Attorneys: 'Affluenza' teen to return to Texas within weeks

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck will return to Texas from Mexico within weeks, and his case will likely be transferred from the juvenile to the adult system, his attorneys said in a statement Wednesday.

A Mexican federal judicial official told The Associated Press that Couch's attorney in Mexico filed a document on Sunday seeking to lift the injunction that has kept the 18-year-old in that country.

Authorities allege Couch and his mom crossed into Mexico in December, as Texas prosecutors investigated whether Couch violated his probation after an online video surfaced that appeared to show him at a party where people were drinking.