Mom of ‘affluenza’ teen didn’t break law, attorney said

He missed a required check-in with Texas authorities earlier this month.

State District Judge Jean Boyd, who is now retired, sentenced Ethan Couch to probation on four counts of intoxication manslaughter in December 2013.

A mother who fled to Mexico with her killer son in America’s so-called affluenza case was facing up to ten years in prison last night after arriving back in the US. The police spokeswoman didn’t know why Couch came through Los Angeles or when she would be transported.

Ethan, 18, and his mother were apprehended in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Monday after the U.S. Marshals Service and other American law enforcement agencies had been searching for them for almost two weeks.

Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya were caught Monday in Puerto Vallarta after skipping the country amid the 18-year-old’s probation violations.

The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving wreck grew up in a wealthy yet unstable household.

Tonya Couch is seen in an undated handout picture released by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Offic …

“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. Bond was set at United States $1 million.

Couch is now being held in a Los Angeles jail after being deported from Mexico late Wednesday.

That likely won’t happen until at least next week.

If convicted, Tonya Couch faces a sentence of two to 10 years behind bars for assisting her son in eluding the authorities. They immediately called the hotel and an employee picked up the gun and wrapped it inside a bathroom carpet and put it in a plastic bag, the employees say. Officials haven’t introduced a date for the transfer and there’s no scheduled courtroom look in Los Angeles for the mother, Kim stated. She will remain jailed in Los Angeles until officers can take her to Texas. “She did this, it appears, to protect her son”.

The mother of the Texas teen known for his “affluenza” defense after he was given probation for killing four people in a 2013 drunken-driving crash has been officially charged with hindering apprehension after her return to the United States from Mexico. He said such cases can often take anywhere from two weeks to several months, depending on the priorities of the local courts.

His attorneys coined the term “affluenza” to describe the privileged upbringing they said was responsible for their client’s behavior.

That official tells AP reporter Mark Stevenson that a judge has agreed to hear arguments on Couch’s appeal.

Authorities believe the Couches fled to Mexico in November as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.

The social worker concluded that the Couches had “adultified” a then-9-year-old Ethan, allowing him to become overly involved in adult issues and decisions.

It was unclear why she was brought to Los Angeles and where she would be taken next.