Brian Hooker was arrested Wednesday evening in the Bahamas in connection with his wife Lynette Hooker’s disappearance. He has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing

Lynette Hooker and Brian Hooker.

Lynette Hooker and Brian Hooker.Credit : Facebook

The mother of an American woman whose husband was arrested this week in connection with her disappearance in the Bahamas says she is seeking answers as the search for her daughter continued.

Brian Hooker told officials that his wife, Lynette Hooker, fell off their eight-foot dinghy during a trip from Hope Town to Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after the couple left on the night of Saturday, April 4, taking the boat keys with her and causing the engine to shut off. He said he lost sight of her as strong currents carried her away, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement.

Brian Hooker was arrested on the evening of Wednesday, April 8, in Marsh Harbour in connection with Lynette’s disappearance and is being questioned, according to his attorney, Terrel A. Butler. He has not been charged with a crime, and a Coast Guard spokesperson told PEOPLE late Wednesday that a criminal investigation had been opened into the case. The Bahamas police have not responded to inquiries.

Butler also told PEOPLE that her client “categorically and unequivocally denies any wrongdoing” and rejected claims Lynette’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, has made to various media outlets questioning the circumstances of her mother’s disappearance and describing the couple’s relationship as volatile.

Lynette Hooker’s mother, Darlene Hamlett, told PEOPLE on Thursday, April 9, that she backed Aylesworth’s characterization of Brian and Lynette’s relationship.

“There has been previous violence,” she told PEOPLE, adding that there were at least two prior incidents involving Brian in which police got involved — in 2005 and 2015.

“Everything you’ve heard about him, he looks sweet as pie, but he’s not,” Hamlett added.

According to court records obtained by PEOPLE, a jury acquitted Brian Hooker of a misdemeanor child abuse charge in Michigan in 2006 stemming from an incident that occurred at his home in November 2005, in which he was accused of choking a female minor. A Kentwood police officer wrote in a forensic report obtained by PEOPLE that he had “observed light, linear red marks on the right side of her neck that could have been made in the manner described.”

In February 2015, Lynette Hooker was arrested on charges of assault and battery/simple assault, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE and first reported by NBC News. Lynette and Brian Hooker had accused each other of assault, with Brian claiming she had struck him in the face multiple times, a case report states. Only Lynette Hooker was arrested, records show. A warrant was denied due to “insufficient evidence as to who started the assault,” the report states.

Brian Hooker’s attorney declined to comment Friday, April 11, about the 2005 and 2015 cases. On Thursday, April 10, she told PEOPLE that what occurred previously has no bearing on what happened Saturday evening.

“He’s the only witness to what transpired, and he has said he has done nothing wrong, so to refer to allegations of abuse or a tumultuous relationship does not explain what happened on the day and indicate whether or not he was somehow culpable for anything that may have happened to her,” Butler said in an interview.

Brian and Lynette have been married for more than two decades and lived in Onsted, Mich.. They have chronicled their travels on their YouTube channel, “The Sailing Hookers,” which they started in 2011.