A 20-year-old Texas man who as a teenager invoked "affluenza" in his defense after killing four people in a drunken wreck was released from jail on Monday.
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The Mexican immigration institute says it has taken a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident to the Mexico City airport, to fly him back to Texas to face charges.
A judge has sharply reduced the bond of the mother of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense after killing four people in a drunken wreck.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Law enforcement officials say the mother of a fugitive teen who invoked "affluenza" as a defense in a 2013 fatal drunken-driving accident took $30,000 from a bank account and cut ties with the boy's father before fleeing to Mexico. Tonya Couch and her son Ethan Couch were arrested in Mexico last month after he missed a meeting with his probation officer. The bank withdrawal, and Dec. 3 phone call telling Ethan Couch's father he'd never see them agai...