The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving wreck grew up in a wealthy yet unstable household.
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He has been transferred from Puerto Vallarta to a detention facility in Mexico City, Mexican immigration officials said.
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Tonya and Ethan Couch fled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, as prosecutors investigated whether the 18-year-old had violated his probation.
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Since Tonya Couch is back in the USA and in the custody of American law enforcement, it is very likely that she will be back in Texas sooner than her son.
The ruling could lead to a much longer court process if a judge decides Couch has grounds to challenge his deportation based on arguments that kicking him out of Mexico would violate his rights. An additional condition is that Couch must pay her bail in Texas.
But the injunction did not apply to Tonya Couch, who was deported immediately, according to an official with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. She was charged last night with hindering the apprehension of a felon.
Couch is due in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, Kim said. “We do not know if the Mexicans have the highest priority on this case like we do here in America”, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Hunter told reporters Wednesday. A lawyer for Tonya Couch didn’t reply to a request to remark.
In 2013, the teen crashed his pickup into a group of pedestrians in Texas and another vehicle, leaving four dead and several seriously injured.
HO/AFP/Getty Images This Dec. 28, 2015 photo released by Mexico’s Jalisco state prosecutor’s office shows who authorities identify as Ethan Couch, after he was taken into custody in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Couch will sleep on a cot or bunk in a semi-open bedroom shared with two or three other detainees. He pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.
Tonya Couch had her nursing license revoked in 2012 for failing to disclose a reckless driving charge in 2003, according to the Texas Board of Nursing. The sentencing judge said she was not moved by the “affluenza” defense, but nonetheless, she chose to sentence the son of privilege to 10 years of drug- and alcohol-free probation, as well as a stint in a rehabilitation center.
Prosecutors had asked that Couch be sentenced to 20 years in a state juvenile lockup.
Court records show Ethan Couch’s parents underwent an acrimonious divorce that included accusations that his mother was addicted to pain pills and his father was physically and verbally abusive.
Treaties between the USA and Mexico say that Mexican authorities have to respect Couch’s warrant in the US, so unless he files for asylum, he will not be able to stay in Mexico indefinitely, said Aldo Salazar, a Texas attorney also licensed to practice in Mexico.
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Inside the center, which lies in the sprawling working-class district of Iztapalapa in eastern Mexico City, Couch would sleep in a bunk bed in a dorm with likely three or four other people, and use communal washing facilities, the official said. Earlier on Wednesday, Mexican officials told ABC News that she would be put on a flight to Houston Wednesday afternoon.
