Mother of ‘affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch arraigned in Texas on charge of

Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson told reporters at a news conference that Couch had complained about the conditions of her jail cell, to which he responded by saying it “is a jail, not a resort”.

Tonya Couch appears before state District Judge Wayne Salvant in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. The judge asked that she surrender her passport, but she said her temporary passport was seized in Mexico, so she does not now have one in her possession.

Judge Salvant told Couch that if she does make bond, she will have many restrictions, including a Global Positioning System monitor.

Sheriff Anderson said Thursday, “it’s not a question of if he’s coming back, it’s a question of when he’s coming back”.

She expressed a bit of displeasure about her accommodations. The judge said she was tied up in traffic. “I don’t think he’s had any contact with anyone who’s been arrested, ever”.

She also disclosed to Salvant that she and Fred Couch are still married. At that time, he will consider reducing the bond amount, which was set at $1 million. Couch’s bond is now set at $1 million, and a bond reduction hearing is set for Monday.

Tonya Couch returned to the United States last week and had been in the custody of the Los Angeles police.

Afterward Couch’s attorney, Stephanie Patten, said she had concerns that Anderson had talked with her client about her passport. Tapia II ordered her held without bail while she was waiting to be picked up by authorities from Texas.

Ethan has been detained at an immigration detention center in Mexico City. Unlike his mother, he is fighting extradition.

Tonya Couch was escorted on an American Airlines flight by two sheriff’s deputies after being picked up from a Los Angeles County jail (Thinkstock).

Defendants in other cases arrived at the courthouse for their own hearings, amused by the hubbub for Tonya Couch’s arraignment hearing. Authorities said she and her son, Texas teenager Ethan Couch, who was sentenced to probation after using an “affluenza” defense for a 2013 wreck in Texas, fled to Mexico together in November as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.