Federal officials join search for 'affluenza' teen

Associated Press ^ | Dec 17, 2015 6:49 PM EST

[Olog-hai]

The U.S. Marshals Service have joined the search for a teenager who was serving probation for killing four people in a 2013 drunken-driving wreck after invoking a defense that he suffered from "affluenza."

Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Thursday the search for 18-year-old Ethan Couch was drawing federal resources. The FBI says arrangements are being made for the bureau to join the search. ...

[Dallas59]

Should have been in prison in the first place. I hope there’s a shoot out when they find the killer. “Afluenza” my butt.

[headstamp 2]

This little POS needs to go to prison.

[SaveFerris]

Probably already over the border in Mexico or Canada.

[cardinal4]

TDC will eat this kid up and spit out the bones. His parents better be putting money away to pay the AB for his protection. The Walls is no place for spoiled little rich kid..

[PAR35]

They just need to put a big enough bounty on him.

[PAR35]

Don’t you think they are more likely to pay the staff than the other prisoners?

[Dallas59]

Good.

[petenmi]

Sounds like a candidate for “prison bitch”. Affluenza won’t go over very well in prison.

[Chode]

by time they knock all his teeth out and pass him around the joint for a pack of smokes, the punk will wish he was born black and poor

[Dallas59]

On Saturday, June 15, 2013, according to authorities and trial testimony, Couch was witnessed on surveillance video stealing two cases of beer from a Walmart store, driving with seven passengers in his father's Ford F-350 pickup truck, and speeding (70 MPH in a designated 40 MPH zone). Three hours after the incident, he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.24, three times the legal limit for adult drivers in Texas, and tested positive for Valium.

Approximately an hour after the beer theft, Couch was driving his father's truck at 70 MPH on a dark, rural road where motorist Breanna Mitchell's sport utility vehicle had stalled. Hollie Boyles and her daughter Shelby, who lived nearby, had come out to help her, as had passing youth minister Brian Jennings. Couch's truck swerved off the road and into Mitchell's SUV, then plowed into Jennings' parked car, which in turn hit an oncoming Volkswagen Beetle. The truck then flipped over and hit a tree. Mitchell, Jennings, and both Hollie and Shelby Boyles were killed, while Couch and his seven teen passengers (none wearing seat belts) survived, as did the two children in Jennings' car and the two people in the Volkswagen

[Ouderkirk]

He’s most likely in Costa Rica. No extradition. Where most “wanted” criminals expatriate to.

[Mouton]

If I were the parents of the two killed Mr affluenza would be MIA forever.

[goodwithagun]

So does the judge who ruled this crap.

[semaj]

"So does the judge who ruled this crap"

Ditto post #13

[Smokin' Joe]

If the parents have real money he could be anywhere in the world and be going by another name by now.

[Smokin' Joe]

Oh. Mom is missing, too.

Hmmmm.

[Mears]

He’s also a thief?

I did not know that.

They’ll find him eventually.

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[Frank_2001]

Maybe they should search in Mustique or the Cayman Islands! /s;)

[SaveFerris]

He might be hanging out with dude that disappeared the American girl in Aruba. Of course, he’s a little tied up right now. ;)