Before he violated his probation and fled to Mexico, Ethan Couch received about $200,000 in “residential care and support” for more than a year, with the state picking up most of the tab, according to costs outlined in court documents made available this week. 
 
 Couch’s case was transferred to the adult court system Monday, when he turned 19. He became known as the “affluenza” teen after a witness used the term during trial to describe the consequence-free life that prosecutors said Couch led as a result of having wealthy parents. 
 
 As a 16-year-old in 2013, he killed four people in a DWI crash and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation. 
 
 Judge Jean Boyd also ordered Couch to undergo rehabilitation at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, where his daily cost was $673, or about $20,000 a month, according to case documents. 
 
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 Couch’s parents, Fred and Tonya Couch, were found to be “financially unable to pay” for the full cost of their son’s stay, according to the documents. They were ordered to pay a monthly cost of $1,170 from February 2014 through the end of Couch’s stay in Vernon, the documents say. 
 
 Couch left the Vernon facility in November 2014. He was then placed in The Next Step Program in Amarillo at a daily cost of $103.08, according to case documents. 
 
 Couch’s parents were ordered by the court to pay for the full cost of Couch’s stay in Amarillo through February 2015, totaling about $11,000. 
 
 The district attorney’s office declined to comment on Couch’s treatment stints Tuesday because they occurred when he was in the juvenile court system. 
 
 Couch will receive the conditions of his adult probation from state District Judge Wayne Salvant, who placed a gag order on Couch’s case Tuesday. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the Tarrant County district attorney’s office said a hearing has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday. But Salvant’s court coordinator could not confirm Couch’s next court appearance. 
 
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 Couch has been held in the Tarrant County Jail’s maximum-security facility since Feb. 5. 
 
 His new probation conditions could include 180 additional days in jail. 
 
 Timeline: The case of ‘affluenza teen’ Ethan Couch 
 
 Judge Tim Menikos, who took over Couch’s juvenile case when Boyd retired, transferred Couch to adult jail. Couch had been in juvenile detention since Jan. 28, when he was returned to Fort Worth after evading authorities for more than a month in Mexico. 
 
 On Dec. 2, a video surfaced showing someone who looked like Couch at a beer pong party, which could have led to his probation being revoked. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, on Dec. 3, Couch’s probation officer asked him to come in for a drug test but he did not respond and did not appear for a scheduled meeting with the probation officer on Dec. 10. 
 
 Authorities found Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch, in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta on Dec. 28. 
 
 Tonya Couch faces a third-degree felony charge of hindering the apprehension of a felon. She was fitted with an ankle monitor and released on bail Jan. 12. She has not been indicted. 
 
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 Ethan Couch turned 19 on Monday, but there was no celebration. The convicted DWI killer spent the day alone, locked in a cell at Tarrant County’s most secure jail facility in downtown Fort Worth. 
 
 “No party, no cake, no ice cream,” said Terry Grisham, the sheriff’s spokesman. 
 
 Experts — and many members of the public — say the juvenile court system went easy on Couch after he killed four people and injured a few more while driving drunk one night in 2013. Then 16, he was sentenced to 10 years’ probation and ordered to spend time at a rehab facility — a sentence he’s now accused of bungling. 
 
 In December, a viral video surfaced showing Couch at a party where alcohol was served. While authorities were investigating whether he violated his probation, Couch missed his probation check-in and traveled to Mexico with his mother, Tonya. Both were arrested there and brought back to Tarrant County. 
 
 The next time he appears in front of a judge, he will be treated as an adult. 
 
 Here are five things to know about the Ethan Couch case: 
 
 His next hearing date has not been set. 
 
 Couch is expected to remain in the Lon Evans Corrections Center until Judge Wayne Salvant decides the conditions of his adult probation. Some news accounts said Couch would appear in adult court early next week. But court officials said Monday that the April 18 date was randomly generated by a computer and not official. Salvant will set the date. 
 
 Some have called for him to be sent to prison, but that isn’t likely — not this time around. 
 
 Allegations of misconduct during juvenile probation don’t transfer along with the juvenile’s case to adult court. Yes, Couch is accused of drinking at a party and fleeing to Mexico while on probation, but he was considered a juvenile when those violations allegedly occurred. As an adult, he can’t be punished for his behavior as a juvenile. Salvant could now require a jail stay of 120 days, but Couch would have to mess up once more to be evaluated for a prison sentence. Salvant also has the option of releasing Couch from his probation sentence and letting him go free. 
 
 Mother and son have the same judge. 
 
 Tonya Couch has met Salvant. She appeared in his courtroom in early January after she was charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive and extradited to the U.S. from Mexico. Salvant reduced her bail from $1 million to $75,000, but he ordered her to stay with her other son in Tarrant County and submit to drug testing, among other conditions. [Side note: Ethan Couch's father, Fred Couch, has legal troubles of his own. He's accused of impersonating a police officer in North Richland Hills two years ago. His next court date is May 13; Salvant is not handling the case]. 
 
