A second defendant was sentenced Monday to 40 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology letter after setting several string booby traps, including one that caught a cyclist in the face, along the Interstate 205 multi-use path.

Raven James Jones, 23, was the primary culprit -- it was her idea to pull the string tight across sections of the path in Southeast Portland, investigators said. A stranger -- cyclist Carlene Ostedgaard, 35 -- rode into the string about 10:30 p.m. Nov. 9, cutting her face in a few places.

An accomplice, Antonio Tolman-Duran, 27, was sentenced last week to 20 hours of community service and one year of probation.

Jones pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Tolman-Duran earlier pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering another person.

Jones and her attorney said Jones had been drinking heavily and that affected her thinking.

“I just really truly feel bad about this,” Jones told Judge Katharine von Ter Stegge. “I never meant to hurt anyone like that bad. I just really feel sorry about it.”

When the judge asked, Jones said she believes she has a problem with alcohol. She said she stopped drinking eight days ago and has been doing better since.

Jones was wearing a kangaroo onesie when she set the booby traps. Police said they caught Jones with a roll of string in the front pouch of the costume and that Jones strung the traps because she wanted to harass the homeless.

Jones told jailers that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, is unemployed and receives food stamps.

As part of her sentence, Jones must be evaluated for an alcohol problem and receive treatment if deemed necessary. She also was sentenced to three years of probation as part of the plea agreement.

Jones’ defense attorney, Ted Occhialino, said Jones had intended to write the apology letter before the sentencing hearing, but she forgot.

At the time of her arrest, booking records list Jones’ name as Justin James Jones. She identifies as female. Jones had no prior history of criminal convictions.

Ostedgaard, the cyclist, wasn’t at the sentencing hearings of either defendant. But Deputy District Attorney Nicole Hermann said Ostedgaard didn’t want Jones to be sent to jail and that instead she wanted Jones to get treatment.

Days after Ostedgaard rode into the string, she told The Oregonian/OregonLive that it felt at first like a bee sting, then she realized it was string that had sliced into her face and left fiber in her eyes.

She had been going to meet her partner for some late night pizza. She took the path near Southeast Division Street and was traveling about 20 mph when she noticed what she thought were kids running up a hill and then sitting on a retaining wall. She suddenly hit the string.

“I was so beside myself,” Ostedgaard recounted several days later. “I just couldn’t believe that someone would choose to do this to any random person passing by.”

She called her partner and then 911. Police arrived and found Tolman-Duran, Jones and a third person, Dakota Murphy. Police also arrested Murphy but prosecutors dropped the charges days later.

-- Aimee Green

agreen@oregonian.com

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