LACY LAKEVIEW, Texas (KWTX) - “The ball is in your court. You decide. Because underage. I’m down for whatever,” said a 47-year-old man to whom he believed to be a 15-year-old girl, an arrest warrant affidavit states.

The Lacy Lakeview Police Department arrested Shelby Duane Machac on Sept. 4 and booked him into the McLennan County Jail on an enhanced charge of online solicitation of a minor.

According to the arrest warrant, Machac sent a Facebook message to an undercover detective masquerading as a girl on the social media platform shortly after 7 p.m. on Sept. 3.

Machac asked the “girl” how old she was and the undercover detective replied that she was 15 years old, the warrant states.

“Your (sic) only 15. Wow. Your (sic) well developed for 15,” Machac allegedly told the girl.

Even af

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