GUILDERLAND — Following up on a local tip and a warrant from the Saranac Lake Police Department in the Adirondacks, Guilderland Police arrested a registered sex offender last Friday for failing to notify authorities of an address change.

David M. Lockskin, 21, was taken into custody by Guilderland Police at the St. Peter’s Addiction Recovery Center on Mercycare Lane.

Lockskin was listed with the state’s sex offender registry as living at 159 Glenwood Dr., Saranac Lake, but he did not notify anyone when he entered SPARC in Guilderland. He was arrested without incident and transported to the State Police barracks in Loudonville where he was extradited to the village of Saranac Lake on a felony charge.

Lockskin is listed as a Level 2 sex offender, according to the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Level 3 sex offenders are deemed the most likely to re-offend in the state’s three-level sex offender registration system.

Lockskin was convicted of committing a second-degree sexual act with a 14-year-old female on May 2, 2007. He was arrested by Schenectady Police in the city of Schenectady for performing an oral or anal sex act with a victim under the age of 15, according to DCJS.
Lockskin’s offense description is listed by the DCJS as "actual deviate sexual intercourse" with a non-stranger, and it says that no weapon or force was used during the act.

Lockskin was sentenced to six months in a local jail and to 10 years of probation with the Schenectady County Probation Office. His arrest report says he is 6 feet, 3 inches tall, and that he weighs 210 pounds. Lockskin has a scar on his abdomen and a tattoo on his left forearm, the report says.

First Sergeant Emanual Shulman of the Guilderland Police praised the State Police’s role in the case.
"There was a warrant put out by Saranac Lake"and we had information that he was at SPARC through his probation officer," Shulman told The Enterprise. "The State Police transport team brought him back to Saranac Lake."
Shulman said that State Police save local police stations from having to use their own police cars to extradite people over long distances. It helps ensure that local police cruisers are kept in their jurisdictions and not taken "out of service," he said.
"Kudos to the State Police for doing this," Shulman said. "That doesn’t happen that often"That was very nice of them."