Mother of ‘affluenza’ teen is jailed in Los Angeles

Jalisco state prosecutor Eduardo Almaguer Ramirez said US authorities knew the mother and son were in the beach resort town because of a phone call to Domino’s Pizza, The Associated Press reported.

Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Samantha Jordan said Thursday that Tonya Couch has formally been charged in Texas.

“She looks forward to being returned to Texas as quickly as possible”, the attorneys’ statement reads.

Lawyers for Tonya Couch released a statement Thursday confirming she was in the custody of California authorities in Los Angeles. She’s being held in L.A. for now, on a million dollars bond.

Wednesday, U.S. Marshals said getting Ethan Couch back to face the Tarrant County music could take as long as a couple of months.

Her son, Ethan, is being held in an immigration facility in Mexico City.

Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya were caught Monday in Puerto Vallarta after skipping the country amid the 18-year-old’s probation violations.

A judge agreed on Thursday to hear the case of Ethan Cohen, 18, who was detained on Monday with his mother in a Pacific resort city, a National Migration Institute official told AFP. That could likely keep Ethan Couch in Mexico for at least two weeks because the writs “take the decision out of a lower-level agency and asks that a higher authority deport them”, Hunter said.

Cleaning staff said that they were unable to get into the Couches room on December 24.

The analysis isn’t acknowledged by the American Psychiatric Association and was extensively ridiculed.

“Couch continues to make a mockery of the system”, said Fort Worth attorney Bill Berenson, who represented Sergio Molina.

Federal and local authorities referred questions on Tonya Couch’s deportation to USA marshals, who led the cross-border hunt for Ethan Couch.

“Carrying a firearm in Mexico – even a bullet – it’s game over”, said Fort Worth immigration attorney Francisco Hernandez, who spoke with News 8 via FaceTime. The employee said his mother was always wearing shorts and both Ethan and Tonya Couch were described as discreet people. “They have done everything that they can so far to avoid being accountable, or avoid being brought to justice”, he said. The Couches then moved to an apartment, and the agents set up a surveillance operation in the surrounding streets.

The police report said they behaved evasively, claimed to be carrying no ID, gave inconsistent stories about their names and failed to provide proof of their legal migratory status in Mexico.

A Mexican immigration official said the affluent young man will have no special privileges at the Agujas immigration detention center, where detainees sleep in common areas and use concrete basins to hand-wash clothes.

The pair fled south after officials in Tarrant County, Texas, began an investigation into whether Couch violated the probation deal that kept him out of prison after he killed four people with his pickup lorry in 2013. He pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation. If convicted, she could face between two and 10 years in jail.