She is being held without bail in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Los Angeles and faces transfer to Texas, said Los Angeles police spokeswoman Jane Kim.
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Anderson said he supports the district attorney’s request to transfer Couch’s sentence from the juvenile system to the adult court system.
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Texas prosecutors say the mother of a fugitive teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense has been charged with hindering apprehension of a felon after fleeing with her son to Mexico. Officials have not announced a date for the move, and there is no scheduled court appearance in Los Angeles for the mother, Kim said.
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“Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mother had a gun with them when they checked into a Mexican resort, hotel employees said. He said authorities have no evidence that Couch’s father was involved in the getaway.
Lawyers for Tonya Couch released a statement Thursday confirming she was in the custody of California authorities in Los Angeles.
The National Immigration Institute official said Tonya Couch was sent home because immigration authorities did not receive a judge’s injunction like the one that temporarily blocked the deportation of her son.
Ethan Couch remains in Mexico after he won a delay of his deportation to the United States.
Ethan Couch was reportedly granted a three-day court injunction; however, since no similar paperwork was filed for Tonya Couch, she was deported as soon as officials could secure a sufficient number of tickets to a US destination, the news station notes.
An armed guard stands inside the main gate at the Agujas immigration detention center, where US fugitive Ethan Couth is being detained in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.
Officials have not announced a date for the move.
But his mother was deported and flown to Los Angeles, where she was escorted through the city’s sprawling LAX airport in handcuffs by US marshals early Thursday morning. Richard Hunter, chief deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in South Texas, said Wednesday that the legal maneuver basically takes the deportation decision out of an immigration agent’s hands and asks a higher authority to make it.
Her son, Ethan Couch, used an “affluenza” defense during that 2013 case. He could be held in Mexico for at least two weeks.
Authorities believe Ethan Couch, who was sentenced only to probation for the wreck that killed four people, fled to Mexico with his mother in November as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.
Ethan Couch’s case would now be subject to immigration proceedings because he entered the country illegally, but he would ultimately not be able to stay in the country, said the Mexican official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Authorities found the Couches in Puerto Vallarta after tracking down a call from one of their phones to a Domino’s Pizza.
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His attorneys coined the term “affluenza” to describe the privileged upbringing they said was responsible for their client’s behavior. The judge had 72 hours to decide whether to take up the case. Such cases can often take up to several months, depending on the priorities of the local courts, he said. “It’s the transportation that is an offense both in the USA and Mexico, but in Mexico you’re looking at about a five-year sentence”. Jordan said the timing of Couch’s return to Texas is contingent on when Los Angeles County schedules an extradition hearing.
