A 39-year-old Lovell woman has been charged with making terroristic threats for an unhinged tirade that prompted sheriff’s deputies to barricade part of Main Street during the town’s annual Lovell Days celebration.
Weeks after Destiny Ann Devyak was given probation for a drug-related conviction, she called the Lovell Police Department at about 4 p.m. Thursday asking to talk to a particular officer. Told the officer wasn’t there, she came to the office in person 37 minutes later.
When the officer still wasn’t there, and neither was the police chief, she “stormed out of the PD saying something bad was going to happen,” Officer Cody Clark says in an affidavit of probable cause.
That touched off a series of disturbing calls to other agencies, including one to the police department at 5:09 p.m. saying, “Now I’m gonna take this town down and I want you to kill me suicide by cop, or I’m gonna f*** up this town,” the affidavit says.
Only three minutes later, Devyak reportedly called One Health in Powell, Wyoming, saying that “she was going to come to the Lovell Police Department and shoot all the officers and then herself,” the affidavit continues.
That’s when the LPD locked and secured the front lobby door and called the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office for help locating Devyak, the affidavit says.
“The town of Lovell was holding a community event on the 200 block of East Main Street,” Clark wrote. “Citizens were out on the sidewalks watching the show, which was being performed on the road.
“Deputies responded and tactically parked on the street to barricade the road in case Devyak showed up,” the affidavit says.
Clark wrote that he got a call from Devyak’s probation officer, who said she was at the Super 8 motel in town, but she wasn’t there when police responded.
She was located the next day, Friday, and arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, a felony punishable by up to three years in prison, a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
She had her first court appearance Friday and has been scheduled for a July 7 preliminary hearing.
Devyak is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
She also was ticketed out of Park County with interference with a peace officer.
Failed Drug Test
Devyak’s alleged threats came less than a month after she was sentenced to a year of probation for a drug-related conviction.
That was June 1, and three days later on June 4, she reported to the Lovell Police Department for a drug test, which is required by her terms of probation.
There, she met with Officer Shatel Coleman — the same officer she was demanding to talk to and see on Thursday before she began making threats.
On the day of the drug test, Devyak arrived at about 8:30 a.m. and appeared under the influence of drugs, Coleman wrote in an affidavit of probable cause filed after their interaction.
“I could tell that Devyak had been using illicit drugs by watching her movements in the camera,” Coleman wrote about observing her on surveillance video. “Devyak was picking at her skin and appeared to have uncontrollable arm movements.”
Once inside, she reportedly told Coleman that she couldn’t take a drug test because it would come up “dirty,” the affidavit says.
She told the officer that she had just used meth, but would do a drug test if she could have a glass of water. Devyak was given some water and peed in a cup, which tested presumptive positive for meth and negative for fentanyl.
‘Why Not?’
“Devyak stated the methamphetamine she smoked was some really good shit,” the affidavit says. She also “stated multiple times if she doesn’t go to jail today, she is going to buy some more methamphetamine because at this point, why not?”
Because she drove herself to the police department, Devyak was hit with a DUI charge that’s still pending in Big Horn County Circuit Court.
She also has a lengthy criminal record going back to October 2019, mostly for drug-related offenses.
Devyak was out of jail at the time of Thursday’s alleged incidents because she had been released on a $2,000 bond on June 6, two days after her failed drug test and DUI arrest, court records show.
Greg Johnson can be reached at greg@cowboystatedaily.com.
