GREEN LAKE TOWNSHIP, MI -- A Northern Michigan man is behind bars after drunkenly pointing an unloaded firearm at family members over the weekend.

Deputies with the Grand Traverse Sheriff's Department were first alerted to the incident around 6:41 p.m. Sunday, April 26.

The caller told police an intoxicated 55-year-old Interlochen man had pointed a rifle at his wife's 39-year-old brother, as well as her 29-year-old son inside a home in Green Lake Township.

Witnesses informed police the suspect pulled the trigger, but the rifle was not loaded at the time. Afterward, the intoxicated man pushed his wife and took the weapon with him as he departed in a pickup truck.

Deputies located the truck abandoned behind the Bendon Eagles' club, just off of US-31, though they were unable to make contact with the suspect.

The following day, deputies from Grand Traverse and Leelanau County Sheriff's departments located the suspect at a construction site in Leelanau County. Police quickly arrested the man and lodged him in the Grand Traverse County Jail.

Officials are sending a report to the prosecutor's office requesting charges of domestic assault, felonious domestic assault, possession of a firearm while intoxicated and driving while on a suspended license.

The identity of the suspect is being withheld pending arraignment.

RJ Wolcott is a reporter for MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. Contact him at 616-970-8881, or by email at rwolcott@mlive.com