'Affluenza' teen's mother soon to be sent to Texas: sheriff

[Judi Lynn]

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.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/affluenza-teens-mother-soon-sent-texas-sheriff-191821880.html

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. FREE CARROT TOP!!!!!!!!

[Fuddnik]

3. +1

[Raster]

4. +2

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Thank you, for not posting a picture of Carrot Top! nt

[Iggo]

2. Can you say: FLIGHT RISK?

Bail?

Seriously?

[ToxMarz]

7. Let her run

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]

6. At least now

She can get back to set up connections to feed poor neglected Luhu.

[cstanleytech]

8. She deserves the full 10 without parole considering she already aided someone in breaking

their own parole to flee out of the country.

[davidpdx]

9. Jail both of them

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.

[branford]

10. Why was she sent to Los Angeles, rather than straight to Texas? nt

[24601]

11. "Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima