US ‘Affluenza’ Teen To Remain In Mexico For Now, Mom Charged

Couch killed four people and injured several others when driving while drunk near Forth Worth in 2013.

Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury.

At the time, many were outraged that a judge sentenced him to probation instead of jail time, slamming his now-notorious “affluenza” defense.

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

Prosecutors want to see Couch in an adult court, but because the alleged violation happened in the juvenile system, Couch effectively would start with a clean slate in the adult probation system.

If the judge declines to transfer Couch to adult court, Wilson will ask that his probation be revoked, in which case he could be held in a juvenile facility until his sentence expires when he turns 19 next April.

He said that his wife, now 48, was addicted to Vicodin and had given the painkiller to their son about five times.

“She’s gone. She was headed to Los Angeles”, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, without giving more details about the flight. She said there was daily name-calling, that he often grabbed her by the hair and that he once “threw her into a fireplace”.

Ethan Couch and his mother reportedly brought a gun to the hotel where they were hiding in Mexico.

It wasn’t so much Ethan Couch’s original crime that drew the nation’s ire as it was the punishment doled out for it. Couch was also ordered to enter a “lockdown” addiction treatment facility and not to drive or use alcohol or drugs for 10 years.

While being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, she was formally charged with Hindering Apprehension of a Felon.

Fred Couch founded Cleburne Metal Works, which does large-scale metal roofing, in 1986. There is still no word on Ethan Couch’s punishment. It was unclear whether he received a high school diploma or GED.

Couch and his mother fled america earlier this month after a video surfaced on-line apparently displaying Ethan Couch at a party the place beer was being consumed. He said authorities have no evidence that Couch’s father was involved in the getaway.

Couch was declared officially missing December 10 when he did not appear at a mandatory meeting with his probation officer. He is expected to stay there while his deportation appeal is considered. The judge has three days to consider the appeal.

Ethan Couch probably will be able to stay in Mexico for longer than the next three days because of the holidays, Richard Hunter, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the southern district of Texas, said in a Wednesday news conference. She was in the custody of marshals.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to ABC News that she is in segregation, which means that she is effectively in solitary confinement. Bail was set at $1 million.

If found to have violated his probation, it could be revoked and Couch could face up to four months in jail.

Authorities say Couch fled to Mexico with her 18-year-old son as Texas prosecutors investigated whether he violated probation in a drunken-driving case.

Eisenman says Couch will be held until US marshals arrive to take her to Texas, where she and her son, 18-year-old Ethan Couch, live and where he was on probation for the 2013 crash.