‘Affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch’s mum ‘paid for strippers’

THE “affluenza” brat who was too spoiled to go to prison partied a little too hard at a strip club while on the run from police.

Rich brat’s mum ‘paid for strippers’

THE “affluenza” brat partied a little too hard at a strip club in Mexico while on the run — and needed mum’s help to foot the bill.

The New York Post reports that Ethan Couch, 18, typically stayed inside his room at Los Tules, a resort in Puerto Vallarta, but one night, he decided to hit a gentleman’s club.

Hours later, he was escorted back to the lobby of the resort flanked by two bouncers from the club after he couldn’t pay his big bill.

Hotel workers had to go get his mum, Tonya Couch, who was sleeping upstairs.

“He didn’t have enough money to pay the bar bill, and his mother had to bail him out,” hotel worker Marina Meza told The Dallas Morning News.

Arrested ... Tonya Couch is taken by authorities to a waiting car after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. Picture: AP

Ms Meza added that she sensed something “odd” about the mother-son duo, who refused to complete hotel paperwork that required photo IDs and who paid the nightly fee of $80 in cash.

The Couches stayed in the room for nine days with their dog and “seemed like normal people, perhaps a bit too private,” Ms Meza said.

After the two were arrested on Monday, hotel workers found a large-caliber revolver that they said the Couches brought with them, according to ABC News.

Meanwhile, Tonya Couch arrived back on US soil early on Thursday, touching down at Los Angeles International Airport looking haggard in a navy-blue sun dress. She looked down, with her hands shackled behind her, as two US Marshals escorted her to an unmarked car.

As of Thursday night, she was being held in LA after Texas authorities charged her with hindering the apprehension of a felon and set her bail at $1 million.

Stay ... A woman walks past the compound of the Agujas immigration detention centre, where U.S. fugitive Ethan Couth is being detained in Mexico City. Picture: AP

Notably absent from her side was her son, who won a three-day injunction on Wednesday in Mexico after he was arrested following a weeks-long manhunt that ended on Monday.

Texas officials are anxious to get him back in the United States, hoping they can upgrade his case to adult court so he will face more charges after violating his parole following a 2013 DWI crash in which he killed four people.

Couch, who was 16 at the time of the crash, infamously was given a slap-on-the-wrist punishment of 10 years’ probation after claiming he suffered from “affluenza” — the alleged inability to understand the consequences of his actions because of his privileged upbringing.