Troopers responded to the car wash and identified Sias, who smelled of gasoline and had a black gas can nozzle sticking out of his front jacket pocket, police said. After he was cleared by medical personnel, Sias was arrested and lodged in Wexford County Jail.

Michigan State Police say a man wearing a hunter's orange camouflage jacket went to a Mesick church around 11 a.m. on Jan. 7 and asked to borrow a can of gasoline because "he wanted to burn his house down that he had been working on.

Prior to a house fire in a northern Michigan village Tuesday, a man had stopped by a church and asked for a can of gasoline, police say.