ROCKPORT, TEXAS (AP) -- A woman accused of helping her brother fake his drowning near Port Aransas so he could avoid prosecution on incest charges has been arrested.

Thirty-four-year-old Katherine Tate faces misdemeanor charges of perjury and giving a false report to an officer and a felony count of hindering apprehension or prosecution.

Tate was released from the Nueces County Jail today after posting bond.

Authorities allege she told them her brother, Larry James Tate Jr., disappeared while swimming in the gulf.

Officials spent two days looking for the man.

He had been accused in Fort Smith, Ark., of having a relationship with his teenage stepdaughter and fathering her children.

Larry Tate was found seven months later with his stepdaughter in Fort Smith, Ark., and arrested.

He pleaded not guilty in April to the incest charge and was ordered held without bond.

Katherine Tate faces six months to 10 years in prison and civil penalties and reimbursement for the cost of the search.

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