FORT WORTH, Texas – Authorities said on Thursday that “affluenza” teenager Ethan Couch will have to wait a day before facing his first court appearance in Texas following his deportation from Mexico.
Tarrant County Sheriff’s Deputy Ed Wiseman said the 18-year-old Couch is scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday in Fort Worth.
The judge will decide whether to continue to hold Couch at a juvenile facility, to book him in an adult jail or to let him go.
Authorities say Couch and his mother fled to Mexico last month, as Texas as prosecutors investigated whether he may have violated his probation in a 2013 drunken-driving wreck that killed four people.
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Couch was 16 at the time of the fatal wreck, so the case is being handled for now in juvenile court.
Couch was deported from Mexico and flown to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday morning.
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