U.S. women’s soccer legend Hope Solo was arrested in North Carolina on a DWI charge Thursday as she was taken into custody in a Walmart parking lot in Winston-Salem and booked into the Forsyth County Jail.
The former goalkeeper allegedly had two young kids in the car at the time of her arrest, and because of that she is also facing charges of resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse.
Not long after the report surfaced, Solo issued a statement.
“On the advice of counsel, Hope can’t speak about this situation. She wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family,” Solo said through her counsel.
“The story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest and she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges.”
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The two-time Olympic gold medalist was arrested in 2014 in a domestic violence incident with her sister and her nephew in Washington state. However, the charges were dropped in 2018.
Solo played on the U.S. national team from 2000 to 2016, sharing in a World Cup victory in 2015 and winning Olympic gold in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London.
