The Texas teenager who was given probation after killing four
people while driving drunk has been detained by the Mexican authorities after
disappearing this month, according to CNN and television and newspaper reports
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The teenager, Ethan Couch, was granted leniency in the 2013
drunken-driving case after a witness testified that he suffered from
“affluenza,” or psychological problems stemming from his family’s wealth.
Mr. Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were arrested
near the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, the Tarrant County district
attorney, Sharen Wilson, told WFAA-TV in Dallas.
The Couches fled before a court hearing this month that could
have sent him to prison. ABC News quoted an official with the Jalisco state
prosecutor’s office as saying that they had been turned over to the Mexican
immigration authorities. Their arrest was earlier reported by CNN.
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