Sheriff: Mother of ‘affluenza’ teen complaining about conditions in jail

Tonya Couch appears in court in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.

Mother of fugitive teen, Ethan Couch, who is serving probation for killing 4 people in a drunken driving wreck, is back in Texas.

Tonya Couch spent the night in the Tarrant County Jail after her return to Texas following her extradition, first from Mexico and then California.

Tonya Couch was extradited to Texas and is now being held in a Texas jail cell while her son remains in Mexico.

She’s accused of helping her teen son flee the country last month.

Salvant also ordered her passport to be confiscated in the short hearing, but Couch, 48, said she does not have a passport.

News cameras show Tonya arriving at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport from Los Angeles.

Tarrant County Judge Wayne Salvant advised Tonya Couch of the charge at the hearing Friday.

Her bond was set at $US1 million.

She was put into the back of an SUV and sent on her way to the county jail, where a throng of media members awaited her arrival. The judge stated the complaint asserted Tonya Couch provided him with “means of avoiding arrest or affecting escape, by financing and transporting Ethan Couch and his flight from this jurisdiction and the court of the State of Texas”. One woman, here for her husband’s case, said she hadn’t heard of Ethan or Tonya Couch before. “We think anything $25,000 or under would be fair”, Patten told reporters.

The mother-son duo moved into a condo in Puerto Vallarta without notifying staff at the hotel they were leaving.

After the deadly crash, Ethan Couch pleaded guilty in juvenile court to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.

Ethan Couch is in a Mexican immigration detention facility while he fights deportation, which could take months.

With seven passengers in his Ford F-350 pick-up, Ethan Couch, who was 16 at the time, was driving drunk and speeding on June 15, 2013, when he crashed into a group of people trying to help a stranded motorist.

Attorneys Stephanie K. Patten and Steve Gordon told FOX News, that even though the public may not agree with the mother’s actions, she did not violate any law of the State of Texas and that she eagerly awaits her trial.