Too affluent to appreciate the gravity of his crime, doncha know.
The Tarrant County district attorney's spokeswoman confirmed to The Dallas Morning News Thursday the U.S. Marshals Service is involved in the search for Ethan Couch, 18. The FBI says arrangements are being made for the bureau to join the search as well.
Couch is wanted on suspicion of violating his probation by failing to check in with his assigned officer.
Suspicion? He failed to report and his probation officer went to his home address and found it vacant. He's gone.
On Tuesday, lawyers for Couch confirmed that authorities had issued the juvenile equivalent of an arrest warrant. Investigators are also seeking the boy's mother, Tonya Couch, with whom he had been living. On Wednesday, Anderson expressed concern that Couch and his mother had fled the country. Ya think?
On the night of June 15, 2013, Couch drove his Ford pickup into a crowd of people who were attempting to assist a stranded motorist . Two passengers in the pickup suffered serious injuries when they were thrown from the vehicle, including one who can no longer move or talk.
Couch's attorneys claimed at trial that his irresponsible lifestyle was due to wealthy parents who coddled him. The teen was sentenced to 10 years of probation and ordered to attend a rehab facility.
It's one of those times when you hate to say 'I told you so,' but I told you so," Anderson said. "I knew he was going to end up in more trouble."
Nah, he ain't in trouble no more. Mommy is protecting him in some tropical paradise that has no extradition treaty with the U.S. Maybe Libya.