JUST IN: Feds Agent Raid ‘SOULMATE’ as New Details Emerge in Lynette Hooker’s Disappearance
You can see the boat here behind me docked at the Fort Pierce Coast Guard station belonging to Brian Hooker and his wife Lynette Hooker. >> When federal agents step aboard a seized vessel in blue nitro gloves, pull items into Brown Manila evidence envelopes, seal them with chain of custody documentation and set up a processing table on a dock that investigation is no longer building towards something.
It has arrived at something. That is where the Lynette Hooker investigation stands right now. Following the seizure of Soulmate by the United States Coast Guard on May the 9th, 2026 confirmed by a source familiar with the investigation who spoke to Fox News Digital and independently reported by CBS News, which confirmed the vessel was on route to the United States when taken into custody.
Agents from the Coast Guard Investigative Service have now physically boarded that vessel and begun a full forensic examination. Sources on the ground at Fort Pierce reported that crime scene tape went up around Soulmate at the Coast Guard station. CGIS agents were observed removing items from the vessel in sealed evidence bags.
A processing table was established on the dock for cataloging materials as they came off the boat. Let me stop right there because I want to explain exactly what crime scene tape means in this specific context. It is not a formality. It is not administrative caution applied out of abundance. When federal agents designate a location as a crime scene and secure it with tape, they are making a legal declaration with real and lasting consequences.
They are establishing a controlled perimeter within which evidence will be collected and preserved according to the standards that courts require for admissibility. They are protecting chain of custody from the moment of collection through every subsequent stage of a potential prosecution. They are laying the evidentiary foundation that a case will ultimately stand on.
Soulmate is now officially, legally, formally a crime scene. This is confirmed across multiple independent public outlets. A source familiar with the investigation told Fox News Digital the vessel was seized by the Coast Guard. CBS News reported it was taken into custody while on route to the United States.
Prism News reported that taking custody of the boat moves the case beyond search and rescue questions and into the kind of evidence preservation that matters in a criminal inquiry. Brian Hooker has not been charged with any crime. His Michigan based attorney, Crystal Marie Hower, told Fox News Digital, quote, I would ask those watching to treat him the way you would want to be treated to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He has denied any wrongdoing consistently and completely. We carry that through every single thing we cover in this case. But the forensic facts unfolding at Fort Pierce today are the story and we are going to go through them piece by piece. Let us get into it. Before we get into what investigators are looking for on that boat, I need to address something that has generated genuine confusion across media coverage of this case.
Multiple commentators and outlets have referred to the FBI as the lead agency in this investigation. That is not accurate. This investigation is being led by CGIS, the Coast Guard investigative service, not the FBI, not state law enforcement, not the Bahamian authorities. Per CBS News, which obtained an internal Coast Guard memo earlier in this investigation, CGIS agents are sworn federal law enforcement officers who investigate violations of United States law, working closely with the Department of Justice. Their mandate
covers crimes involving United States citizens and United States flagged vessels in maritime contexts, including international waters and foreign jurisdictions. But what the official description does not capture is this. CGIS agents are maritime specialists. They know vessels the way FBI agents know buildings.
They understand precisely how a boat’s electrical systems operate and record data. They know how navigation logs are stored and retrieved. They know what a battery management system tracks and how to read its output. They know how satellite communication platforms create connection histories and where those records reside after the session ends.
They are not applying land-based forensic protocols to an environment they do not know. They are operating in exactly the environment they were specifically trained and built for. According to forensic scientist Joseph Scott Morgan, who spoke directly to Fox News Digital about this investigation, CGIS has the entire federal government at their disposal and can request assistance from agencies, including the FBI.
Per Fox News Digital, Morgan said it is likely investigators are looking for signs of quote large focal areas of blood, meaning copious amounts of blood or dried blood, and specifically whether there has been any effort to sanitize or clean the area. That is the forensic standard being applied to Soulmate right now.
But Morgan also said something that intellectual honesty requires me to address directly. He told Fox News Digital that investigators are not in an ideal situation, seizing the boat more than a month after Lynette Hooker went missing. He said, and I’m quoting him precisely, quote, “The more time trickles through the hourglass, all that stuff becomes degraded.
It becomes compromised.” So, that can be problematic. That is a legitimate concern from a credentialed forensic expert. Biological evidence degrades. Heat accelerates that degradation. Over 5 weeks have passed since the night of April 4th. The delivery captain and first mate were aboard during the crossing.