 The dog is still missing. 
 
 A relative of Tonya Couch who posted about the dog in January said Monday that the animal has not been found. The SPCA in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, offered a $1,000 reward for Virgil, a half-shepherd half-wolf mix. The dog accompanied Ethan and Tonya to Mexico but went missing after authorities apprehended the mother and son on Dec. 28. 
 
 It isn’t always about Ethan Couch. 
 
 The families of the victims say they don’t want to be forgotten. Some sued the Couch family after the 2013 crash and have continued to attend hearings in Ethan Couch’s criminal case. Teenager Sergio Molina has been paralyzed since the crash. “People say we have to die to go to hell,” Molina’s mother said in February. “To me, I’ve already been there.” 
 
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 File - In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Ethan Couch is led by sheriff deputies after a juvenile court for a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas. Couch, a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense following... (Associated Press) 
 
 File - In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Ethan Couch is led by sheriff deputies after a juvenile court for a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas. Couch, a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense following... (Associated Press) 
 
 DALLAS (AP) — A Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck will appear Wednesday in adult court for the first time. 
 
 Ethan Couch, who turned 19 on Monday, will appear before a Fort Worth judge who could order more jail time as part of the terms of Couch's adult probation. Prosecutors and court officials declined to confirm the nature of the hearing, saying the judge has issued a gag order. 
 
 Couch got 10 years' probation in juvenile court for a June 2013 wreck that left four dead and two severely injured. He landed in jail after he fled with his mother, Tonya, to Mexico when a video surfaced online showing Couch apparently at a party where alcohol was being served. Drinking alcohol is a violation of Couch's probation. The two were apprehended in Mexico in December and brought back to Texas in January. 
 
 Here's a look at what could happen in Couch's case: 
 
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 ENTERING ADULT COURT 
 
 Couch is scheduled to appear Wednesday before State District Judge Wayne Salvant in Fort Worth. 
 
 He was transferred out of the juvenile system and into an adult jail in February. Salvant could now order him to spend up to 120 days in jail then finish the rest of his 10-year probation. If Couch were to violate his probation during that time, he could get up to 10 years in prison for each of the four people killed in the crash. 
 
 The jail time would not be issued for any violation of his juvenile probation, including fleeing to Mexico, but would be set as a condition of his adult probation. 
 
 It's not yet clear whether Salvant will make that decision Wednesday. An official in his chambers declined to comment, as did Tarrant County prosecutors. 
 
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 THE CRASH 
 
 Couch lost control as he drove his family's pickup truck after he and his friends had played beer pong and drank beer that some of them had stolen from a Wal-Mart. He veered into a crowd of people helping the driver of a disabled vehicle on the side of the road. Authorities later estimated that he was going 70 mph in a 40 mph zone. 
 
 The crash fatally injured the stranded motorist, a youth minister who stopped to help her and a mother and daughter who came out of their nearby home. 
 
 Couch was found to have had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit for adult drivers. 
 
 State District Judge Jean Boyd gave Couch 10 years of probation, a sentence that outraged victims' relatives and prosecutors who had wanted prison time. 
 
 Further sparking outrage was the contention of a defense psychologist, Dr. Dick Miller, that Couch had been coddled into a dangerous sense of irresponsibility by his wealthy parents. Miller used the term "affluenza," which has stuck with the case ever since. 
 
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 MOTHER FACING CHARGES 
 
 When the December video of Couch at a party surfaced online, authorities say Couch's mother, Tonya, arranged for the two of them to flee to Mexico. 
 
 They were found a few weeks later in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta. Ethan Couch appeared to have grown a beard and dyed his hair black. 
 
 Tonya Couch is charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon, with the possibility of two to 10 years in prison if convicted. She is currently under house arrest. 
 
 Salvant is also the judge in her case. 
 
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– Too rich to go to jail, too poor to go to rehab? In another twist in the Ethan Couch case, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that after lawyers successfully argued that the "affluenza" teen's privileged upbringing left him unable to tell right from wrong, the state ended up picking most of the tab for the rehab facility he was sent to instead of prison. According to court documents, Fred and Tonya Couch were found to be "financially unable" to pay the $20,000 a month cost of residential rehab at the North Texas Hospital in Vernon, and contributed only $1,170 a month, leaving Texas taxpayers to cover most of the $200,000 cost of his stay. Couch—who killed four people and severely injured several others in a DUI crash in 2013, when he was 16—has been behind bars since January, when he returned to the US after fleeing to Mexico with his mother following an apparent probation violation. He turned 19 in a maximum security prison on Monday, and a sheriff's office spokesman tells the Dallas Morning News there was "no party, no cake, no ice cream." His case is now in the adult system and he will appear before a judge Wednesday morning, who can either set him free or order him to spend another 120 days in jail before finishing his 10 years of probation, the AP reports. If he messes up during that time, he could find himself serving 10 years in prison for each of the four people he killed. (His mom is off the hook for extradition costs.)