WILTON – A car stolen from a parking area at R.S. Osgood & Sons last week was found in Arkansas on Saturday, police Chief Dennis Brown said Monday.

Brown said a suspect believed to be involved with the theft, Dennis Gray, 20, of Winthrop, has not been located. He is considered to be armed and dangerous and in possession of a stolen .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun, Brown said.

Gray apparently stole a truck in Dixfield. When he got to Osgood’s, it was running out of gas and he wrecked the vehicle, Brown said last week. Looking at surveillance camera footage at Osgood & Sons, police saw Gray enter an employee’s car, a green 1999 Monte Carlo. Gray then traveled to Wilton where he attempted to steal two more vehicles as recorded by Key Bank surveillance, Brown said. Police also have information that he tried to break into another vehicle on Main Street, he said.

The Monte Carlo was found abandoned in Arkansas after Maine police entered the vehicle in a national data base, Brown said. Gray is believed to have family ties in Arkansas but has not been found, he added.

A warrant for the theft and other charges was issued last week, he said.

Officer Douglas Geis responded to a report of a suspicious man going through vehicles on March 10 in the parking lot of the Boiler Room and Bradley’s Pizza. The vehicle tag had police heading for Jay when they were called to Osgood’s, he said. The vehicle stolen was the same one they were starting a search for in Jay.

Police also found an extra set of keys that matched an abandoned vehicle in Dixfield. The vehicle was registered to Gray. Police have DNA evidence taken from the truck stolen in Dixfield, he said.

Wilton officer Josh King has assisted in the investigation as well as Dixfield police, he added.