Howard County Police have located and arrested one of the two previously unaccounted for registered sex offenders in the county, police said.

Bryan Lamont Hawkins, 37, of the 7300 block of Broken Staff Court, in Columbia, was located at a friend's home in Columbia on Thursday morning and arrested without incident, police spokeswoman Mary T. Phelan said.

Hawkins was charged with failure to register and providing false information, police said.

Police are still searching for the second man, Robert Jamie Saiz, 32, of the 8300 block of Montgomery Run Road in Ellicott City, according to Phelan.