Federal officials join search for ‘affluenza’ teen

Ethan Couch, the 18-year-old “affluenza” teen who was convicted in the drunk driving manslaughter of four people, has gone missing and is suspected to be on the run, possibly with his mother, according to reports from CNN.

“We’re working every angle we can work”, said Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson. The U.S. Marshals Service has joined local authorities in the search.

When the attorney came to know that the probation officer could not reach him and his mother, the authorities were ordered to take Couch into custody after they saw him. Authorities aren’t even sure that it’s even Ethan Couch in the video or when the video was shot, and they state that it may have been harmless – they did, however, wish to speak with him about it – though now Ethan Couch is missing.

When Couch saw his day in court, psychologist G. Dick Miller famously said his actions could be blamed on a severe case of “affluenza”, essentially arguing the teen-a product of extremely rich parents who taught him he could do no wrong-was so tainted by his millionaire parents that he was basically a rudderless ship left adrift in the world.

This story has been corrected to reflect that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is arranging to join the search but hasn’t formally done so yet. “We’re going to find you, wherever you are”.

Couch, who was two years into the 10 years of probation he received for the crash, became a person of interest earlier this month when a teenage witness posted a video of him playing beer pong-a clear probation violation.

Among the dead were a youth pastor and a woman and her daughter.

And although they have a lot of money, they’ll easily be found if they use credit or debit cards.

Couch plowed into them, killing them all. He was speeding when he lost control of his pickup truck, swerved off a suburban road and ploughed at up to 70mph into a group of people who were helping Breanna Mitchell, whose auto had broken down. I predicted two years ago that something bad was going to happen of this.

“Affluenza aside, Ethan Couch appears to show blatant disregard for the law, and he must be held accountable”, Colleen Sheehey-Church of Mothers Against Drunk Driving said. The families impacted will never have their loved ones back; Ethan Couch must have consequences for his actions.

The parents of one of the injured teens, who suffered debilitating brain injuries, sued Couch’s family for $2 million.

At the time of the crash, Couch was 16 and had a blood-alcohol level almost three times the legal limit.

“It’s clear that she gave someone a chance that didn’t deserve it”, Todd Clement, a lawyer who represents Boyles and McConnell, said of the now retired judge.