Before United States women’s national team Star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found unconscious behind the wheel of a car in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said.
A police report said Solo was arrested Thursday in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with impaired driving, resisting a public officer and abusing minor crime children. The report says she has been released from prison and has a court date of June 28.
According to the arrest warrant, a passerby found Solo unconscious behind the wheel for more than an hour with the car’s engine running and two children in the backseat. A responder could smell alcohol, and the subpoena said Solo refused a field sobriety test and had her blood drawn instead.
Rich Nichols, a Texas-based attorney who represents Solo, issued a statement Friday but did not respond to specific questions about the allegations and said his client would not pay either. word.
“On the advice of her attorney, Hope is unable to speak about the situation, but she wants everyone to know that her children are her life, that she was released immediately and is currently at home with her family, that the story is more pitiable than the original allegations suggested and that she looks forward to the opportunity to defend these allegations, ” Nichols said.
Solo was fired from the national team after the 2016 Olympics in Brazil after calling the Swedish team “cowards” for taking a defensive stance against the gold medal defenders, ending a career Praiseworthy playing career was also tarnished by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and her husband Jerramy Stevens were dragged into a truck owned by US Soccer and Stevens was charged with DUI. She was also left on the bench after publicly questioning coach Greg Ryan’s decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil in the 2007 World Cup, many deemed a bit of a disdain. Scurry.
Solo was also involved in a melee with family members in 2014 that resulted in Solo’s arrest, although the charges in that case were eventually dropped.
Solo has made 202 appearances with the national team, with 153 wins and an international record of 102 matches. She won a World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
During the 2015 World Cup championship, she only conceded 3 goals in 7 matches with 5 saves. She was elected to the United States Soccer Hall of Fame in January. The groundbreaking ceremony is set for May 21.
Solo marries Stevens, a former tight ending to Seattle Seahawks Football Team and Tampa Bay Buccaneersin 2012. The couple has twins, Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, born on March 4, 2020.
