Early Thursday, Tonya Couch, the mother of apparent "affluenza" probation violator Ethan Couch, landed at Los Angeles International Airport, handcuffed and flanked by U.S. Marshals who had accompanied her on her flight from Mexico. Camera crews and photographers were waiting at baggage claim and asked questions as she was escorted to an unmarked Dodge Charger police car. "Tonya, what were you thinking?" one reporter called out. "People are going to want to know, what were you thinking?" Couch didn't say anything.
Mexico deported Couch for immigration violations, and Tarrant County, Texas, has issued a U.S. arrest warrant for her on charges that she helped her son break his probation by fleeing to Mexico. Ethan Couch, 18, was granted a three-day court injunction by a Mexican judge, and Richard Hunter, chief deputy for the U.S. Marshal Service in South Texas, said he doesn't expect the teenager to be deported for at least two weeks. Couch was arrested in 2013 after the truck he was driving drunk struck and killed four pedestrians and threw one of his passengers, paralyzing him and causing brain damage. A judge gave him 10 years probation after a psychologist testified that Couch suffers from "affluenza," or being so spoiled he can't tell right from wrong. Watch Tonya Couch face the cameras below. Peter Weber
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