Other individuals may have accessed the vessel during its time on the mooring in Marsh Harbor. But here is what I believe significantly counters that concern. The most critical evidence on soulmate is not biological. It is electronic. Electronic data does not degrade the way biological material does. Logs do not fade in the heat. Timestamps do not wash away.
GPS records do not decompose over 5 weeks. It is the electronic evidence on that vessel that investigators are primarily focused on. And I am going to walk through each category of it in detail. Let me start with the detail that has been most significantly under reportported in mainstream coverage of this case. Because until recently, most people following this investigation had no idea that Soulmate had cameras aboard.
It does. Per sources with direct knowledge of the vessel’s equipment cross referenced against documented footage and photographs of the boat that have been examined throughout this investigation. There appears to be a security camera system installed under the bimin. For those unfamiliar with sailing terminology, the biminy is the canopy structure over the cockpit of a sailboat.
It is the shaded outdoor living area where people spend the majority of their time when on deck. It is where you sit with a drink in the evening. It is where you arrive when you come aboard from the dinghy. It is the first space your body occupies when you step onto your vessel. A security camera positioned under that biminy has a direct line of sight to the cockpit, to the companion way hatch that leads below decks, to anyone coming aboard, to anyone moving across that deck space toward the interior.
Now, let me explain precisely why this is potentially the most significant single piece of physical evidence in this entire investigation. Brian Hooker’s account of the night of April I 4th requires Soulmate to have been empty and completely unoccupied from the time he and Lynette left in the dinghy somewhere around 7:30 in the evening until Hopetown fire and rescue brought him back to the vessel on the morning of April the 5th.
That is the account he gave to Bahamian authorities. That is the account he gave on the recorded phone call with Blaine Stevenson on April the 7th. The call he did not know was being captured. That is the account he gave on camera to NBC, ABC, and CBS News the day after his release from custody. If that account is true, the camera under that biminy should show nothing after the time they left.
No motion, no people, no activity, dark cockpit, empty vessel. That is what the recording should contain if Brian is telling the truth. But if Brian and Lynette made it back to Soulmate, if the dinghy returned to the anchorage, if they boarded that vessel, if they were on it on the night of April 4th, that camera may have captured it.
And here’s the detail that transforms this from significant to potentially decisive. Modern security camera systems installed on live aboard vessels are there for exactly one reason, security. When the owners are away, they frequently upload footage to cloud storage automatically and continuously.
Which means that even if someone deleted footage from the camera’s local memory, even if someone wiped the physical device, the cloud record may already exist on a remote server. A server that CGIS can reach with a federal subpoena, a server that has been quietly archiving footage from a camera aboard a vessel on the night Lynette Hooker disappeared.
Think about what it would mean if that footage shows two people boarding Soulmate after 7:45 in the evening on April the 4th. Think about every statement Brian Hooker has made about that night. To every authority and every camera that has been pointed at him since April the 5th. Think about what a jury would do with that footage.
It would not challenge his story. It would end it. We do not yet know what that camera captured. CGIS is working to find out right now at Fort Pierce. Now, let me walk you through what I believe is the single most forensically rich category of evidence on Soulmate. And it is something that most coverage of this investigation has not yet explained clearly to the people following it.
Modern live aboard sailboats, particularly those equipped with sophisticated solar power systems of the kind Soulmate carried, use battery management systems to store and distribute electrical power throughout the vessel. These are not simple storage units. They are complex energy management systems that monitor every electrical draw, track the state of charge continuously, and in modern installations, log every electrical event with a precise timestamp.
Every event timestamped. Let me make that concrete for anyone not familiar with how these systems function. When someone turns on the galley lights, the battery log records it the time, the duration, the power drawn. When someone runs the freshwater pump to wash salt off their hands, the log records it.
When someone opens the refrigerator, the log records it. When the hot water heater activates because someone is about to shower, the log records it. When a device connects to the vessel’s charging system, the log records it. Per people with direct knowledge of Lynette’s habits and routines aboard Soulmate, including Carly Ellsworth, who spent time aboard the vessel with her mother.
In February of 2026, Lynette’s consistent habit when returning to the boat after a day on the water was to go below and shower off the salt. Every time, board the boat, go below, shower, get comfortable. It was her routine. If Lynette came aboard Soulmate on the night of April the 4th, and I want to be precise that I’m presenting this as a possibility, investigators are actively exploring, not as established fact.
Since Brian has not been charged and maintains his innocence, the battery log should reflect the electrical signature of two people returning home after a full day out on the water. Lights triggered, water pump running, hot water system engaged, devices connecting to the charging system. the unmistakable pattern of domestic life resuming aboard a vessel after a day away.
