Fugitive teen, mother expected back in US

USA marshals took her in handcuffs through an LAX terminal to an unmarked vehicle.

Meanwhile, her son’s injunction will likely take at least two weeks to resolve, said Richard Hunter, chief deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in South Texas.

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

“Couch continues to make a mockery of the system”, said Fort Worth attorney Bill Berenson, who represented Sergio Molina, who was paralyzed and suffered severe brain damage in the crash.

-Associated Press writer E. Eduardo Castillo contributed to this item.

A Mexican official says the mother of young USA fugitive Ethan Couch has been deported to the United States. The police spokeswoman didn’t know why Couch came through Los Angeles or when she would be transported. For now he will remain in custody in Guadalajara.

Couch’s attorneys, Scott Brown and Reagan Wynn, said they won’t comment until they speak with him, which likely won’t happen before Couch reaches the U.S. Authorities believe that Couch and his mother planned their escape due to that video.

The Couches were detained Monday. He was sentenced to 10 years drug-and-alcohol-free probation for intoxication manslaughter, a punishment condemned by critics as privilege rewarded with leniency.

Prosecutors had sought 20 years in prison for Couch, but judges handed him a surprise sentence of mental-health treatment and a decade of probation.

A federal judge has three days to rule on whether Couch’s appeal is well-founded.

Earlier, Ricardo Ariel Vera, the representative of Mexico’s immigration institute in the western state of Jalisco, said Tonya and Ethan Couch, 18, were held Tuesday at immigration offices in the state capital, Guadalajara.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the Mexican official said Tonya Couch was placed on a flight to Los Angeles because there were no more flights available to Texas.

People in the neighborhood definitely noticed the arrival of Ethan Couch and his mother. They were being held at immigration offices in Guadalajara.

According to a police report issued by the Jalisco state prosecutors’ office, the Couches used one of their phones to order pizza in their room, ABC News reported.

But one of the condo’s employees found them an apartment in Puerto Vallarta’s less glitzy center.

Couch and his mother fled the United States earlier this month after a video surfaced online apparently showing Ethan Couch at a party where beer was being consumed.

Authorities say a teen fugitive known for using an “affluenza” defense and his mother are scheduled to depart for the USA after a phone call for pizza led to their capture in Mexico.

People walk past a building where Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch stayed in the Pacific …

Ethan Couch was driving drunk and speeding on a road south of Fort Worth in June 2013 when he crashed into a disabled SUV off to the side, killing four people and injuring several others, including passengers in his pickup truck.

Authorities began searching for Couch a few weeks ago after he missed a mandatory meeting with his probation officer. They will be met there by Tarrant County authorities who will then return them to North Texas.