Sex offender moves in waterway

A 36-year-old sex offender is residing on a boat at the mouth of the Manatee River and Tampa Bay, according to a May 25 sex offender registry report.

In March 2016, the state registry reported his residence in the Boca del Marina on Manatee River in northwest Bradenton.

Now a transient, the Bradenton man was convicted in 2014 of lewd and lascivious molestation of a 13-year-old in Manatee County.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement registry also lists the following sex offenders in the area:

• A 58-year-old male offender in the 100 block of Ninth Street North in Bradenton Beach.
• A 55-year-old male offender in the 4200 block of the 129th Street West in Cortez.
• A 52-year-old male offender in the 100 block of Crescent Avenue in Anna Maria.