Ethan Couch, the infamous “affluenza teen” who skated on probation after killing four people in a drunk driving accident in 2013, has finally been tagged with the extended prison sentence he and his family fled the country to avoid.
Affluenza teen Ethan Couch—who was previously detained in beautiful, sunny Puerto Vallarta before being sent off to juvie in Texas—got some bad news this morning. A Texas judge has ruled to move the 18-year-old’s case to adult court, meaning he could face actual jail time for his role in the drunk-driving accident that killed four people.
Ethan Couch—a.k.a. Ya Boy, a.k.a. the Affluenza Teen—was deported from Mexico on Thursday and booked into a Fort Worth, Texas, juvenile detention center, the Associated Press reports. “We’ve reached a great milestone,” Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said outside the facility.
Ya boy Ethan Couch is leaving Mexico today on a commercial flight to Dallas, Texas, according to Mexican immigration officials. He is ready to face the music in the U.S., his Mexican attorney Fernando Benitez told NBC News yesterday: “I believe he is relieved to be coming back. I think he has come to terms with this.”
Ethan Couch’s lawyers say that they are investigating whether the 18-year-old arrested in Mexico last month fled there, willingly violating the terms of his probation, or was forced, Reuters reports. “We are examining the facts...to determine whether he was taken voluntarily or involuntarily to Mexico,” attorney Scott Brown said.
Have you seen a dog that looks sort of like the dog you see above roaming the streets of beautiful, sunny Puerto Vallarta? If so, you might be able to score a $1,000 reward. Because as it turns out, that dog belongs to none other than ya boy, affluenza teen Ethan Couch.
Tonya Couch, mother of Ethan Couch, the “affluenza” teen, whose strip club bill she reportedly paid while they were on the lam in Mexico, agreed in California court on Tuesday to return to Texas, waiving extradition. Couch faces felony charges related to hindering her son’s apprehension.
An employee of a Mexican resort where Ethan and Tonya Couch hid from justice this month tells the Dallas Morning News that while the pair were staying there, the “affluenza” teen went to a strip club, spent more money than he had, and had his mother bail him out.
Ethan “Affluenza” Couch’s mother, Tonya Couch, has been deported to the United States, Mexican officials told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The fugitive teen, meanwhile, will likely remain in Mexico for at least another two weeks and possibly several months.
Before making their way to Mexico’s Pacific coast, where they were eventually detained, “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch and his mother threw themselves a party, officials said Tuesday. Later, as the duo drove south, police received “dozens and dozens of calls of sightings” of them or their truck.
Mexican authorities have detained the “affluenza” teen and his mother near a Mexican beach resort town, CNN reports. U.S. Marshals and the FBI have been looking for Ethan Couch for weeks.
Ethan Couch, the teenager who killed four people and severely injured two others in a DUI crash but got off because a jury bought his lawyer’s so-called “affluenza” defense, has stunningly run afoul of the law once again.
Texas’ infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, on probation for four counts of intoxication manslaughter, after he struck and killed four people while going 70 mph in a 40 mph zone in 2013, is under investigation for potentially violating the terms of his probation.
The wealthy father of a Texas teen whose "affluenza" defense helped him avoid prison after a deadly drunk driving accident has been arrested for allegedly pretending to be a police officer, the Dallas News reported.
The psychologist who convinced a Texas judge that 16-year-old Ethan Couch was too rich to know right from wrong says he shouldn't have used the word "affluenza," but insists his defense of the teen was otherwise sound.
