Hope Solo, the retired soccer goalie who gained the World Cup with the US Ladies’s Nationwide Crew, was arrested for an alleged DWI. Right here’s what we all know.
Hope Solo was arrested on Thursday in North Carolina, based on a police assertion given to HollywoodLife by the Winston-Salem Police Division. Officers with the division cuffed the retired soccer star “within the car parking zone of a enterprise situated at 3475 Parkway Village Circle in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.” Hope (aka Hope Amelia Stevens, 40) was charged with Impaired Driving (DWI), Resisting Arrest, and misdemeanor Youngster Abuse. The latter cost was attributable to Hope, who's married to former NFL tight finish Jerramy Stevens, having her and Jerramy’s twins – 2-year-old Lozen and Vitto – within the automobile together with her on the time of the alleged DWI.
“Ms. Stevens was processed and subsequently launched from the Forsyth County Legislation Enforcement Detention Heart. Based mostly on the upcoming prosecution, no additional info can be launched concerning this arrest,” stated the Winston-Salem Police Division’s assertion. Hope subsequently tweeted out a message from her lawyer, Wealthy Nichols: “On the recommendation of counsel, Hope can’t talk about this case, however she desires everybody to know that her youngsters are her life, that she was launched instantly and is now at dwelling together with her household.”
Hope’s lawyer additionally added that “the story is extra sympathetic than the preliminary prices recommend, and that she seems ahead to her alternative to defend these prices.”
Hope was arrested in 2014 over an alleged home violence incident in opposition to her sister and nephew. The previous soccer star was booked within the South County Correctional Jail in her Washington state dwelling, per the New York Submit. The costs have been later dropped in 2018 after the town of Kirkland decided that the incident was “unlikely to recur.”
The incident comes lower than a month that Hope gained headlines when she and Carli Lloyd vented concerning the US Ladies’s Nationwide Crew on her podcast, Hope Solo Speaks. “To be fairly sincere, I hated it,” stated Carli, per USA At the moment. “It wasn’t enjoyable moving into. It was just for love of the sport, actually, for me. I needed to win, and I needed to assist the crew, however the tradition throughout the crew was the worst I’ve ever seen it.”
“After I received fired in 2016, each time I left for camp, my husband Jerramy hated to see me unhappy,” added Solo. “I didn’t need to go to the social facet of camp. I needed to coach my ass off. I needed to work my butt off. I needed to play video games. However I didn’t need to be round everyone and the tradition of the crew. It was actually tough. I don’t suppose individuals perceive how tough emotionally and mentally that's.”