Hope Solo sends message after arrest: ‘Our family is strong and surrounded with love’

Hope Solo defended herself and her parenting on social media Saturday after she was arrested on a number of expenses in North Carolina a day prior.

Solo was arrested in Winston-Salem at a Walmart car parking zone. Police mentioned she was based handed out behind the wheel of a car together with her 2-year-old twins inside. She was charged with driving impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor baby abuse.

She posted a message on her Instagram Tales after the arrest. She mentioned she’d have the ability to share what was occurring in her life on the time of her arrest “in due time.”

“Our household is robust and surrounded with love. Our youngsters are sturdy, clever, comfortable and vibrant, and we’re current day by day giving them the most effective life potential,” she wrote.

“… Within the meantime, our youngsters are having fun with the NC solar, consuming popsicles and taking part in on our property. “Life could be powerful, however these are really the moments that matter. I really feel blessed to have this sort of love in my life.”

Based on an arrest warrant, a witness noticed the 40-year-old former U.S. ladies’s soccer star handed out behind the steering wheel for greater than an hour with the automotive’s engine working and the 2 youngsters within the again seat. An officer who responded to the scene mentioned they may odor the alcohol and that she refused a subject sobriety take a look at, in response to the warrant.

Hope Solo speaks onstage through the Fortune Most Highly effective Ladies Subsequent Gen convention at Monarch Seaside Resort on November 14, 2017 in Dana Level, California.
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Solo’s authorized counsel, Wealthy Nichols, launched a press release on Friday.

“On the recommendation of counsel, Hope can’t discuss this example, however she desires everybody to know that her children are her life, that she was launched instantly and is now at house together with her household, that the story is extra sympathetic than the preliminary expenses counsel, and that she appears ahead to her alternative to defend these expenses,” the assertion learn.

The 2-time Olympic gold medalist was arrested in 2014 in a home violence incident together with her sister and her nephew in Washington state. Nonetheless, the costs have been dropped in 2018 after a prolonged appeals course of.

Hope Solo #1 of the USA appears on previous to the match towards Colombia at Talen Power Stadium on April 10, 2016 in Chester, Pennsylvania.  The USA defeated Colombia 3-0. 
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Solo performed on the U.S. nationwide crew from 2000 to 2016, sharing in a World Cup victory in 2015 and successful Olympic gold in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. She was a member of the crew when the squad gained silver and bronze within the 2011 and 2007 World Cups, respectively.

She left the nationwide crew following its 2016 exit from the Rio Olympics. She was suspended by U.S. Soccer for six months following the fallout from a match with Sweden.

Solo was the 2009 U.S. Soccer Feminine Athlete of the Yr.

The Related Press contributed to this report.