‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch Put On A Plane To The US

(Instituto Nacional de Migracion, INM via AP).

A Mexican immigration official confirmed to ABC News that Ethan has been held at a migrant detention center in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City for the past several weeks.

Tonya Couch is taken by authorities to a waiting vehicle after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Thursday, Dec. 31.

“He’s very calm. He was very quiet, very passive – not at all argumentative or resistant”, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said of Couch upon his arrival.

But before that happens, a juvenile court judge will decide if Ethan remains in juvenile custody, is moved to an adult jail or is allowed to go home with an ankle monitor and or other restrictions. Prosecutors had sought a 20-year prison term, but the court handed him a surprise sentence of mental health treatment and a decade of probation.

Since Ethan is 18 now, he legally can be held in adult jail, and that transfer could happen immediately after the hearing.

The sheriff says Couch also will undergo a routine medical screening.

Tonya Couch was deported two days later, but her son had been fighting against deportation.

Couch was promptly handed over to a juvenile detention center after arriving at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport.

Ethan Couch was returned to the United States Thursday after spending more than a month in Mexico after his arrest on a probation violation, authorities said.

The advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, commonly known as MADD, earlier this month collected tens of thousands of signatures on a petition demanding that Couch’s case be moved to adult court. That argument has been widely ridiculed since Couch gained worldwide notoriety by fleeing to Mexico.

Couch was escorted onto a commercial plane, en route to Dallas, Thursday morning. He could be seen walking through the airport escorted by law enforcement.

Instead, he was sentenced to 10 years probation, which he violated in December when he was seen at a party where alcohol was served, and he missed a mandatory check-in.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) representatives declared that they’ll be at the court on February 19, to petition for Couch to enter the adult court system.

His mother was quickly deported.

While the appeal had centered on whether Couch should have been afforded a longer extradition process rather than deportation, in the end the Mexican government simply called it “an assisted return”.

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.

Couch reportedly formally made a decision to drop the appeal on Monday. The teen now joins his mother Tonya Couch, 48, back in Texas.