‘Affluenza’ teen ordered held in juvenile center

His 10 years’ probation also mandated that he not leave Tarrant County, Texas.

Affluenza teen Ethan Couch will remain in juvenile detention-for now.

The Texas teenager whose lawyers infamously invoked an “affluenza” defense while on trial for a fatal drunken-driving crash is back in the U.S.

On Friday, Ethan Couch sat silent in court as Judge Timothy Menikos ruled that the teenager will remain in the juvenile detention facility while he awaits his next hearing.

After about a month in Mexico, Couch boarded a plane Thursday in Mexico City and landed in Texas.

Ethan Couch, 18, fled to Mexico last month with his mother after he apparently violated the probation deal reached in juvenile court that kept him out of prison for killing four people while driving drunk in 2013.

A move to an adult prison would mean Couch will do 120 days, plus stay on probation for 10 more years.

One of the severely injured victims from Ethan Couch’s fatal drunken driving wreck plans to attend the next hearing in the case.

“Behind every incident are the victims, and this should be their story”, Wilson said in a statement Friday. The expert deemed the condition “affluenza”, which isn’t recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association and drew widespread derision. 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.

That outraged MADD, law enforcement groups, and relatives of the victims who argued that Couch deserved a stiffer sentence for doing so much damage.

Couch will not fight the transfer of his probation case to adult court, Brown said.

Couch’s blood alcohol content at the time of the crash, when he killed a stranded motorist and three other people, was almost three times beyond the legal limit for an adult.

“He’s certainly capable of understanding now what’s going on, and I’d feel better if he was there”, Anderson said.

Couch and his mother disappeared in December, after an online video appeared to show Couch at a party where people were drinking. Couch was apprehended with his mother in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta on December 28, after a call for delivery pizza tipped off authorities to their whereabouts. Tonya Couch was quickly sent back to the United States, charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon and released from jail after posting bail. A hearing set for February 19 will determine whether he is transferred to an adult jail.

He was convicted of four counts of intoxication manslaughter stemming from the deadly June 15, 2013 wreck in Burleson, Texas.

If the case isn’t trasferred to the adult court, Couch’s record could be wiped clean when he turns 19 in April.