The general public affairs department of the prosecutors' workplace in Mexico's Jalisco state said 18-year-old Ethan Sofa and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were apprehended in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta around 00 Monday. After their detention, they were handed over to Mexican immigration authorities for deportation, the declaration said.
That office said in a declaration that they were apprehended when they could not prove they were in Mexico legally, were in the hands of Mexican migration authorities, and would be gone back to the
Authorities started looking for the pair after Ethan Couch failed to keep a compulsory visit with his probation officer on Dec. 10.
When authorities went to his home, nobody existed, reports CBS Dallas.
The juvenile equivalent of an arrest warrant was then provided for him.
Tarrant County (Texas) Constable Dee Anderson has stated he thinks the two ran away in late November after a video appeared that appears to reveal Couch at a party where people were drinking. If it's identified he was consuming, Couch's probation could be withdrawed and he might be sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison.
A spokesman for the Tarrant County Constable's Department has decreased to say whether Tonya Sofa is dealing with any charges.
There was no immediate comment Monday night from the Marshals Service, which had actually issued a desired poster assuring a benefit of approximately $5,000 for information leading to Sofa's whereabouts and capture.
In June 2013, at age 16, Ethan Couch was driving intoxicated and speeding on a dark two-lane road south of Fort Worth when he crashed into a handicapped SUV off to the side, eliminating 4 people and hurting several others, including travelers in Couch's pickup truck.
Sofa pleaded guilty to 4 counts of intoxication murder and two counts of intoxication attack triggering severe physical injury. Since of his age, he had not been licensed as an adult for trial and a judge sentenced him in juvenile court to 10 years' probation and a stint in a rehabilitation center.
Throughout the sentencing stage of his trial, Sofa's attorneys count on a defense specialist who argued that Couch's rich parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility - a condition the professional called "affluenza." The condition is not acknowledged as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, and its invocation drew extensive ridicule.
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