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Deviney appears in court, waives speedy trial right
Accused of kidnapping, raping teen girl
Accused kidnapper and rapist
Russell Wayne Deviney appeared
in person in Clatsop County Cir-
cuit Court Friday for a hearing to
waive his right to a speedy trial.
Deviney, 48, of Everett, Wash.,
agreed to waive his right to a trial
within 60 days.
“You are giving up that right
and the investigation will contin-
ue,” Judge Cindee Matyas told
Deviney.
He is accused of kidnapping
and raping a 15-year-old Cali-
fornia girl before leaving the girl
May 11 in Astoria, which police
said was not his intended destina-
tion.
He pleaded not guilty last
month to 12 felony charges:
¿rst-degree kidnapping, two
counts of ¿rst-degree rape, two
counts of ¿rst-degree unlawful
sexual penetration, two counts of
¿rst-degree sodomy, two counts
of using a child in a display of
sexually explicit conduct (pho-
tographing the girl naked) and
Moving the line
State proposes moving tsunami edge inland
By Zane Sparling
EO Media Group
SALEM — A proposed
redrawing of the tsuna-
mi inundation line on the
Oregon Coast increases
the amount of urban land
at risk for massive Àood-
ing by 30 to 40 percent,
according to the state De-
partment of Geology and
Mineral Industries.
Earth Science Informa-
tion Of¿cer Ali Ryan said
the new tsunami bound-
ary will place 28,000
structures on the seaward
side of the line, up from
20,000.
Better technology, bet-
ter maps and better risk as-
sessment are spurring the
adjustment — not a change
in real danger, scientists
say.
In 1995, when the de-
partment ¿rst tried to
model the undersea earth-
quakes that cause destruc-
tive tidal waves, computers
were unable to simulate the
wave after it reached the
shoreline. In their place,
the department relied on
contour maps from the
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three counts of ¿rst-degree sexual
abuse.
Deviney allegedly kidnapped
the girl on May 9 in Sanger, Calif.
He left the girl and his 2004 Nis-
san Pickup at McDonald’s in As-
U.S. Geological Survey in
order to estimate where the
water would stop during a
tsunami. Those maps were
accurate only to the nearest
20, sometimes 40, feet.
But times have changed.
Recently,
the
depart-
ment used LIDAR, a
plane-mounted laser that
can take 500,000 mea-
surements a second, see
through vegetation and
is accurate to the nearest
half inch, in order to create
their own tsunami maps.
In conjunction with bet-
ter simulations, geologists
have created ¿ve possible
tsunami lines — small, me-
dium, large, XL and XXL.
Each size corresponds to a
line drawn on the map of
Oregon’s coast. The bigger
the size, the farther inland
the wave will strike.
Government scientists
use the XXL line, which
encompasses the sort of
massive sea wave that oc-
curs only once or twice
every 10,000 years, when
planning tsunami evacua-
tion routes.
But city planners still
use the 1995 boundary
when searching for build-
ing sites for “essential
structures” — mostly plac-
es like schools, hospitals,
police stations and other
emergency operation cen-
ters.
Oregon bans the con-
struction of new essential
facilities on the western
side of the tsunami inun-
dation line, with excep-
tions and exemptions for
pre-existing buildings.
“If you want to have
no risk, you use the XXL,
because it’s not likely (for
water) to come any higher
than that,” Interim State
Geologist Ian Madin said
in an interview. “But when
you talk about risk, well
the question arises, how
much risk are you willing
to tolerate. (And the XXL
line) in many communi-
ties, is the entire commu-
nity.”
A department adviso-
ry committee selected the
“large” category on Aug.
5, 2013; tsunamis with
enough power to surpass
this ranking occur about
once every 2,475 years. It’s
the same level of strictness
used by Oregon’s building
code for earthquakes, and
scientists say it equates to
about a 2 percent chance
of major damage to struc-
tures — and people — ev-
ery 50 years.
Madin updated the
department’s
governing
board on the proposed line
change during a public
meeting on May 15. He
said it would take at least
a year to get through the
required period for public
comment and input.
“The public dialogue
costs money that the agen-
cy did not have. So that
process stalled,” he said.
“I am trying to reopen that
process, because I think
it’s important.”
M
C O
The Cascadia Earthquake
Hazard Statuatory Tsunami
Inundation Line from the
Oregon Department of Ge-
ology and Mineral Indus-
tries’ Statewide Geohazards
Viewer at http://www.ore-
gongeology.org/hazvu.
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Matyas said. “In the meantime,
you are being held on a bail
amount of $1 million, so you will
likely stay put.”
Deviney’s defense lawyer
James von Boeckmann request-
ed Deviney appear via video link
at the next court hearing. Judge
Matyas allowed the request, but
said he will be brought in person
if jail staff has trouble meeting the
request.
Deviney appeared Friday
wearing a striped jail jumpsuit.
At the next hearing, von
Boeckmann said, he plans to dis-
cuss the progress of the investiga-
tion and other pretrial matters.
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toria two days later. The girl has
since reunited with her family.
Cannon Beach Police and FBI
agents found Deviney May 14 be-
hind a locked gate in a privately
owned wooded area south of Can-
non Beach, after a passer-by re-
ported seeing him and called the
police. A nationwide felony war-
rant had been issued for Devin-
ey’s arrest.
Deviney remains in custody on
$1 million bail.
He is scheduled for a status
hearing Sept. 4 and a ¿nal resolu-
tion conference Dec. 8.
“If things don’t resolve at that
point, we will set a trial,” Judge
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Deviney is
led outside
following
his court
hearing
Friday.
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