Fulton Oates Jr., 18, of Thompsonville, is a member of the Crips gang

Fulton Oates Jr., 18, of Thompsonville, was spotted riding in car on Breakey Avenue.Police and state troopers have been looking for him since Dec. 18, when they searched his Wood Avenue home in the village and found an M-1 .30-caliber rifle.It had been altered and its stock sawed off and fashioned into a pistol grip. It was loaded with a 25-round magazine.Oates was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and held in police lockup.He is a member of the Crips gang, police say.