the person, who was carrying a hunter’s orange camouflage jacket, however couldn’t discover him.
Just a little over an hour later, first responders had been known as to a home hearth. A witness noticed a person operating out of the house carrying a hunter’s orange camouflage jacket that had caught hearth, MSP mentioned.
There was a home hearth in Mesick Tuesday, police say. (Courtesy Michigan State Police) 
There was a home hearth in Mesick Tuesday, police say. (Courtesy Michigan State Police) 
There was a home hearth in Mesick Tuesday, police say. (Courtesy Michigan State Police)
First responders then obtained a name for a person in a hunter’s orange camouflage jacket who was at a automobile wash and wanted an ambulance, police say. The Mesick automobile wash is only a few blocks away from the home hearth.
The person had a gasoline can nozzle in his entrance jacket pocket when police arrived, MSP says, and he smelled of gasoline.
After he was cleared by medical personnel, he was arrested. Police say he was arraigned Wednesday on a cost of second-degree arson.
