An employee of a Mexican resort where Ethan and Tonya Couch hid from justice this month tells the Dallas Morning News that while the pair were staying there, the “affluenza” teen went to a strip club, spent more money than he had, and had his mother bail him out.

“They seemed like normal people, perhaps a bit too private,” Marina Meza, 46, who has worked at the Los Tules resort in Puerto Vallarta for more than two decades, told the News. “But that’s something you get used to: the idea that some people may be running from their past.”

Tonya Couch was deported on Wednesday. While being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, she was formally charged with Hindering Apprehension of a Felon. Bail was set at $1 million. According to ABC News, it’s not clear whether she’ll be extradited from California to Texas.

At Los Tules, the News reports:

Ethan Couch spent most of his time in their room, but he went out one night to a gentleman’s club.

That in itself wasn’t unusual. “A young man going to a men’s club? How normal is that?” Meza said.

Then a waiter and manager from the club came back with him to the hotel because he didn’t have enough money to pay his bar tab. Meza had to wake Tonya Couch to come downstairs and cover the bill before the club employees would leave.

“Then I found out about his past and thought that too was really odd,” she said. “He didn’t have enough money to pay the bar bill, and his mother had to bail him out.”

Two resort employees told ABC News that the Couches had a large-caliber revolver with them at the hotel:

Because they wanted to extend their stay and the hotel needed their ground-floor room for a disabled woman, the hotel employees say, they moved the Couches to another room.

The new guests found a gun inside the nightstand, the employees say. They immediately called the hotel and an employee picked up the gun and wrapped it inside a bathroom carpet and put it in a plastic bag, the employees say.

An official with the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to ABC News they received a photo of the gun found at the hotel from a hotel employee.

The next day, the hotel workers said, after being asked whether he had forgotten anything in the room, Ethan Couch retrieved up the gun without offering any explanation for its presence.

“We believe that, until the Mexican Federal Judge enters an appropriate order authorizing it, Ethan will not be returned to the United States,” Scott Brown and Wm. Reagan Wynn, attorneys for the Couch family, said in a statement Wednesday. “We are uncertain how long the legal process in Mexico will take or how it will ultimately be resolved.”

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