Ethan Couch Released From Jail Due To 'Weak Positive' Result On Drug Monitoring
We cannot tell whether the "weak positive" was caused by legal CBD oil or illegal marijuana," the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office said Friday.
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We cannot tell whether the "weak positive" was caused by legal CBD oil or illegal marijuana," the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office said Friday.
According to Tarrant County court documents, the monitor was removed Monday, almost one year after Couch was released from jail.
A Tarrant County judge released Tonya Couch on bond Thursday.
Tonya Couch will now await her trial on money laundering and hindering apprehension charges in the Tarrant County Jail.
Judge Wayne Salvant issued the warrant Wednesday for the arrest of Tonya Couch after she allegedly tested positive for amphetamine or methamphetamine, violating the terms of her release on bond.
Ethan Couch, the now 20-year-old who gained national notoriety when lawyers used an "affluenza" defense in his Intoxication Manslaughter trial, is now out of jail and free on probation.
'Affluenza Teen' Ethan Couch will be released as a free man. Also, crews are investigating a Dallas home explosion.
The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is calling the release of "affluenza teen" Ethan Couch a "grave injustice" after he killed four people while driving drunk at 16 years old.
Ethan Couch has served almost two years in jail for a revoked probation and is to be freed from the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth.
Tonya Couch, the mother of 'affluenza' teen Ethan Couch, was in a North Texas courtroom this morning.
Tarrant County prosecutors said they have even more reason why a judge should revoke Tonya Couch's bond and re-arrest her.
Tarrant County authorities are asking a judge to revoke the bond of Tonya Couch as she awaits trial on charges that she helped her son flee to Mexico to avoid arrest.
Affluenza boy Ethan Couch will remain behind bars after the Texas Supreme Court denies his request to have his two-year jail term invalidated.
Lawyers for a Texas teenager who used an 'affluenza' defense in a fatal drunk driving wreck have turned to the Texas Supreme Court in an effort to secure his release from jail.
The attorneys for affluenza teen Ethan Couch have asked the Texas Supreme Court to intervene in his case.
Fred Couch, the father of so-called 'affluenza' teen, Ethan Couch has a jury of his own to face this week.
Had the judge been removed from the case it could have lead to the teen's release from jail.
The teen whose lawyers used an "affulenza" defense during his Intoxication Manslaughter trial was back in court today. Attorneys for Ethan Couch filed a motion to have his juvenile probation judge removed.
Attorneys for Ethan Couch are trying to get the judge who sent the teenager to jail thrown off his case. The motion filed Monday follows a plea from Couch's team last month that the teen has been wrongfully incarcerated.
Lawyers for Ethan Couch have filed a new motion arguing that the 'affluenza' teenager should be released from jail, because the judge should not have had jurisdiction over the case.
The mother of Tarrant County's "Affluenza Teen" has now been released from house arrest, so she can get a job. And she already has one lined up as a bartender.
There is a new charge against Tonya Couch, the mother of 'affluenza' teen Ethan Couch. She is already facing a charge for hindering apprehension and now faces a charge for money laundering.
After being ordered last week to remain in jail for nearly two more years, Ethan Couch was transferred Tuesday out of Tarrant County's maximum security facility to a "less restrictive" location, according to Sheriff Dee Anderson.
The judge in the case of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has upheld an April order that the teen spend nearly two years in jail.
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