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U.S. NEWSFriday 29 January 2016
Deported ‘affluenza’ teen booked into Texas detention center
EMILY SCHMALL whether his case will be custody at least until the
MARK STEVENSON transferred to the adult sys-
Associated Press tem, where he could face hearing next month.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — more time behind bars.
The teenager who used an “He’s certainly capable of During the trial in the ju-
“affluenza” defense in a fa- understanding now what’s
tal drunken-driving wreck going on, and I’d feel bet- venile case, a defense
was booked into a Texas ju- ter if he was there (in an
venile detention center fol- adult jail),” Anderson said. witness argued the then-
lowing his deportation from Authorities believe Couch
Mexico on Thursday, more and his mother fled Texas 16-year-old Couch had
than a month after he and in her pickup truck in early
his mother fled the U.S. as December, after an online been coddled into a sense
prosecutors investigated video appeared to show
whether he had violated Couch at a party where of irresponsibility by his
his probation. people were drinking.
Ethan Couch, 18, arrived Couch was sentenced in wealthy parents. The ex-
at Dallas-Fort Worth Inter- juvenile court to 10 years
national Airport late Thurs- of probation for the 2013 pert deemed the condi-
day morning and could wreck that killed four peo-
be seen walking through ple and injured several oth- tion “affluenza,” which isn’t
the airport escorted by ers. The terms prohibit him
law enforcement. Couch from drinking or leaving Tar- recognized as a medical
and his mother were ap- rant County, Texas.
prehended in the Mexican Couch’s attorneys Scott diagnosis by the American
resort city of Puerto Vallar- Brown and Reagan Wynn
ta on Dec. 28, after a call said in a statement Thurs- Psychiatric Association and
for pizza delivery tipped off day they are “optimistic”
authorities to their where- their client will complete drew widespread derision.
abouts. his probation term without
Couch initially fought de- any further issues. They also Couch’s mother, Tonya
portation, but he dropped predicted the judge would
the fight this week. His Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson speaks with media after keep Couch in juvenile Couch, is charged in Tex-
Ethan Couch was taken into the Scott D. Moore Juvenile Justice
Center on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Fort Worth, Texas. as with hindering the ap-
(AP Photo/Ron Jenkins) prehension of a felon. She
was released on bond this
month after being fitted
mother was deported last for justice for the families with an electronic ankle
month. and the four victims that
“We’ve reached a great were killed.” GPS monitor. According to
milestone,” Tarrant County Couch is scheduled for a
Sheriff Dee Anderson said court hearing Friday where an arrest warrant, she told
outside the juvenile facil- a judge could decide to
ity in Fort Worth. “This is a move him to an adult jail, her estranged husband,
day we’ve looked forward which Anderson said he
to, when we have them would support given the se- Fred Couch, that he would
both here and back under verity of Couch’s offenses.
the jurisdiction here. We’re Couch also faces a hear- never see her or their son
hoping that the day comes ing on Feb. 19 to determine
again before fleeing.
Mexican immigration
agents put Ethan Couch
on a Texas-bound com-
mercial flight in Mexico City
early Thursday. q
Oregon standoff dwindles to 4 holdouts demanding no arrests
NICH K. GERANIOS sible.” trol. But the compound has video posted on Thursday. “We’re asking, just drop the
TERRENCE PETTY “We’re still stuck here, four been emptying out since He was also shown danc- charges and we’re willing
Associated Press of us. They’re telling us it’s the arrest of their leader, ing outdoors to a country- to go. But if they’re not will-
BURNS, Oregon (AP) — The safe to leave, but it’s not Ammon Bundy, and 10 oth- western tune with a wom- ing to do that, we’re all just
armed takeover of an Or- safe,” a spokesman be- ers over the past few days. an identified as his wife. willing to stay here and see
egon wildlife refuge dwin- lieved to be occupier Da- With the Malheur National Oregon Public Broadcast- what happens.”
dled Thursday to just four vid Fry said in a video post- Wildlife Refuge surrounded ing spoke with the holdouts Bundy and seven other
holdouts demanding as- ed on YouTube nearly four by the FBI, the occupiers and identified them as Fry, main figures in the takeover
surances they will not be weeks into the standoff in have been posting videos who is from Ohio, husband were arrested earlier in the
arrested by the FBI if they the frozen high desert. on YouTube showing them and wife Sean and Sandy week, most of them in a
surrender. The occupation by ranch- around a campfire, along Anderson of Idaho, and traffic stop Tuesday night
The FBI had no immediate ers and others began on with pickup trucks, an Jeff Banta of Nevada. Fry that erupted in gunfire and
comment on the negotia- Jan. 2, and at one point American flag, guns, an old told the station that Sean left one follower dead. On
tions or the holdouts’ de- there were a couple of car and assorted clutter. Anderson faces a federal Wednesday, three more
mands, saying only that it dozen people holed up, “We want to live. We want arrest warrant. followers surrendered after
was trying to “empty the demanding that the fed- to go home peacefully,” In one of the videos posted Bundy pleaded in a state-
refuge of the armed occu- eral government turn pub- one of the men, who was Thursday, the speaker — ment from jail: “Please
piers in the safest way pos- lic lands over to local con- not identified, said in a believed to be Fry — said: stand down.q
