morning. reporter: the u.s. marshal service in recent days alettered mexican authorities that they had tracked down ethan couch. police near puerto vallarta moved in yesterday to make that arrest. they found the 18-year-old fugitive with his mother. breaking overnight, the so-called affluenza teen, ethan couch, captured in mexico, the state prosecutor s office releasing this photo to abc news, showing couch with noticeably darker hair, mustache and a beard. the manhunt ending when mexican authorities nabbed the 18-year-old along with his mother, tanya. nearly 1,000 miles from their hometown, detaining them both near the popular beach resort town of puerto vallarta. the mother and son duo on the lam for more than two weeks, leading u.s. marshals on a massive manhunt. couch went missing earlier this month and officers issued a warrant for his arrest after this video surfaced on social media. appearing to show couch playing
other place. what will happen is he will go before the judge, be detained initially and threaten there will be a hearing. his defense lawyers i m sure poppy will want the opportunity to have him get a second opportunity. this was a mistake. he was a young person. he was on the run. he was allowed to leave the country, right? no, he was not. but he did. there s a lot of explaining to do. whenever you run of course it started with the video which we saw which showed potentially they were playing beer pong. that s a violation because he was not supposed to be around alcohol, but it s explainable. now you leave the country, it demonstrates a consciousness of guilt and reinforces you were doing which we see there, playing beer pong. there are two issues he has to overcome, number one the video, number two the violation of it. and we should remember the judge has a number of options. it will not be the original judge who sentenced him to probation because that judge has since retired.
prosecution and our hope is they will be locked up for some time. this is shortly after video on social media appeared to show couch playing beer pong at a party and that would be a violation of his probation. couch made head lines two years ago when he only received probation for this drunk driving crash that killed four people. and his defense attorney argued the teen suffered from affluenza. thank you very much evan. couch, who was 16 at the time of the crash had a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit. the anger has to subside at some point. aking anner is a temporary emotion.
the 18-year-old fugitive with his mother. breaking overnight, the so-called affluenza teen ethan couch captured in mexico. this photo was released to abc news showing couch with noticeably darker hair, mustache and a beard. the manhunt ending when mexican authoritiy ies nabbed the 18-year-old and his mother tanya, detaining them both near puerto vallarta. the mother and son duo on the lam for more than two weeks leading u.s. marshals on a massive manhunt. couch went missing earlier this month and a warrant was issued after this video surfaced on video appearing to show couch playing beer pong at a party, a violation of the probation. at the time of his conviction, violation of his probation meant up to ten years in prison. texas authorities placed his mother tanya on a missing persons list as well believing
instead of jail time as i mentioned, he got probation. his attorney sold the judge on the idea that the then-16-year-old suffered from affluenza, that he s rich, spoiled and his parents didn t tell him the difference between right and wrong. fast forward to today, he and his mother appeared after this video surfaced allegedly showing couch playing beer pong. and if it s him, it could be a violation of his probation. not surprised by this. the father of a victim who survived that original crash and an attorney for others who did not, they talked to my colleague john berman. anger has to subside at some point. anger s a temporary emotion. and, you know, i try not to hang onto that, but i do feel like accountability hasn t been demonstrated yet. and i would still like to have some accountability because i need for my son, lucas, to see that there are consequences for bad decisions. do you have any updates right