(Instituto Nacional de Migración, INM via AP).
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– On or about December 2, 2015 – A video surfaces that shows Ethan Couch at a party where alcohol was being served.
Ethan Couch is back in Texas after being transferred from the custody of Mexican immigration officials.
The attorneys representing “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch have said that they expect he will “comply with all court-imposed terms” and “successfully complete his term of probation”.
Couch’s lawyers may seek to transfer him to the adult system so he can apply for bail, an option not available in the juvenile system, a legal official familiar with the case said. Couch was placed on a commercial flight to Dallas, Texas.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Couch “landed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on an Aeromexico flight, and Tarrant County sheriff’s deputies were expected to escort him to the county’s juvenile detention center in North Fort Worth”. A judge will decide Friday where Couch will be held or if he could be released.
The teen was sentenced to 10 years’ probation and rehab for killing four people in a 2013 drunken driving accident when he was just 16.
The upcoming hearing will determine whether Couch gets freed, stay in the juvie facility or moves into the adult county jail, according to the TV station.
The sheriff says Couch also will undergo a routine medical screening. His mother Tonya Couch faces up to 10 years in prison for helping her son flee to Mexico.
Upon his return to Texas, Ethan Couch will be held in a juvenile detention center.
The advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, commonly known as MADD, earlier this month collected tens of thousands of signatures on a petition demanding that Couch’s case be moved to adult court.
Ethan Couch was returned to the United States Thursday after spending more than a month in Mexico after his arrest on a probation violation, authorities said.
– January 17, 2016 – Ethan Couch’s attorney in Mexico files a document seeking to lift the injunction that has kept him in Mexico.
Couch and his mother Tonya had fled to Puerto Vallarta in mid-December, where they remained on the lam for at least 11 days.
His mother was quickly deported.
During Couch’s trial in the drunken-driving case, a defense expert argued that Couch had been coddled into a sense of irresponsibility by his wealthy parents, a condition the expert called “affluenza”.
It wasn’t long before authorities arrived on their doorstep and took the pair into Mexican custody.
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Tonya Couch has already been deported to the U.S.
