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‘Affluenza’ Teen’s Mom Did Not Break Any Texas Laws, Lawyer Says

While her son faces an indefinite stay at the facility in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood, Tonya Couch was flown to Los Angeles on Wednesday and promptly taken into custody by the US Marshals Service.

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The mother of a fugitive Texas teen known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident will likely remain jailed for several days in Los Angeles after being deported from Mexico, investigators said Thursday.


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She will be held at the downtown jail until USA marshals take her to Texas, where she and her son live and where he was on probation for the 2013 crash, Eisenman said.


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The Texas teenager derided for his “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving case won a weeks-long delay in extradition from Mexico, while his mother was in a Los Angeles jail on Thursday after being deported.

On Aug. 10, Tonya Couch sold her 3,964-square-foot house at 1719 Burleson Retta Road in Burleson, deed records show.

Couch and his mother fled the United States earlier this month after a video surfaced online apparently showing Ethan Couch at a party where beer was being consumed.

This led to a manhunt that ended when Mexican authorities caught Ethan and Tonya Couch on Monday night on a street in Puerto Vallarta, a popular beach resort in western Jalisco state.

The official says she was sent home because immigration authorities did not receive a judge’s injunction like the one that temporarily blocked the deportation of her son.

Authorities in Texas said an arrest warrant was being issued for Tonya Couch on charges of hindering an apprehension, a third-degree felony that carries a sentence of two to 10 years in prison.

Ethan Couch’s case would now be topic to immigration proceedings as a result of he entered the nation illegally, however he would finally not have the ability to keep in the nation, stated the Mexican official, who spoke on situation of anonymity.

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. “And it seems to me, if they wanted to, they could pay them as much money as they want to drag this thing out”, Hunter said.

Couch, who was 16 at the time, had a blood-alcohol level almost three times the legal limit for an adult. “This is what they have requested”, Ricardo Vera said. “We’re hopeful that’s not the case”.

A Mexican immigration official with knowledge of the case said Ethan Couch’s attorneys had filed a writ to seek protection and block his deportation to the United States.

Stay… A woman walks past the compound of the Agujas immigration detention centre, where USA fugitive Ethan Couth is being detained in Mexico City.

Following release of photos of her arrival in the USA, many social media users began to compare Tonya Couch’s likeness to a comedian known for his bright red, curly hair.

When Fred and Tonya Couch divorced in 2006, the court ordered psychological evaluations of both parents and Ethan, their only child.

The analysis isn’t acknowledged by the American Psychiatric Association and was extensively ridiculed.

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“Couch continues to make a mockery of the system”, said Fort Worth attorney Bill Berenson, who represented Sergio Molina. Molina was paralyzed and suffered severe brain damage in the crash. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 10 years of probation. A judge sentenced him in juvenile court to 10 years’ probation and a stint in a rehabilitation center.

Tonya Couch is taken by authorities to a waiting car after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport Dec. 31 2015