Eighteen-year-old Ethan Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch, were being held at immigration offices in Guadalajara on Tuesday. Her bond was set at $1 million. “That way bail can not be posted at any other location”.
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A Fort Worth attorney representing Tonya Couch said the fear of prison for her son probably outweighed the fear of a life on the run.
Tonya Couch, the mother of “affluenza teen” fugitive Ethan Couch, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with hindering an apprehension Wednesday.
“What she did was not anything to help herself”, Patten said. They fled there after officers in Tarrant County, Texas, started an investigation into whether or not Ethan violated the probation deal that stored him out of jail after he killed 4 individuals together with his pickup truck in 2013.
“He’ll be there until his appeal is over, which will ultimately end in deportation”, the migration official said, adding that Couch would not be allowed out of the facility.
People walk past a building where Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch stayed in the Pacific …
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson has said he believes Couch and his mother fled to Mexico in late November after a video surfaced that appears to show Couch at a party where people were drinking, which would be a violation of his probation.
The official isn’t saying whether Couch is being transported by air or ground.
Anderson said he doesn’t know what the court filing says or how long it might be before the mom and son are brought to the U.S.
On Wednesday, Tonya Couch arrived at Los Angeles International Airport, where she was escorted by USA marshals while in handcuffs.
The teen remained in a Mexican jail Thursday, awaiting a judge’s ruling there on his request to block his deportation to the United States. He could be held in Mexico for at least two weeks.
The official with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute tells The Associated Press that the teen will be held in the nation’s capital during a judge’s temporary injunction that has delayed his deportation to the U.S.
Richard Hunter, of the U.S. Marshals Service in Texas, said at a news conference that the decision will likely take weeks rather than days, depending on the court’s priorities. It wasn’t immediately clear which attorneys were handling the case in Mexico.
Couch was convicted on four counts of intoxication manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years of drink and drug-free probation, which critics saw as leniency because of his family’s wealth.
Couch and his mother Tonya were caught Monday in Puerto Vallarta. The United States Marshals took her into custody at the airport and she remains in California, awaiting extradition. The agents determined they could be deported. The judge had 72 hours to decide whether to take up the case. She said there was daily name-calling, that he often grabbed her by the hair and that he once “threw her into a fireplace”. The guests wrapped the gun in a bathroom carpet and put it in a plastic bag, the staff said. Couch has been arrested on the felony charge of aiding and abetting a fugitive (her son Ethan) as he was facing a hearing for violating probation.
Anderson said he was not surprised that the pair would seek to drag out their return to Texas.
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“They have achieved every thing that they will to date to keep away from being accountable, or keep away from being delivered to justice”, he stated.
