‘Affluenza’ teen could spend several months in jail

An official told CNN Tuesday that U.S. Marshals tracked him to Puerto Vallarta by tracing his cellphone usage.

She looked away from cameras as she was taken to an unmarked auto and driven away.

Despite demands for a recall, Judge Jean Boyd retired shortly after handing down Ethan’s sentence.

Couch drew the ire of many after a judge sentenced the then 16-year-old to 10 years probation for a 2013 drunk driving crash that killed four people. Both were detained Monday.

Despite the severe results of the youth’s consequences, Ethan Couch emerged from juvenile court with a rather light sentence: 10 years of probation.

It’s unlikely the pair had gone to Mexico for a vacation, said the sheriff, Anderson.

The official isn’t saying whether Couch is being transported by air or ground.

Associated Press writers Elizabeth Rivera, Emily Schmall, E. Eduardo Castillo, Peter Orsi and Mark Stevenson contributed.

Ethan Couch became known in the United States as the “affluenza” teen during his trial in juvenile court over the deaths of four people in the 2013 crash.

Luis witnessed Couch and his mother being escorted, handcuffed, out of the apartment by municipal police in plain clothes – right across the street from the butcher shop. They contacted Mexican authorities, who arrested the pair yesterday.

A Texas teenager who had been missing for weeks is captured in Mexico.

On Tuesday the Tarrant County, Texas sherrif’s department said it had yet to be proven if Couch is the person who appears in the video. That gives authorities a wide berth for pursuing Tonya Couch.

Authorities believe the Couches fled to Mexico in November as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.

A federal judge has three days to rule on whether Couch’s appeal is well-founded. Even if the time behind bars is short, the requirements for probation as an adult are much more strict than for juveniles, he added. It was not clear how long they had been in Mexico.

A woman walks past a building where Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother Tonya Couch stayed in at the Pac … Under Texas law, Couch, now 18, would be punished for his violation in the juvenile system.

Couch’s attorneys did not immediately return calls for comment.

(Courtesy of Jalisco state prosecutor’s office). Authorities were tipped off to their location after they used their phone to order a pizza to their condo, according to a police report issued by the Jalisco state prosecutors’ office.

They were found in a dowdy section of Puerto Vallarta’s old town, far from the glitzy resorts, golf courses and high-rise hotels of the newer section.

She said her office will push for Couch to be transferred to the adult probation system, where he would remain under supervision until February of 2024.

The report says mother and son were, “confusing about their names and mentioned they had no identification and no immigration documents”.

The so-called “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mother, who were being sought by Texas authorities, have been detained in the Pacific resort town town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

They were expected to be returned to Houston on a commercial flight later yesterday from Jalisco’s state capital, Guadalajara, Vera said.

“Four months of confinement”. But when Ethan’s probation officer couldn’t reach him on December 11, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest, which set off the manhunt, and landed him on several most wanted fugitive lists.

Tonya Couch is now charged with hindering apprehension of a criminal, a felony that carries 2 to 10 years in prison.