A Texas woman accused of helping her teenage son flee the US in violation of his probation for killing four people while driving drunk arrived back in the US today after being deported from Mexico, news reports said.
Tonya Couch, whose son Ethan remained in custody in Mexico, was in the custody of US Marshals as she got off a flight in Los Angeles, NBC News, CNN and other US news outlets reported.
The two were arrested on Monday night in the Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta.
The younger Couch has filed an appeal to block his deportation.
His deadly accident occurred in 2013. He got probation instead of jail time for killing four people while driving drunk in Forth Worth near Dallas at the age of 16.
The light sentence triggered outrage, not least after a defense witness testified at his trial that Couch's affluent upbringing left him unable to distinguish between right and wrong.
