Teen held at Mexico City detention center

“It was really good old-fashioned police work that led to this”, he said. “We do not have any additional information concerning this matter to provide at this time”.

Anderson said Couch and his mother apparently crossed the border in her pickup and drove to Puerto Vallarta. It’s on their time schedule. “We are uncertain how long the legal process in Mexico will take or how it will ultimately be resolved”.

Couch and his mother were detained in Mexico on Monday.

It was unclear why she was brought to Los Angeles instead of Texas, where she and her son live and where he was on probation for the 2013 drunken-driving crash.

The long arm of the law has caught up with “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch. He said authorities have no evidence that Couch’s father, who owns a sheet metal factory in North Texas, was involved.

“Fred Couch has been cooperating with officials from the Tarrant County District Attorneys Office and the U.S. Marshals Service in their search for Ethan”, the statement from Lance Evans reads, according to ABC News. If he violates probation again, he could face up to 10 years in prison per death, Wilson said. A judge sentenced him in juvenile court to 10 years’ probation and a stint in a rehabilitation center. But even if that happens, the maximum punishment he could face is 120 days in jail. But if he is treated as a juvenile, the sentence would be lighter, Wilson said.

Though he’s an adult now, Couch was 16 when he was sentenced for the original crime. The terms don’t expire until he turns 19 in April.

Prosecutors are trying to work around this by moving his probation to adult court.

It was not immediately clear why Tonya Couch was not included in the judge’s injunction.

A drunk and speeding Couch crashed into an SUV near Fort Worth in June 2013, killing four people and injuring several others, including passengers in his pick-up truck. Molina was paralyzed and suffered severe brain damage in the crash.

Couch’s blood alcohol levels were three times over the limit and he also had Valium in his system after he and a group of friends stole alcohol from a Walmart supermarket.

Prosecutors had asked that Couch be sentenced to 20 years in a state juvenile lockup. During his 2013 trial on drunken-driving charges, a defense witness testified that Ethan was afflicted with so-called “affluenza”, meaning his irresponsible behavior and lifestyle were a product of his affluent upbringing and “profoundly dysfunctional” parents.

It has now emerged the teenager planned the flight and even held a farewell party.

“I’ve learned at this point to not be surprised by what these people will do and how far they will go to not face justice”, Anderson said.

Mexican authorities said he and his mother, Tonya Couch, spent three days at a resort before renting an apartment.

But one of the condo’s employees found them an apartment in Puerto Vallarta’s less glitzy center. The son had dyed his blond hair and beard black.

It’s unlikely the pair had gone to Mexico for a vacation, said the sheriff, Anderson.

The pair entered Mexico as tourists and exceeded their allowed length of stay.

Her son remains in Mexico in an immigration facility because a judge issued an injunction temporarily blocking his deportation.

“Their wish is to return to the state of Texas. This is what they have requested”, Ricardo Vera said.

Breanna Mitchel was killed at age 24, when Couch plowed into her. Her cousin Bill Heburn told CNN affiliate WFTS that Mitchel’s family forgives Couch, but wants him punished.

Ethan Couch was transported late Wednesday from a detention facility in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, the Mexican official said.