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On August 19, 2014, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer, allegedly displaying a fake badge during a disturbance call, and was later found guilty and sentenced to a year of probation in December 2016. His parents-who divorced in 2017 -have also each had legal problems, publicized in the media following their son's conviction.įred Couch has previously been charged with evading arrest, theft by check, and assault against his then-wife Tonya, and was convicted of misdemeanor assault in 2000. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation, a compulsory alcohol awareness class, and 12 hours of community service. Īt the age of 15, Couch was cited for "minor in consumption of alcohol" and " minor in possession of alcohol", after he was caught in a parked pickup truck with a naked, passed-out 14-year-old girl. Couch then withdrew from Anderson and began attending a co-op based in nearby Watauga until age 15, when he enrolled in a community college. Couch drove himself to school at the age of thirteen when this was questioned by the principal his father responded by threatening to buy the school. Couch grew up in Burleson and previously attended Anderson Private School.

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Fred founded Cleburne Metal Works, a metal roofing company, in 1986, and Tonya was a nurse before her license was revoked in 2012. He was released a day later, pending an investigation into whether the positive test result for THC came from illegal marijuana or from cannabidiol oil. On January 2, 2020, Couch returned to jail for an alleged probation violation, failing a mandated drug test for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). On April 13, 2016, Couch was sentenced to serve two years in prison, and was released in 2018. On December 28, 2015, authorities detained Couch and his mother in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. On December 11, 2015, after a video was posted online purporting to show Couch drinking at a party, Couch became the subject of a manhunt, and was listed in the National Fugitive Database after attempts by his probation officer to contact him failed.

Couch's sentence, judged by many as outrageously lenient, set off what The New York Times called "an emotional, angry debate that has stretched far beyond the North Texas suburbs". Before sentencing, Couch's attorneys had argued that Couch had " affluenza" and needed rehabilitation instead of prison, arguing that Couch had no understanding of boundaries as his affluent parents had never given him any.

In December 2013, Judge Jean Hudson Boyd sentenced Couch to ten years of probation, subsequently ordering him to undergo therapy at a long term inpatient facility. Two passengers in Couch's pickup truck suffered serious injuries, with one passenger suffering complete paralysis.Ĭouch was indicted on four counts of intoxication manslaughter for recklessly driving under the influence. Four people were killed in the collision, and nine people were injured.

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Couch, while intoxicated and under the influence of drugs, was driving on a restricted license and speeding in a residential area when he lost control of his vehicle, colliding with a group of people assisting another driver with a disabled SUV. After fleeing to Mexico on probation violation, December 28, 2015Įthan Anthony Couch (born April 11, 1997) is an American who, at age 16, killed four people while driving under the influence on June 15, 2013, in Burleson, Texas.