She arrived at Los Angeles International Airport in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and was taken in handcuffs through the terminal to an unmarked Dodge Charger early Thursday morning. This Dec. 28, 2015 photo released by Mexico’s Jalisco state prosecutor’s office shows who authorities identify as Ethan Couch, after he was taken into custody in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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“While the public may not like what she did, may not agree with what she did, or may have strong feelings against what she did, make no mistake – Tonya did not violate any law of the State of Texas and she is eager to have her day in court”, Tonya Couch’s attorneys Stephanie K. Patten and Steve Gordon said in a statement released to ABC News. Mexican detectives started searching on December 24 and caught up with them at about 6 p.m. Monday.
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The U.S. Marshals Service says it’s doubtful that either Ethan Couch or his mother will return to the U.S. any time soon after a Mexican judge granted an injunction blocking his deportation from Mexico.
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During Ethan Couch’s trial in juvenile courtroom over the crash in 2013, a psychologist testified on his behalf that he was stricken with “affluenza”, which means that he was so spoiled by his wealth that he couldn’t inform the distinction between proper and fallacious.
People walk past a building where Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch stayed in the Pacific … Earlier this week, mother and son filed a writ of amparo in a Mexican court through a Mexican attorney to block their deportation, which Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Hunter described in a Houston news conference as having a similar protection as the U.S. writ of habeas corpus. Couch was facing changes to the terms of his 10-year probation sentence after he killed four pedestrians while driving drunk; his “affluenza” defense made national headlines.
While at that facility, he is being held in a room with other foreigners, and each room typically holds four or five people.
The staff said the black and silver revolver was returned to the pair.
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.
Further details have come to light about Couch’s time in Mexico, including an incident in which he ran up too big a tab at a strip club and was unable to pay, forcing his mother to foot the bill.
It could be weeks before Ethan Couch is sent back to the United States.
Bond has been set at $1 million for the mother, who may not arrive in Tarrant County until Friday, local TV broadcaster WFAA cited county prosecutors as saying.
Couch’s attorneys did not immediately return calls for comment.
Eighteen-year-old Ethan Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch, were being held at immigration offices in Guadalajara on Tuesday. Hunter said amparo cases typically take two weeks to two months.
The wealthy young American will share an open room with three other migrants at a facility known as Las Agujas, the migration official said. Prosecutors had sought a 20-year prison term, but the court handed him a surprise sentence of mental health treatment and a decade of probation.
Ethan Couch picked up the gun the next day, but did not explain why he had the weapon, according to the hotel workers.
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Couch, who was 16 at the time of the crash, infamously was given a slap-on-the-wrist punishment of 10 years’ probation after claiming he suffered from “affluenza” – the alleged inability to understand the consequences of his actions because of his privileged upbringing.
