Two different child molesters are facing felony charges in Island County Superior Court for violating sex offender registration laws, according to court documents.

Prosecutors charged 30-year-old Bryan Parent and 26-year-old Travis McCreless with failure to register as a sex offender.

Both men were arraigned in Island County Superior Court July 22.

Parent is accused of living in an Oak Harbor apartment building last fall without registering with the Island County Sheriff.

McCreless is accused of moving from Island County to Seattle without notifying the sheriff’s office.

Under the state’s sex offender registration laws, a person who is convicted of a sex crime after February 28, 1990, or kidnapping after July 27, 1997, must register with the sheriff’s office in the county he or she resides.

If the sex offender plan to move, he or she must send written notification to the new county within 14 days before moving; register 24 hours after moving; and send written notice within 10 days to the county sheriff where he or she was last registered.

Oak Harbor Police Officer Mel Lolmaugh wrote in his report that Parent had been living at an apartment on SW Glenmont Court. Police discovered he had been living there when they arrested him last October on a warrant after investigating him for an assault, the report states.

Lolmaugh wrote that he spoke to Parent at the apartment. Parent admitted that he did not register, the report states, but claimed that he did not have to. His criminal records, however, contradict this.

Parent was convicted of child molestation in Kitsap County, according to court documents.

A detective claims that Travis McCreless moved from his South Whidbey residence, where he was registered to live, and moved to Seattle without notifying the Island County Sheriff’s Office, or Seattle.

McCreless pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court April 12, 1993, to first-degree child molestation.

In 2002, McCreless registered with the Island County Sheriff’s Office, claiming to live at Pioneer Park Place in Langley. In 2003, King County investigators arrested him on a drug offense, according to court documents. He eventually was sent to prison.

In July of 2004, Detective Sue Quandt with the Island County Sheriff’s Office read through the paperwork on McCreless the Department of Corrections sent her. She discovered that McCreless told Seattle detectives investigating him for the drug case that he had been living in Seattle for three months in 2003, she wrote, which would be a violation of the sex offender registration laws.

Quandt arrested McCreless last fall when he got out of prison on the drug charge and returned to the Island County Sheriff’s Office to again register as a sex offender.

You can reach Jessie Stensland at jstensland@whidbeynewstimes.com or 675-6611.