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Hope Solo arrested for DWI; lawyer says ‘story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest’
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U.S. ladies’s soccer legend Hope Solo was arrested in North Carolina on a DWI cost Thursday.
Solo was taken into custody in a Walmart parking zone in Winston-Salem and booked into the Forsyth County Jail.
Hope Solo of the USA prepares for a sport in opposition to Colombia within the ladies’s soccer first-round Group G match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Video games at Amazonia Enviornment Aug. 9, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The previous goalkeeper allegedly had two younger children within the automobile on the time of her arrest, but it surely was unclear whether or not it was the kids she had along with her husband Jerramy Stevens, in accordance with TMZ Sports activities.
Solo can be dealing with fees of resisting arrest and misdemeanor little one abuse.
Wealthy Nichols, Solo’s lawyer, launched an announcement on the previous goalie’s social media.
“On the recommendation of counsel, Hope cannot discuss this case, however she desires everybody to know that her children are her life, that she was launched instantly and is now at dwelling along with her household, that the story is extra sympathetic than the preliminary fees recommend, and that she seems ahead to her alternative to defend these fees,” the assertion mentioned.
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The 2-time Olympic gold medalist was arrested in 2014 in a home violence incident along with her sister and her nephew in Washington state. Nevertheless, the costs have been dropped in 2018 after a prolonged appeals course of.
On this Oct. 1, 2015, file photograph, Seattle Reign FC goalkeeper Hope Solo follows the motion throughout the second half of the NWSL soccer championship match in Portland, Ore.
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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 profitable Olympic gold in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. She was a member of the crew when the squad received 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 fallout from a match with Sweden.
Former USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested in 2014.
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Solo was the 2009 U.S. Soccer Feminine Athlete of the 12 months.