Deatsville couple indicted for financial exploitation

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

The 19th Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office and the Alabama Securities Commission (ASC) announced the indictment and arrest of Chad Lee Svenby, 41, and Amanda Rose Hoff Svenby, 39, of Deatsville.

The couple was arrested earlier this month after an Autauga County Grand Jury returned two separate indictments.

“Amanda and Chad Svenby were charged with conspiracy to commit financial exploitation of an elderly person, financial exploitation of an elderly person, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud,” ASC Director

Joseph Borg said in a release. “Chad Svenby was also charged with securities fraud.”

According to the indictment, Amanda and Chad Svenby conspired with one another to commit financial exploitation and in doing so, breached their fiduciary duty to the victim by abusing a power of attorney (POA).

Through the POA, the couple withdrew large sums of money from investment accounts while representing the withdrawals were for the victim’s benefit. Funds were spent at a casino and for the benefit of the couple.

The conspiracy charges are Class C felonies with a range of punishment from one year and one day to ten years’ incarceration and a $15,000 fine per charge. Financial exploitation and securities fraud are Class B felonies with a range of punishment from two to 20 years’ incarceration and a $30,000 fine per charge. versions of classic Christmas songs with some original tunes as well as some Hawaiian, bluegrass and swing sprinkled into the mix.

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Turner wrote three of the four original songs and arranged five tracks on the 11-song album.

His rich, distinct baritone wraps around each song like a cozy blanket on a snowy morning. Holiday classics including “The First Nowell” (featuring the song’s traditional

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Continued from A1 spelling) and “Silent Night, Holy Night” become even more nostalgic and the originals “King Size Manger,” “What He’s Given Me,” “Soldier’s Gift” and “Mele Kalikimaka My ‘Ohana” adopt the feel of time-honored Christmas traditions. machines though,” Cord said. “They can theoretically have three liters a year, most only have but they can have three.”

Christmas looks a bit different for Turner these days than it did when he was a child. He’s focused on building traditions with his own family, and he’s excited to add his album “King Size Manger” into their Christmas music mix.

Cord said feral cats ideally should be spayed or neutered and returned to the same spot.

“You don’t take them someplace else,” Cord said. “You take them right back to where they know to live, where they know to hide, where their food source is.”

Cord said to best control a feral cat colony a large percentage need to be fixed and returned to the capture site.

“If you don’t spay or neuter about 90 percent of them in short order, the others will go into a reproductive overdrive to fill up the gaps,” Cord said. “You will be right back where you were or worse than where you started. It takes a lot of effort to know what is the population that you are targeting and what is the plan to try to get them taken care of with everyone involved in the property.”

Cord said certain steps must be taken to capture and return feral cats.

“Since most property is owned, you have to be careful,” Cord said. “You can’t trespass.

On your own property or in an area where there is permission to do those things, then great.”

He won’t be the only one. Turner created an album of instant Christmas classics for country music fans who will undoubtedly spin his collection along with the genre’s most beloved holiday tracks. It will be a toe-tapping Merry Christmas, indeed.

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Cord said the released fixed cats would survive.

“They can continue to kill rodent, varmint and other critters and not reproduce, attrit naturally,” Cord said.

Cord said feral cat colonies do not need supplemental food as it could exacerbate the problem.

“Feeding them without fixing them is making the problem 100fold worse,” Cord said. “Then they reproduce even more. You have more litters, more kittens. The problem gets worse very fast.”

Ultimately, Cord said, to control the overall issue with feral cats, pet owners should be getting their animals fixed.

“Spay and neuter is key for both dogs and cats,” Cord said. “It would solve 60 percent of all our intake if we could stop all these unwanted litters. Cats are extremely tough because of the numbers. It’s a challenge.”

Cord said getting animals fixed early is also key. Cord said some will take a small cat or kitten in and not realize how quickly it can reproduce.

“From our perspective, if someone is not going to get it fixed to go ahead, bring it in so we can go ahead and get it fixed and up for adoption,” Cord said. “Otherwise we are dealing with a cat and six kittens. It’s a lot easier to rehome one cat than 10.”

“After a sharp rise in the national average over the last few weeks, we’ve seen an abrupt, yet expected decline as refinery issues have eased in the West and Great Lakes, overpowering some increases elsewhere. Though at the same time, diesel prices have soared,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “We’ll see a continued sharp drop in gas prices on the West Coast, including areas like Las Vegas and Phoenix, which are supplied by refiners in California, as refinery outages have been addressed. The Great Lakes will see prices drift lower as BP’s Whiting refinery is soon to complete maintenance. In addition, oil prices have cooled off slightly after OPEC+’s decision to cut production, and that should slow increases elsewhere. Diesel and heating oil prices are likely to continue to rise as extremely low inventories of middle of the barrel products like these two push prices higher.”

Historical gasoline prices in Alabama and the national average going back ten years:

October 17, 2021: $3.10/g (U.S. Average: $3.30/g)

October 17, 2020: $1.89/g (U.S. Average: $2.16/g)

October 17, 2019: $2.29/g (U.S. Average: $2.67/g)

October 17, 2018: $2.61/g (U.S. Average: $2.86/g)

October 17, 2017: $2.23/g (U.S. Average: $2.45/g)

October 17, 2016: $2.10/g (U.S. Average: $2.23/g)

October 17, 2015: $1.99/g (U.S. Average: $2.26/g)

October 17, 2014: $2.95/g (U.S. Average: $3.13/g)

October 17, 2013: $3.20/g (U.S. Average: $3.35/g)

October 17, 2012: $3.53/g (U.S. Average: $3.75/g)

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