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Tonya Couch, 48,
may be with her son, Ethan, 18, the Tarrant County Sheriff's
Office said in a statement. Ethan Couch is being investigated
for violating the probation imposed in the 2013 fatal crash.
Tonya Couch is listed as missing in U.S. national databases, the
statement said. The sheriff's office and U.S. marshals are
searching for Tonya Couch's missing truck, a black 2011 Ford
F-150.
A sheriff's spokesman said she may be in the company of a
fugitive and should be detained if located by law enforcement.
"We certainly believe that they are together," Sheriff Dee
Anderson told reporters. "We are going to prosecute her as fully
as we can if she helps him at all."
After a trial two years ago, Ethan Couch was sentenced to 10
years probation in a juvenile court for killing four people in a
drunken-driving crash.
A defense psychiatrist said Couch was suffering from "affluenza"
and was so spoiled he could not tell right from wrong. The
American Psychiatric Association does not recognize "affluenza"
as an illness and Couch's probation sparked outrage.
Police are checking reports that Couch may have left the United
States when he went missing this month shortly after a video
came out showing him at a beer-pong party, in a likely violation
of his probation.
U.S. Marshals are offering a $5,000 reward in exchange for his
whereabouts.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Bill
Trott)
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