'Affluenza' teen's mother soon to be sent to Texas: sheriff
Source: Reuters
'Affluenza' teen's mother soon to be sent to Texas: sheriff
Reuters
By Jon Herskovitz
43 minutes ago
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The mother of a Texas teenager, derided for an "affluenza" defense in a deadly drunken-driving crash he caused, will soon be transferred from detention in Los Angeles to the Fort Worth area, the Tarrant County Sheriff said on Wednesday.
Tonya Couch, 48, has been charged with third-degree felony for helping her son Ethan, 18, escape to Mexico, a crime that can bring up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
"Plans for her return now in motion," Sheriff Dee Anderson said on his Twitter feed. No details will be released on her extradition but she could be in Texas as early as this week.
Once she returns, she will be held on a bond of $1 million. Her son Ethan is in a Mexican immigration detention facility and fighting his extradition.
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)Bail?
Seriously?
Would love to keep their $1 million bail. She won't be hard to find again. She can't not use her cell phone and credit cards, stay in hotels, order pizza, cover her sons strip club tab. She's not cut out to be on the lam, and as long as they have the son, she won't be far away.
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)She can get back to set up connections to feed poor neglected Luhu.
cstanleytech
(26,223 posts)their own parole to flee out of the country.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Since he violated his probation make him serve the full term of the probation in prison. The mom should also go to prison for helping him leave the country. She KNEW what she was doing and there is no excuse.