The so-called “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mother, who were being sought by Texas authorities, have been detained in the Pacific resort town town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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“They had planned to disappear”. He declined to detail the party, including how many people attended.
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Ethan Couch was driving drunk and speeding on a road south of Fort Worth in June 2013 when he crashed into a disabled SUV off to the side, killing four people and injuring several others, including passengers in his pickup truck.
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Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury. If he violates probation, he could face up to 10 years in prison per death, Wilson said.
At his trial, Couch’s attorneys argued he suffered from “affluenza” because he had been coddled by his wealthy parents. The condition is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, and its invocation during the legal proceedings drew ridicule.
A Texas sheriff says that a woman and her son drove a pickup truck to Mexico as they fled his probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck. “And it seems to me, if they wanted to, they could pay them as much money as they want to drag this thing out”, Hunter said.
District Attorney Sharen Wilson has said it “certainly looks like” Couch in the video of the party, but added that without further investigation, the video alone doesn’t prove he violated his probation.
Mexican authorities said they had been working with the US Marshals Service since Saturday to locate Couch and his mother. Authorities were tipped off to their location after they used their phone to order a pizza to their condo, according to a police report issued by the Jalisco state prosecutors’ office.
The police report says that when the two appeared on the street, detectives approached them and asked them their names, and that the Couches showed an “evasive attitude”.
CNN reported he had been taken into custody in Mexico.
Meanwhile, Tonya Couch could end up in jail longer than her son.
A photo released by state prosecutors show Couch with his hands behind his back and shirt open, his hair apparently dyed black and sporting facial hair.
An arrest warrant charging hindering and apprehension will be issued for Tonya Couch, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Tuesday.
Couch was to be extradited and expected to return to the United States later Tuesday.
Anderson said authorities began to zero in on the Couches’ whereabouts Thursday.
If he’s transferred to adult court, he can be sentenced to 120 days in jail as a condition of adult probation, and then would continue the remaining eight years of his probation.
He vaulted up the hate list later that year when a judge sentenced him to 10 years probation instead of 20 years in jail.
At a previously scheduled January 19 court hearing, Wilson had planned to ask a judge to transfer Couch’s case into the adult court system from the juvenile system, putting Couch under stricter supervision and leaving him open to harsher punishment if he violated probation.
His attorneys in the USA said in a statement Wednesday that they couldn’t comment on the case because they weren’t licensed to practice law in Mexico.
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Ricardo Ariel Vera, the representative of Mexico’s immigration institute in the western state of Jalisco, said the mother and son were being held at immigration offices in the state capital, Guadalajara, and would be returned to the United States aboard a commercial flight to Houston sometime Tuesday. “The problem with it was, as you can imagine, Puerto Vallarta at Christmas time, a tremendous amount of tourists down there, so American people were prevalent everywhere, it wouldn’t be somewhere they were going to stick out”, he said.
