Hope Solo Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated, Resisting Arrest & Child Abuse
Hope Solo is facing some very serious charges.
The 40-year-old former Olympic gold medal-winning soccer player was taken into custody and arrested Thursday (March 31) in North Carolina for driving while intoxicated (DWI), resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse, via TMZ.
“On the advice of counsel, Hope can’t speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest, and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges,” her counsel Rich Nichols said in a statement.
She was taken into custody in a Walmart parking lot off Parkway Village Circle in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and then to Forsyth County jail for processing.
She has previously been arrested for domestic violence, and was accused of berating a police officer in 2014, threatening to “kick his ass.” She also got in trouble for allegedly getting into a physical confrontation with her teenage nephew.
She is married to ex-NFL player Jerramy Stevens. They have twins who recently turned 2.
If convicted, she could face jail time.