Texas husband and his friend charged after wife drowns in lake during drunken Fourth of July boat day

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 about 9pm and never resurfaced.

Anniboli, another woman, and Kyle Dean MacMeekin, the driver of another boat alongside them, all jumped in to save her.

They couldn't find her in the water and 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 swam about three-quarters of a mile.

Divers with North Montgomery County Fire Department later recovered the missing woman's body about 11pm.

Game wardens with the Texas Parks and Wildlife began interviewing witnesses and arrested Anniboli and MacMeekin.

They were both charged with boating while intoxicated are being held without bail at the Montgomery County Jail.

Anniboli ran Funky Flamingo Shaved Ice in Magnolia, Texas, where he still lives, from 2016 after starting it with his ex-wife Mary, until it closed about two years ago.

He is now a business development specialist at Dahill and formerly also ran Turfco Landscape Management.

MacMeekin is a former college football star at the University of Central Florida, and now a project manager at SRG Roofing in Spring, Texas.

Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack ordered an inquest and had the woman's body sent for an autopsy. Her name has not yet been released.