Per marine experts consulted in this investigation, Brian and Lynette replace Soulmate’s battery system with a new unit within the last couple of years. This is forensically significant because newer battery management systems come standard with comprehensive digital logging. They are not old-fashioned power storage cells.
They are data generating systems that keep a timestamped record of everything that draws electricity from them. They are in practical forensic terms diaries. There are two and only two scenarios for what that diary shows. Scenario one, the log shows nothing unusual after approximately 4:15 in the afternoon on April 4th, the time by which Brian and Lynette would have left for the Abico in background automatic systems only.
the refrigerator cycling, the billagege pump, processes that run without any human presence. That would be consistent with Brian’s account that soulmate sat dark and empty from midafter afternoon until morning. Scenario two, the log shows a pattern of human activity after 7:45 or 8:00 in the evening. Lights, water, hot water system, charging devices, the electrical signature of people living normally on their vessel after returning home.
That would directly contradict every word Brian Hooker has said about the night of April the 4th to authorities, to fire and rescue workers, to federal investigators, and to every national media outlet he has sat in front of since his release from Bohemian custody. There is no ambiguous middle ground here.
The log either corroborates his account or it demolishes it. It cannot be persuaded. It cannot be pressured. It cannot be convinced that its timestamps are wrong. It simply recorded what drew power and when. CGIS has that system. They have that log. And when the analysis is complete, one of those two scenarios will emerge from the data.
Not as a theory, as a fact. Let me now address the third major category of electronic evidence on Soulmate because I believe it is the one that if Brian Hooker has any real understanding of how this technology works, should be the thing keeping him up at night. Soulmate was equipped with a Starlink satellite internet terminal mounted high on the mast for maximum broadcast range.
Starlink is a satellitebased broadband internet service that provides high-speed connectivity to vessels even in remote offshore locations far from cellular coverage. It is the system that kept Brian and Lynette connected throughout 4 years of cruising. It is the system Lynette used to post their content.
It kept their phones and other devices linked to the world when they were at anchor in the Abacose. Per sources familiar with the vessel’s systems. The Starlink terminal was positioned high on the mass specifically to maximize its range, meaning any device approaching the boat would connect to Soulmate’s Starlink network before physically reaching the hull.
If Brian and Lynette were returning in the dinghy on the night of April 4th, their phones would have connected to that network as soon as they came within range. Both phones were active that evening. This is documented through communications captured in the investigation. Both also wore Apple watches linked to their phones.
The moment those devices connected to Soulmate’s Starlink network would have been logged with a precise timestamp. And here is the detail that makes this potentially the most important piece of evidence in the entire case. Starlink does not store its connection logs on the vessel. It stores them on remote servers, cloud infrastructure operated by SpaceX.
Those servers log every connection event from every terminal on their global network. And those servers are accessible to federal investigators operating under a Department of Justice subpoena. Which means this, even if Brian wiped every phone, every tablet, and every piece of local storage on Soulmate, even if physical devices were removed from the vessel or destroyed entirely, the Starling connection records showing precisely which devices connected to Soulmate’s terminal and exactly what time and for how long exist on SpaceX servers, waiting to be
subpoenenaed, waiting to be read. According to Kenneth Angorand, an adjunct professor of maritime law at the University of Houston Law Center, who spoke to Fox News digital about this case, United States authorities, including the Coast Guard, have jurisdiction to make an arrest if the evidence leads there, despite the incident occurring in Bohemian waters because the vessel flies an American flag.
That legal authority extends to subpoenas served on United States-based companies operating cloud infrastructure. Starlink is operated by SpaceX, a United States company. A federal subpoena served on SpaceX is fully enforcable. If those Starlink records show that Brian and Lynette’s devices connected to Soulmate’s network after 7:30 in the evening on April the 4th, and Brian’s account requires those devices to have been nowhere near Soulmate at that time, that digital trail cannot be explained away.
It is a server record. It has a timestamp. It does not have a version of events it prefers. It simply shows what connected when. I want to shift now to the question that sits at the center of everything this investigation is ultimately trying to answer. Because processing the evidence on Soulmate tells us what happened on that boat, but it does not by itself tell us where Lynette is.
And finding Lynette, bringing her home to her mother and her daughter is what justice for Lynette Hooker actually requires. The sea of Abico has returned nothing. Per every fisherman, every diver, every marine professional with knowledge of those waters who has been consulted throughout this investigation, the Sea of Abico is approximately 15 ft at its deepest.
