Now the FBI Is Searching For the Infamous "Affluenza" Teen and His Mom
Ethan Couch—the infamous “affluenza” teen who killed four people while driving drunk—has disappeared, and so far not even the FBI can find him.
Couch, who was two years into the 10 years of probation he received for the crash, became a person of interest earlier this month when a teenage witness posted a video of him playing beer pong—a clear probation violation.
After that, Couch seemed to vanish. Authorities began looking for him after he missed a probation meeting right around the time the video came out, only to learn he and his mother, Tonya Couch, had disappeared.
On Tuesday, a Dallas judge issued an arrest warrant for Ethan, though it’s unclear how they’re going to serve it: No one has any idea where Ethan and his mom are.
“They had a good head start,” Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson told CNN this week. “My gut feeling says they’ve gone a long way, they have the money, they have the ability to disappear and I’m fearing that they may even be out of the country.”
Now, the FBI and the US Marshals service are stepping in to help the search. Anderson says finding the wealthy baby fugitive will remain a top priority.
“You can run, but you’re always going to be looking over your shoulder,” Anderson said. “We’re not going to give up. We’re going to come after you. We’re going to find you, wherever you are.”
