‘Affluenza’ teen’s mom jailed in L.A.; he’s still in Mexico

Lawyers for Tonya Couch released a statement Thursday confirming she was in the custody of California authorities in Los Angeles.

Judge Jean Boyd sentenced Couch to probation over the objections of prosecutors who asked for 20 years’ detention.

Anyone outside that courtroom could have predicted Couch would find himself in trouble with the law in short order.

Half of the Couch duo is back in the United States.

The attorney did acknowledge the case, and the lives lost and families destroyed by Ethan Couch’s fatal crash.

“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.

Ethan Couch was transported late Wednesday from a detention center in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, an official with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute told the Associated Press.

Anderson said he was not surprised by the pair seeking the delay.

Ethan Couch – infamous for his defense team’s assertion that he was suffering from “affluenza” when he killed four people while driving drunk – remains in Mexico, pending the resolution of his “writ of amparo” request to the Mexican government.

Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury. He has been transferred from Puerto Vallarta to a detention facility in Mexico City, Mexican immigration officials said. He could be held in Mexico for at least two weeks.

The phrase “Carrot Top” trended on Twitter after Tonya Couch’s return to the U.S. Many on Twitter commented on her resemblance to Carrot Top, the American comedian.

“They have done everything that they can so far to avoid being accountable, or avoid being brought to justice”, he said. A resort employee tells the Dallas Morning News that Ethan went to a “gentleman’s club” one night but didn’t have enough money to cover his tab.

(Mexico’s Jalisco state prosecutor’s office via AP). The plan was always to transition Couch to the adult probation system when he got close to aging out of the juvenile system when he turned 19.

The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving wreck grew up in a wealthy yet unstable household where his parents underwent an acrimonious divorce, which included accusations that his…

Ethan Couch probably will be able to stay in Mexico for longer than the next three days because of the holidays, Richard Hunter, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the southern district of Texas, said in a Wednesday news conference. Fred Couch, now 50, told a social worker that their marriage had been a “mistake from the start”, Johnson County court documents show.

Couch was declared officially missing December 10 when he did not appear at a mandatory meeting with his probation officer.

The stiffest punishment Ethan Couch can receive for fleeing the country while on probation is several months in jail, Wilson said Tuesday. Jordan said the timing of Couch’s return to Texas is contingent on when Los Angeles County schedules an extradition hearing.