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A Baylor University freshman who allegedly climbed to the top of the McLennan County Courthouse to take a selfie with the statue Themis may win a few style points for imagination back at the dorm but it also landed him in jail Tuesday night.

“He said he wanted to take a picture with Lady Justice,” McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said. “Looks like he did get a little dose of justice himself. He should have been on a date at a movie or studying instead of on top of the courthouse.”

McNamara said deputies arrested Jack Minrod Decker III, 19, a Baylor student from North Carolina, after witnesses saw him climb the fire escape at the back of the courthouse and then slide down the fire escape in front about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Decker was jailed on a Class B criminal trespass of a building charge but apparently got what he wanted, McNamara said. Investigators found a selfie of Decker with Themis, the one-armed statue on top of the courthouse, on Decker’s cellphone, McNamara said.

A maintenance worker leaving the building spotted Decker climbing the fire escape stairs and called police. Waco police and sheriff’s deputies surrounded the building and searched the courthouse with a K-9 patrol because they were unsure at that point if the suspect gained entry to the courthouse, the sheriff said.