Mom of ‘affluenza’ teen held in Los Angeles jail

The mother of a Texas teenager, derided over a claim of “affluenza” as a defense for his deadly drunken-driving crash, arrived in the United States on Thursday after deportation from Mexico while her son won a delay in his extradition, officials said.

Her son, Ethan, is wanted in Texas for an alleged probation violation in a drunken-driving case.

Couch disappeared earlier this month after he missed a mandatory meeting with his probation officer.

Mexican police say Couch and his mother spent three days in a rented condo at a resort development before finding an apartment. We believe this means Ethan will remain where he is until the Mexican Federal Judge ascertains whether or not Ethan’s rights are, or potentially will be, violated.

Ethan Couch, who was tracked to Mexico after violating his probation in the deaths of four people in 2013 while he was driving drunk, was being detained in Mexico City on Thursday, officials said. (Question: why wouldn’t that tag apply to Tonya?) It could take weeks or months for Ethan’s case to be resolved, but his eventual extradition appears to be just a matter of time. An additional condition is that Couch must pay her bail in Texas.

Ethan Couch was transferred late on Wednesday from a detention facility in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, officials said.

It was unclear when Ethan Couch would be returned to the United States.

The legal maneuver basically takes the deportation decision out of an immigration agent’s hands and asks a higher authority to make it, Hunter said Wednesday at a news conference in Houston.

Couch, who was 16 at the time, had a blood-alcohol level almost three times the legal limit for an adult.

The pair was discovered after ordering pizza from a cell phone in Mexico earlier in December, U.S. authorities were able to electronically track down the fugitive pair in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, after which local authorities arrested the pair.

The immigration facility in Guadalajara where they were held is a massive, white building with a towering fence encompassing it. For a few, brief moments before Ethan was driven to Mexico, he was seen walking near the facility’s front gate as he made his was to a transport van.

During their last days in Puerto Vallarta, Couch and his mother lived in a modest apartment, kept a low profile and at least once used a false name as they tried to stay under the radar, local people and neighbors said.

“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.

Authorities in Texas said they were issuing an arrest warrant for her on charges of hindering an apprehension, a third-degree felony that carries a sentence of two to 10 years in prison. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Couch would drive himself to school at age 13 and was found naked in a pick-up truck with a passed out female minor at the age of 15, for instance. If he ends up on adult probation and violates that, he could land in jail for up to 40 years, Wilson said.

In June 2013, he plowed into a stranded motorist and three people who were helping her. All four were killed. He was sentenced to probation.