Post by pavel on Jan 8, 2016 11:58:22 GMT -6
Sheriff shrugs off affluenza mom’s complaints about night in jail: ‘Not a resort’
FORT WORTH — Tonya Couch appeared in a Tarrant County courtroom Friday morning for the first time since authorities say she helped her son, Ethan, flee the country.
Couch, 48, is charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive, after authorities say she fled to Mexico with the so-called “affluenza” teenager while he was on probation for killing four people in a drunken driving crash in 2013.
Tonya Couch spent the night in the Tarrant County Jail after her return to Texas following her extradition, first from Mexico and then California.
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson, who was in the courtroom Friday with several sheriff’s deputies, said Couch “expressed a slight bit of displeasure about her accommodations.” She didn’t sleep much, he said.
Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/ethan-couchs-mother-appears-in-fort-worth-courtroom-for-arraignment-hearing.html/
FORT WORTH — Tonya Couch appeared in a Tarrant County courtroom Friday morning for the first time since authorities say she helped her son, Ethan, flee the country.
Couch, 48, is charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive, after authorities say she fled to Mexico with the so-called “affluenza” teenager while he was on probation for killing four people in a drunken driving crash in 2013.
Tonya Couch spent the night in the Tarrant County Jail after her return to Texas following her extradition, first from Mexico and then California.
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson, who was in the courtroom Friday with several sheriff’s deputies, said Couch “expressed a slight bit of displeasure about her accommodations.” She didn’t sleep much, he said.
Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/ethan-couchs-mother-appears-in-fort-worth-courtroom-for-arraignment-hearing.html/
