Call for pizza led to ‘affluenza’ Texas teen Ethan Couch's arrest

A teenage fugitive from Texas known for using an “affluenza” defence is to be returned to the US, along with his mother, after a mobile phone used to order a pizza gave away their location in Mexico.

Dee Anderson, sheriff of Tarrant County in Texas, said Ethan Couch, aged 18, who was on probation after killing four people in a drink-driving rampage, and his mother Tonya had prepared to be gone a while, even dyeing Couch’s blond hair black, before being detained in the Pacific Coast resort of Puerto Vallarta.

“They had planned to disappear,” said Anderson.