鈥楢ffluenza鈥 mother returned to US
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The mother of fugitive Texas teen Ethan Couch, known for using an 鈥渁ffluenza鈥 defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, has been returned to the United States from Mexico minus her son, whose own deportation was delayed by a Mexican judge.
Tonya Couch arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on a flight from Mexico in the custody of the US Marshals Service and was taken in handcuffs through the terminal to an unmarked car yesterday morning. She was flanked by two marshals.
It was unclear why she was taken to Los Angeles instead of Texas, where she and her son live and where he was on probation for the 2013 drink-driving crash.
Authorities said they believe the 18-year-old Ethan Couch, who was sentenced only to probation for the 2013 crash in Texas, fled to Mexico with his mother in November as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.
Both were taken into custody on Monday after authorities said a phone call for pizza led to their capture in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
During the sentencing phase of Ethan Couch鈥檚 trial, a defense expert argued that his wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility 鈥 a condition the expert termed 鈥渁ffluenza.鈥 The condition is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association.
Richard Hunter, chief deputy for the US Marshals Service in South Texas, said during a news conference in Houston on Wednesday that a three-day court injunction granted in Mexico to Ethan Couch will likely take at least two weeks to resolve.
But the injunction did not apply to Tonya Couch, who was deported immediately, said an official with Mexico鈥檚 National Immigration Institute.
Ethan Couch was transported late on Wednesday from a detention facility in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, the official said. The decision to move him was made because the Mexico City facility for detaining migrants is larger and better equipped to hold someone for days or weeks.
The ruling earlier on Wednesday by the Mexican court gives a judge three days to decide whether the younger Couch has grounds to challenge his deportation based on arguments that kicking him out of the country would violate his rights.
Mexican police said Couch and his mother spent three days in a rented condo in Puerto Vallarta before finding an apartment.
One of their phones had been used to order a pizza, according to a police report.
On Monday evening, two people matching the Couches鈥 description were spotted and intercepted. The police report said they behaved evasively. They were taken into custody and handed over to immigration officials.
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