Adrian McVay Shanklin (PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — For the third time, a convicted child molester has been charged with failure to register as a sex offender with law enforcement.
This time, Adrian Feliciano McVay-Shanklin, 34, listed as homeless from Cushing, has also been charged with living in a hotel within 2,000 feet of a Stillwater grade school.
If convicted of both counts, McVay-Shanklin could be imprisoned for 10 years to life, court records show.
McVay-Shanklin has been ordered jailed on $5,000 bond pending a July 6 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing.
McVay-Shanklin “is classified by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections as an aggravated sex offender and is subject to lifetime registration requirements.
“McVay-Shanklin was released from the Payne County Jail on April 20, 2026, and has not registered his address with any jurisdiction as required by law for an aggravated sex offender,” Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Rockford Brown alleged in an affidavit.
When a search warrant was served at his hotel room on May 21, four items with his identification were found, although he was not there, the affidavit alleged.
“McVay-Shanklin was located at an address on 8th Street within Stillwater city limits and taken into custody,” at 2:01 pm that day, the affidavit said.
According to the state Department of Corrections, McVay-Shanklin was convicted on June 9, 2021, of lewd or indecent proposals/acts to a child in Carney in Lincoln County in 2020, and sentenced as a result of an agreement with the prosecution to one year in jail followed by four years of probation; on Sept. 20, 2022, three years of his probation were revoked to prison that he discharged on Jan. 27, 2025.
In Payne County on Oct. 21, 2025, he was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender and given 365 days in jail, with credit for time served, followed by six years of probation, court records show.
Also, in Payne County on July 5, 2022, he was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender and given 180 days in jail followed by four and one-half years of probation, court records show.
