‘Affluenza’ teen’s mom complains about jail cell

Couch was arraigned Friday on a charge of hinder apprehension for allegedly helping her son flee to Mexico after he violated probation.

A hearing will be held on Monday for a request by her lawyers to seek a reduction in the bond that has been set at $1 million. Salvant asked her if she understood the charges brought against her and explained some of the details of the complaint, including that she intended “to hinder the arrest, detention, adjudication or disposition of a child, Ethan Couch”.

Couch, 48, is charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive, after authorities say she fled to Mexico with the so-called “affluenza” teenager while he was on probation for killing four people in a drunken driving crash in 2013.

Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother were arrested last month in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, after authorities said that one of them used their personal cellphone to order a pizza for delivery, opening the door to their detection. She has not yet entered a plea.

Tonya Couch is back in the US after being booted from Mexico. Couch is confined in a single cell in the county’s newest jail.

Afterward Couch’s attorney, Stephanie Patten, said she had concerns that Anderson had talked with her client about her passport.

Tonya Couch was escorted on an American Airlines flight by two sheriff’s deputies after being picked up from a Los Angeles County jail, according to Terry Grisham, executive administrator for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. Couch complained that it was too bright to sleep in her cell.

Tonya Couch, right, is escorted into Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Tonya Couch was “cooperative” and respectful as she was being taken into jail.

Besides the large media presence for Tonya Couch’s hearing, business in Salvant’s court seemed to continue as usual. She flew to Los Angeles with the help of some U.S. Marshals on New Year’s Eve and agreed not to fight returning to Texas on Tuesday.

Tonya Couch also told the sheriff that she had been treated respectfully by authorities since she was detained and sent back to the United States.