By Louis Casiano, NBC News
A judge granted the prosecution's request to put the father of a missing Iowa girl under pretrial supervision while he faces trial for drug offenses, The Associated Press reported.?
Daniel Morrissey, 36, is the father of 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey, who went missing with her cousin, 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins, while the pair were riding bikes near Meyers Lake in Evansdale, Iowa, on July 13.
Authorities said Morrissey and his wife, Misty Cook-Morrissey, 34, stopped cooperating with police as of Thursday. The AP reported that Black Hawk County Chief?Deputy Rick Abben said neither is considered a suspect and wasn't sure why they had stopped talking with police.?
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Cook's sister, Tammy Brousseau, told the AP the girl's parents felt like they were being treated as suspects. Both stopped cooperating after their attorney advised them to do so.?
Misty told the Des Moines Register Thursday that Daniel walked out of a police interview earlier in the week after police accused him of killing the two girls.?
"They've been cooperating with the police 100 percent, but because police don't have a silver Cadillac that tore off with the kids, they don't have no leads," she told AP.?
An FBI dive team, using sonar equipment, is searching the lake, but officials don't think the girls are in it, NBC station?KWWL?in Waterloo reported.?
Abben said a search last week using sonar yielded nothing, but told the AP that FBI sonar is?far?more advanced.?
Related:?Families of missing Iowa girls fear they were kidnapped
Authorities also have sifted?through trash, examined a laptop and computer, and dug into the parents' past criminal histories.?
Cook has a meth-related drug charge from 10 years ago and Daniel has multiple drug charges along with burglary and domestic?assault.?
The AP?reports?Daniel is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver conspiracy to?manufacture methamphetamine and other crimes.
The Register reported Morrissey's eight-year marriage to Cook has been rocky at times. The domestic?assault?charges stems from a 2011 incident where Cook told police he smashed her face into the floor and placed his knee over her neck, making it difficult for her to breath.
Brousseau told the station the pair had a no contact order with each other but has since been modified since both girls went missing.?
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