It is clear water. It has been searched thoroughly from the surface, from below, and from the air. In the weeks since April 4th, nothing connected to Lynette has surfaced. Not a piece of clothing, not the bright green dry bag, not any personal effect. The Sea of Abico gives things back.
That is what local experts, fishermen, and divers all say. If Lynette went into that water under the circumstances Brian describes, something should have come back by now. Nothing has, which means if she is not in that water, she is somewhere else. and identifying where somewhere else might be has become a parallel track of this investigation driven significantly by community volunteers doing ground level search work across the terrain around the Abacos.
Let me walk through the current search areas. The first is Tahiti Beach and the Atlantic facing shoreline on the eastern side of Elbow K. More remote than the western side. Fewer tourists accessible by dingy from Aunt Pat’s Bay in approximately 10 minutes at low speed. Brian and Lynette spent the afternoon of April 4th at Tahiti Beach. They knew that shoreline.
They had been there that same day. In darkness, you go to places you already know. The second is a mangrove area on the northern end of Elbow Kay before the entrance to Hopetown Harbor. Mangroves present a specific forensic challenge and a specific forensic opportunity. remains can become entangled below the water line.
But cadaavver dogs perforensic experts consulted in this investigation can detect the oils released by decomposition as they rise to the surface of water bodies at a range of up to 30 ft. That range makes mangrove areas searchable in a way that open water is not. The third is Snapper Point Marina, the ruins of a resort destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
Brian and Lynette knew it. They visited it with Carly in February of 2026 and documented it on their social media, accessible from Aunt Pat’s Bay by water. Nathan, a community volunteer contributing ground level footage to this investigation, searched Snapper Point in a prior episode and found nothing conclusive.
The coral and limestone terrain throughout the Abacose makes deep burial extraordinarily difficult. The fourth in the area receiving the most concentrated volunteer search attention right now is the western shore of Lubers’s quarters. Lubber’s quarters is a small private key positioned directly between Elbow K and Marsh Harbor, sitting at the geographic center of the area where this entire investigation has unfolded.
Its western shore faces away from Elbo K on the leeward side of the wind, meaning it would have been relatively sheltered on the night of April 4th. A dinghy could reach those beaches in darkness without fighting the conditions Brian has described as having overwhelmed him on the other side of the island. The western shore of Lubers’s quarters is not frequented by tourists.
It is remote and per sources familiar with the hooker’s movements in social media history. Brian and Lynette may have previously explored those beaches by paddle board or dingy. Per drop deadad serious reporting. A resident on Lubber’s quarters, a man named Dean, who has a home facing Elbow K, has surveillance footage that may have had a direct line of sight to Soulmate’s anchor position for the duration of the night of April 4th.
That footage is part of what investigators are examining as they work to reconstruct what happened in that anchorage after 7:45 in the evening. Nathan’s footage from the western shore of Lobers shows the terrain clearly rocky, uneven limestone close to the surface throughout, consistent with what locals describe about the near impossibility of digging more than a foot or two before hitting rock, sandy patches near the water line, remote areas above the tide mark.
And Nathan has stated publicly that he is not finished. He intends to continue that search over the coming days and weeks. I want to be precise about what I am and am not saying. I am not stating that Lynette Hooker’s remains are at any of these locations. Brian Hooker has not been charged with any crime.
These are areas being searched because they are geographically consistent with what could have been accessible from Aunt Pat’s Bay in the dark hours of April 4th because Brian and Lynette were known to have knowledge of them and because they are remote enough to have remained undiscovered in the weeks since she disappeared.
searching them thoroughly is the right and necessary thing to do. I said I would address the concern that forensic experts are raising publicly. Let me do that now with honesty because the audience following this case deserves a cleareyed accounting of what investigators have working for them and what is working against them.
Per Fox News Digital, forensic scientist Joseph Scott Morgan was candid about the challenge CGIS faces. He said investigators are not in an ideal situation. He flagged the uncertainty of who may have been aboard Soulmate during the weeks it sat in Marsh Harbor. He said biological evidence becomes degraded and compromised over time and that the passage of time through the hourglass is quote problematic.
That is accurate. I am not going to minimize it. Biological evidence, blood, DNA, trace material degrades with heat and time. A vessel sitting in the Bahamas through April and May has been in exactly the kind of warm, humid conditions that accelerate that degradation. 6 weeks have passed since the night of April 4th.
