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‘Affluenza’ Teen’s Mom, Tonya Couch, Charged With ‘Hindering an Apprehension’
An official in Mexico says a teen fugitive from Texas known for using an “affluenza” defense has been granted a three-day delay in deportation.
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US officials said earlier Wednesday that the deportation of Ethan and Tonya Couch could take months.
Both were taken into custody on Monday after a phone call for a pizza led to their capture in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
The son, who had been held with her at a migration facility in Jalisco’s capital, Guadalajara, was transferred to Mexico City in a van that arrived early Thursday.
The U.S. Marshals Service says a Mexican judge granted an injunction blocking Couch’s immediate deportation, the Associated Press reports.
Texas prosecutors believe the mother and son fled the state in late November, after a video surfaced that appears to show Ethan Couch at a party where people were drinking.
Ethan Couch was picked up in a van and taken away from the immigration facility Wednesday afternoon. Facing charges as an adult, Couch could see up to 120 days in an adult jail and 10 years’ probation. Texas prosecutors have said that Couch will be charged for assisting her son’s flight from authorities, and CNN reports that she could face between 2 and 10 years in prison.
A resident pointing a building where Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch stayed in the Pacific beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico December 30, 2015.
Couch is now being held in a Los Angeles jail after being deported from Mexico late Wednesday.
Couch was spared a custodial sentence after his legal team argued his wealthy upbringing had made him irresponsible, a condition they termed “affluenza”.
A U.S. Marshals spokesman said he could not reveal any details about her trip through California, citing security concerns in transporting someone in custody.
They were taken into custody and handed over to immigration officials.
Couch’s path into the national spotlight began in June 2013, when he was driving drunk and speeding south of Fort Worth and crashed into a disabled SUV parked on the side of the road.
Families of the people killed by Couch were relieved the teen and his mother were captured, attorney Todd Clement said. If he violates that probation, he could face up to 10 years in prison per death.
Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury. Norma Eisenman, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said Tonya Couch was being held in a detention center in L.A. until Texas authorities could make arrangements to move her.
During their last days in Puerto Vallarta, Couch and his mother lived in a modest apartment, kept a low profile and at least once used a false name as they tried to stay under the radar, local people and neighbors said. “Any roadblock they can put in the way, any hurdle, I fully expect that”, Anderson said in an interview.
The judge in the case granted Couch leniency and ordered 10 years’ probation, again helping him avoid effect for his behavior.
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Under the terms of his probation he is not supposed to drink alcohol.