Coast Guard divers arrive in Bahamas to search for missing American Lynette Hooker - BERITAJA

U.S. Coast Guard divers person arrived successful the Bahamas arsenic the agency resumes its hunt for missing American female Lynette Hooker, who vanished successful April aft her hubby said she fell from a boat, an charismatic said Tuesday.

The Coast Guard divers arrived successful Hopetown, and the hunt was expected to commencement Tuesday evening, a U.S. charismatic acquainted pinch the matter told Beritaja.

Hooker, 55, vanished connected April 4, and her husband, Brian Hooker, told authorities that she fell from a boat, officials person said.

Brian Hooker, 59, was initially arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force connected April 8 but was released from custody 5 days later without being charged.

He has said he did not harm his woman and has returned to the United States.

“I’ve ne'er harmed Lynette, and I would ne'er harm Lynette, and I want to find Lynette,” Hooker told Beritaja successful April aft he was released from custody.

Brian Hooker has said that his woman fell into the h2o during a dinghy thrust adjacent Elbow Cay connected April 4.

He said that his woman had the keys to the motor erstwhile she went overboard, and he paddled the vessel to statement and told personification what happened, who past contacted police, authorities said.

Brian Hooker has been cooperating pinch officials connected the investigation into Lynette Hooker’s disappearance, his attorney, Terrel A. Butler, has said.