A young woman drowned and her husband was arrested after she fell into a lake during Fourth of July celebrations.
Shane Everett Anniboli, 44, was charged with boating while intoxicated after police found his wife’s body in the waters of Lake Conroe, north of Houston.
The couple were on a pontoon boat when she fell overboard at around 9pm and never surfaced.
Anniboli, another woman, and Kyle Dean MacMeekin, the driver of another boat that was next to them, jumped in to save her.
Shane Everett Anniboli, 44, was boating on Lake Conroe north of Houston on Thursday when his wife fell overboard and drowned.
Anniboli was charged with drunken boating after police found his wife’s body
They couldn’t find her in the water and the darkness, and soon lost sight of the other woman who also dived in to help.
Montgomery County Marine Police arrived and pulled MacMeekin, 29, and Anniboli from the water and continued the search.
Police used side-scan sonar to search the lake and found the other woman safe on a dock an hour later, after she had swum about three-quarters of a mile.
Kyle Dean MacMeekin, 29 (pictured with his girlfriend Aubrie Kurlin) dove in with another Anniboli woman to save Anniboli’s wife.
MacMeekin was charged with boating while intoxicated and is being held without bail.
Divers from the North Montgomery County Fire Department later recovered the missing woman’s body around 11 p.m.
Texas Parks and Wildlife rangers began interviewing witnesses and arrested Anniboli and MacMeekin.
Both were charged with boating while intoxicated and are being held without bail in the Montgomery County Jail.
Anniboli ran Funky Flamingo Shaved Ice in Magnolia, Texas, where he still lives, since 2016, after starting it with his ex-wife Mary, until it closed about two years ago.
One of the vessels believed to have been involved in the drowning after being towed into dock.
Texas Parks and Wildlife rangers began interviewing witnesses and arrested Anniboli.
He is currently a business development specialist at Dahill and previously also managed Turfco Landscape Management.
MacMeekin is a former college football star at the University of Central Florida and is now a project manager at SRG Roofing in Spring, Texas.
Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack ordered an inquest and ordered the woman’s body sent for an autopsy. Her name has not yet been made public.
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