She is held in lieu of a $1 million bail.
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Stephanie Patton, Couch’s attorney, said that she and her client met with the judge behind closed doors after the arraignment. He appeared to have dropped off the radar after a video emerged that allegedly showed him at a party where alcohol was consumed.
According to the Denver Post, Ethan Couch is still being held in Mexico City, awaiting deportation.
Breitbart Texas reported that high-profile Mexican lawyer Fernando Benítez is fighting the teen’s extradition back to the U.S. Benítez filed a petition claiming Couch’s constitutional and civil rights may have been violated, highlighting that the teen’s U.S. crimes should have no bearing on Mexican officials or Mexican courts. Couch is confined in a single cell in the county’s newest jail.
After the proceeding, Sheriff Anderson told a crowd of reporters that Tonya Couch has complained about jail conditions, saying it was too bright to sleep.
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Tonya Couch was “quiet, reserved, respectful” on the ride from DFW to the jail in downtown Fort Worth.
The two were arrested in Mexico late last month. Couch appeared miserable as she answered the judge’s questions about the whereabouts of her passport.
Tonya Couch, who did not enter a plea, can be seen wearing a yellow jumpsuit as a Texas judge asked her to confirm her name and marital status.
Tonya Couch appears at court in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.
He was 16 and driving drunk on June 15, 2013, when he crashed his pickup into a group of people trying to help a stranded motorist along a road in southern Tarrant County.
After the deadly crash, Ethan Couch pleaded guilty in juvenile court to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.
She was returned to Tarrant County on Thursday after being detained in a Los Angeles jail where she was taken after being deported from Mexico.
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