Tonya Couch, 38, was aureate to Los Angeles in the average of the night endure anniversary afterwards she and her son, Ethan Couch, 18, were bent in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, area the boyhood had been on the lam for an declared acquittal violation.
The teen's mom is accused of allowance her son abscond the country and hide. She's getting captivated in canton bastille until she is beatific aback to Texas to face charges, authorities said. Her audition is appointed for Tuesday morning, an LAPD official said.
Couch and her son were advised all-embracing fugitives afterwards he bootless to appearance up for a acquittal hearing.
In 2013, if he was 16, Ethan Couch addled and dead four pedestrians abreast Forth Worth while active drunk. Prosecutors capital Couch to serve 20 years in prison.
Instead, he was bedevilled to adjust and acquittal afterwards a aegis able argued in adolescent cloister that Couch suffered from "affluenza" _ an disability to acquaint appropriate from amiss because he had a baby accomplishments and affluent parents who never punished him for bad behavior.
The agreement of his 10-year acquittal forbid him from active or arresting alcohol.
But on Dec. 2, a Twitter user acquaint a six-second video that appeared to appearance Couch, now 18, acclamation and animated at a affair area adolescent men were arena beer pong.
Couch and his mother abolished anon afterward. They were begin endure anniversary in the Mexican resort boondocks of Puerto Vallarta afterwards they ordered pizza and authorities traced the call.
Ethan Couch charcoal in aegis in Mexico and is angry displacement to the U.S.
Richard Hunter, arch agent U.S. align for the southern commune of Texas, said that a three-day admonition accepted to Couch would apparently yield at atomic two weeks to resolve. But such acknowledged assignment to block displacement from Mexico can annoyance on for months.
Though Couch is now accurately an adult, his case is still getting handled in adolescent cloister in Texas. Under Texas adolescent law, even if he is alternate to the U.S. and is begin to accept abandoned his probation, Couch may accept to absorb alone up to 120 canicule in jail.
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