The delivery captain and first mate were aboard during the crossing. The window for ideal biological evidence recovery has narrowed. That is the honest reality. Here is what I believe significantly outweighs it. Luminol. Forensic technicians using Luminol can detect traces of blood that have been cleaned, wiped, or degraded beyond what the naked eye can detect.
It reacts with the iron component of hemoglobin to produce a visible glow under ultraviolet light. Surfaces that have been scrubbed, bleached, or repeatedly washed can still reveal blood trace evidence under luminol. On fiberglass, the primary construction material of a vessel like Soulmate Luminol retains its capacity to reveal trace evidence weeks or months after the original event.
If blood was present on that boat and someone attempted to clean it, Luminol is the tool that will find what remains. the electronic evidence, as I have already walked through in detail, the battery management logs, the Starlink connection records held on SpaceX servers, the camera footage potentially stored in cloud systems, none of that degrades the way biological material does.
A timestamp in a battery log does not fade over 5 weeks. A server record does not decompose in the Florida heat. Cloud-based footage does not evaporate. The electronic evidence connected to Soulmate is either there or it is not. And if it is there, the 6 weeks that have passed since April 4th are irrelevant to its evidentiary value.
And then there are Lynette’s personal belongings. An aquamarine bathing suit coverup does not decay in 5 weeks. A royal blue Contraublic headscarf does not vanish from a boat cabin. An Apple Watch sitting on a charging cable does not disappear on its own. If those items are on soulmate items she was photographed wearing at the Abico Inn on the evening of April the 4th, items that Brian’s account requires to have gone into the sea with her investigators will find them.
No laboratory required, no forensic interpretation necessary. Their presence on that vessel when Brian’s story demands they are at the bottom of the Sea of Abico is a fact that speaks entirely for itself. The forensic clock that Morgan described is real, but the most decisive evidence in this case may be precisely the kind that does not answer to the clock at all.
Per MW, Carly Ellsworth posted a video on social media on May the 11th, the day after Soulmate arrived at Fort Pierce, in which she described her first Mother’s Day without her mother. She said, and I want you to hear her exact words because they carry weight. Quote, “It’s pretty hard right now to know that she’s not a text away anymore.
And last week was my birthday on Sunday. So, it’s been kind of a rough week, honestly. Let me stop on that. Carly Ellsworth’s birthday fell on Mother’s Day weekend 2026. She turned whatever age she turned this year without her mother, without answers. And per her own statement, without any update from the Coast Guard about the investigation that is supposed to be finding out what happened to the woman who raised her, she knew Soulmate had left the Bahamas.
She did not know the details. The investigation has been conducted with the confidentiality that active federal criminal cases require. That is legally appropriate and necessary. But it means that the people who love Lynette most are sitting in silence while federal agents work through evidence bags on a dock in Florida. Per military.
com, Brian Hooker’s Bohemian attorney, Terrell Butler, declined to answer questions about the seizure of soulmate, whether Hooker was cooperating with authorities, and whether he remains under investigation. That is a legal prerogative. Attorneys advise their clients not to speak and decline questions on their behalf.
That is standard practice. But Brian Hooker’s silence toward the people who love Lynette, not toward investigators, not toward the media, but toward her family is something that Carly has spoken about publicly and something that sits heavily in this case. Per ABC News, >> Lynette, and I never would harm Lynette, and I want to find Lynette.
>> It’s been 10 days. It’s been a long time. I don’t think I’ve ever been apart from her. Brian Hooker told reporters on April the 14th that his sole focus was finding his wife, no matter how likely or unlikely. Sole focus, his words. He said he was not leaving the Bahamas without her. He said it would take a higher authority to make him stop searching.
Within hours of saying that on camera, he was on a flight home. He has not, based on all available public reporting, made meaningful contact with Lynette’s mother or daughter since. He has not sat with Darlene Hamlet. He has not called Carly Aworth. He has not been the loudest, most persistent, most present voice demanding that investigators find his wife and bring her home.
That is not evidence of a crime. Brian has not been charged. His attorneys say he is innocent, but it is a documented fact. And it is the kind of fact that investigators notice, the kind that sits with juries, the kind that the people who love Lynette are living with every single morning. Carly is posting birthday videos and Mother’s Day messages on social media alone without answers.
Let me give you a precise picture of where everything stands as of today. Drawn from verified public reporting. Soulmate is at the Coast Guard station in Fort Pierce, Florida, officially a crime scene. CGIS agents are conducting an active forensic examination that will span multiple sessions across multiple days. Evidence has been removed in sealed documented bags.
