Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson told reporters at a news conference that Couch had complained about the conditions of her jail cell, to which he responded by saying it “is a jail, not a resort”. “I explained to her this is a jail, not a resort”.
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Tarrant County Judge Wayne Salvant advised Tonya Couch at the hearing Friday that she has been charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon.
The judge said if she is released on bond, she would be required to surrender her passport and wear a monitor on her ankle. As her lawyer wants her bail reduced, they have scheduled another hearing for Monday. One woman, here for her husband’s case, said she hadn’t heard of Ethan or Tonya Couch before.
Jalisco St. Prosecutor’s Office Ethan Couch was on the lam before he was caught last month.
Preparations are underway to take back to the USA “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time. He appeared to have dropped off the radar after a video emerged that allegedly showed him at a party where alcohol was consumed. “Couch is confined in a single cell in the county’s newest jail”.
Lawyers for the teen – who was 16 at the time of the crash that killed four people – successfully argued in 2013 he should not go to prison because he suffered from growing up in affluent circumstances.
Ethan Couch remains in custody at an immigration detention center in Mexico City after winning a court reprieve that could lead to a weeks- or even months-long legal process in Mexico.
Tonya Couch was taken to the Tarrant County jail on Thursday after arriving at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on a flight from Los Angeles.
Ethan Couch is still in Mexico; when he returns to the United States depends in large part on whether he decides to contest his deportation.
The mother of a Texas teenager, ridiculed for his “affluenza” defence in the killing of four people while he was driving drunk, did not enter a plea at her arraignment in a Fort Worth court.
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If convicted, the mother faces up to 10 years in prison. Ethan Couch became infamous as the “affluenza teen” after he was sentenced to 10 years probation for the accident, which also seriously injured others.
