Bellmead: Man snared in online child sex sting indicted

James Marvin Fairl, 29, of Waco, who was snared in an online child sex sting run by Bellmead police, was indicted Wednesday for online solicitation of a minor.

McLennan County sheriff’s deputies arrested Fairl on December 27 on a warrant stemming from an investigation that started earlier in the month after a man initiated an online conversation with whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

He was actually communicating with a Bellmead police detective.

The man ultimately messaged that “he wanted to engage in sexual acts with the alleged 14-year-old” and wanted to meet her at a specified location, police said in a press release.

After the man didn’t show up, police obtained an arrest warrant.

Fairl remains in the McLennan County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bond on the solicitation charge.

He’s held without bond on two motions to adjudicate guilt filed in February on charges of sexual assault and endangering a child.