The examination of the camera system, the battery management logs, the Starlink connection records, the navigation data, the communications equipment, and the biological surfaces throughout the vessel is underway. Per Fox News Digital, the Coast Guard declined to comment on the investigation specifics, citing its active status. Per military.
com, Brian Hooker’s attorneys have declined to address questions about the seizure or his cooperation status. Per CBS News, CGIS investigators have been actively conducting interviews with potential witnesses as the probe has intensified in recent days. The dinghy, the 8-foot boss hard hall at the physical center of Brian’s account of the night of April 4th, remains in Bohemian custody.
It should be released to CGIS immediately. It is a critical piece of physical evidence whose surfaces or lock pins, anchor system, and interior have not yet been subject to a full federal forensic examination. That needs to change. The Abico in surveillance video remains sealed under Bahamian investigative authority. Whether it has been shared with federal investigators is not publicly confirmed.
If it has not been, it should be transferred to CGIS without further delay. That footage holds answers to questions about timing and atmosphere that no other piece of evidence can provide. The ground search continues. Nathan’s search of the western shore of Lubber’s quarters is ongoing and will resume.
Searches of Tahiti Beach, the Hopetown mangrove area, and Snapper Point Marina have been conducted and are continuing. Per prism news, Carly Ellsworth on Mother’s Day said the family had received no update from investigators. That will change. The forensic examination of Soulmate will produce results. Those results will either support Brian Hooker’s account of the night of April I 4th or they will not.
When they do, the direction of this investigation shifts permanently in one direction or the other. Brian Hooker has not been charged. His attorneys maintain his innocence. The investigation is active, federal, and accelerating. Lynette Hooker has been missing for 38 days. Let me bring it all together. CGIS agents are inside Soulmate.
Crime scene tape is up at Fort Pierce. Evidence bags have been sealed and logged at a processing table on the dock. The most comprehensive forensic examination of the most significant piece of physical evidence in the disappearance of Lynette Hooker has begun. What they are examining includes a security camera system installed under the biminy footage that may exist not only on the physical device but on cloud servers accessible by federal subpoena which may have recorded whether anyone boarded soulmate on the night of April the 4th.
a battery management system that logged every electrical event on that vessel with precise timestamps, creating a forensic diary that either confirms Soulmate sat empty and dark all night, or proves definitively that it did not. a Starlink satellite connection system whose records exist not on the boat but on SpaceX servers accessible to federal investigators regardless of what happened to any physical device aboard that vessel showing every device that connected to Soulmate’s network and exactly when biological surfaces
throughout the hull the cabin the heads the galley surfaces that luminol and advanced forensic techniques can read even after weeks have passed and Lynette’s personal belongings the aquamarine bathing suit coverup the royal blue Contraublic headscarf, the Apple Watch items that have no business being on that boat if Brian’s account of the night of April 4th is true.
Per forensic scientist Joseph Scott Morgan speaking to Fox News Digital, CGIS has the entire federal government at their disposal. They can request FBI assistance. They can send materials to the Quanico laboratory for analysis. Every resource that federal law enforcement can bring to bear on a criminal investigation is available to the agents working through Soulmate right now.
Per maritime law professor Kenneth Angaran speaking to Fox News Digital, those agents have the legal authority to make an arrest if the evidence leads there, even though the underlying event occurred in Bahamian waters. The dinghy must be released from Bahamian custody to CGIS. The Abico in video must reach federal investigators immediately if it has not already.
The searches of Lubber’s quarters, Tahiti Beach, Snapper Point Marina, and the Hopetown Mangrove area must continue. Brian Hooker has not been charged. His attorneys say he is innocent. We say that every time because it is true and because it matters. And Lynette Hooker has been missing for 38 days. Her daughter spent her birthday and her first Mother’s Day without her, without answers, and without a word from the man who was the last person to see her alive. She was 55 years old.
She chose a life on the ocean because she wanted to. She documented every part of it, the storms and the sunsets and the sea turtles and the hard passages because she believed in what she was living. Her last caption said she was not going anywhere for a while. Her boat is a crime scene tonight and the people best equipped to find out what happened to her are going through it right now.
Piece by piece, evidence bag by evidence bag. We are going to be here for every result, every filing, every development that this investigation makes public. If you have any information connected to this case, about the night of April 4th, about the vessel Azura or its crew, about any of the search areas, about anything at all, please submit it through the CGIS tips application, anonymous, available on iOS and Android.
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