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Texas prosecutors charge mom of ‘affluenza’ teen
Tonya Couch is taken by authorities to a waiting vehicle after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Los Angeles.
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(TV Azteca via AP). A security agent closes a gate outside the federal building housing the offices of the national immigration service, where Ethan Couch was seen departing in an immigration van shortly after, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wednesd…
The latest updates in the “affluenza” manhunt has led to Ethan Couch and his mother expected to ring in the New Year from police custody in two different countries.
His mother faces United States charges of hindering his apprehension.
Her son, Ethan, is being held in an immigration facility in Mexico City.
Tonya Couch, who with her son Ethan was captured Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was deported Wednesday evening and booked into the Los Angeles County Jail.
Couch was declared officially missing December 10 when he did not appear at a mandatory meeting with his probation officer.
During Ethan Couch’s trial in juvenile court over the crash in 2013, a psychologist testified on his behalf that he was afflicted with “affluenza”, meaning he was so spoiled by his wealth that he could not distinguish between right and wrong.
Mexican authorities and the U.S. Marshals service were coordinating their return, which was slated for today. He said Thursday that there was no specific reason Tonya Couch was flown to Los Angeles instead of Texas.
USA marshals took her in handcuffs through an LAX terminal to an unmarked auto. Bond was set at United States $1 million.
An official with Mexico’s Migration Institute said Ethan Couch was granted a three-day court injunction. Officials have not announced a date for the move, and there is no scheduled court appearance in Los Angeles for the mother, Kim said.
Couch was sentenced to 10 years of probation after killing four pedestrians in a drunken-driving crash in 2013, when he was 16.
A call to Tonya Couch’s attorney was not immediately returned Thursday. Authorities must go through the Uniform Extradition Act to get Tonya Couch back to Tarrant County.
But moving Couch to the adult system holds a potential advantage for prosecutors.
District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison says no hearing was planned Thursday in Los Angeles, ahead of the New Year’s holiday, and that it’s unclear whether she’ll be court early next week.
The pair fled south after officials in Tarrant County, Texas, began an investigation into whether Couch violated the probation deal that kept him out of prison after he killed four people with his pickup truck in 2013.
Ethan Couch and his mother are fighting to delay their return to Texas from Mexico, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Wednesday. That could likely keep Ethan Couch in Mexico for at least two weeks because the writs “take the decision out of a lower-level agency and asks that a higher authority deport them”, Hunter said.
That official tells AP reporter Mark Stevenson that a judge has agreed to hear arguments on Couch’s appeal.
The mother of fugitive Texas teen Ethan Couch, known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, has been returned to the USA from Mexico minus her son, whose own deportation was delayed by a Mexican judge.
Tonya Couch arrived at Los Angeles International Airport, news reports say. 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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The timeline for Ethan’s return to the States is less clear, however, since it is entirely dependent on the schedule in the Mexican court that will be hearing his case.