Hope Solo: Ex-footballer arrested for drunk driving

Hope Solo
Ex-soccer player arrested for drunk driving

Hope Solo has scored in over 200 games for the US women’s national team.

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Former US soccer player Hope Solo is in trouble with the law again. She faces three charges.

The former goalkeeper of the US national soccer team, Hope Solo (40), has repeatedly come into conflict with the law. As reported, among other things, by the “New York Times”.the former soccer player and two-time Olympic gold medalist was arrested last Thursday (March 31) in a supermarket parking lot in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

According to the report, she is accused of three offenses that led to the arrest: drunk driving, defiance of state authority and child abuse. Solo was said to have been unconscious behind the wheel of her running car for over an hour due to alcohol consumption. Because the ex-athlete’s two-year-old twins were unsupervised in the back seat during this time, the police are also investigating child abuse. She was released shortly after her arrest.

That’s what Hope Solo says about the incident

On her official Twitter account Solo has spoken through her attorney about the incident. On the advice of her criminal defense, she could not go into detail. But she wanted to tell everyone that “her children are her life, she was released immediately and she is at home with her family”. It is also suggested that there is a good explanation for the incident that would put the allegations in a different light. “She looks forward to the opportunity to refute the allegations,” the statement said.

Solo was arrested in 2014 on allegations of domestic violence against family members. At that time, too, she was under the influence of alcohol and defied the officials, it said. However, the case was later dropped.

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