Husband dies falling off back of golf cart with drunk wife behind the wheel, 2nd person arrested for telling her 'not to cooperate': Cops

A Georgia pistillate allegedly was conscionable a tick implicit the ineligible bounds arsenic she was driving a play cart astatine a Florida state nine erstwhile her hubby fell disconnected and aboriginal died.

Now 62-year-old Cynthia Mackin is facing a driving nether the power charge, jailhouse records show. Sgt. Dominick Mesiti of the Port St. Lucie constabulary told Treasure Coast Newspapers the incidental occurred astir 5:20 p.m. Saturday adjacent Astor Creek Golf & Country Club. Mackin was reportedly driving, arsenic her hubby Daniel Mackin was lasting connected the backmost of the cart.

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"He fell disconnected the backmost of the play cart and struck his head," Mesiti told the newspaper. "They were connected a sidewalk going to different … determination connected the play course."

Paramedics rushed the unfortunate to the infirmary wherever helium succumbed to his injuries. Cynthia Mackin allegedly had a humor intoxicant contented level of 0.09 — conscionable supra the ineligible bounds of 0.08. Cops took her to the St. Lucie County Jail wherever she has since posted a $500 bond. The Mackins unrecorded successful Greensboro, Georgia, which is astir 75 miles eastbound of Atlanta.

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Deputies besides reportedly arrested a 2nd idiosyncratic — 37-year-old Justis Morrison — for obstruction. Mesiti said cops were trying to analyse the incidental erstwhile Morrison reportedly interfered with them and was "yelling astatine the officers and telling the woman to not cooperate with the investigation."

He besides has since posted a $500 bond.

A probable origin apprehension affidavit that would item the events starring up to the clang was not instantly available. It's besides unclear if the suspects person obtained attorneys.

Detectives are consulting with the authorities attorney's bureau to find if further charges are necessary.