A police report said Solo was arrested Thursday in a downtown parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with driving while in trouble, resisting a civil servant and abusing minors. He has been released from prison and has a court date of June 28, the report said.
According to an arrest warrant, a passerby noticed that Solo fainted behind the wheel for more than an hour with the vehicle engine running and the two children in the back seat.
A responding officer could smell alcohol and the warrant said Solo refused to take a sobriety test and was given blood instead.
Rich Nichols, a Texas-based lawyer representing Solo, issued a statement Friday but did not answer specific questions about the charges and said his client would not answer either.
“On the lawyer’s advice, Hope can not talk about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her children 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 allegations suggest that she is looking forward to the opportunity to defend those allegations,” Nichols said.
Solo had a commendable, controversial career
Solo was expelled from the national team after the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, after calling the Swedish team “cowardly” because he took a defensive stance against the defenders of gold medals, ending a commendable career that was also marred by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and her husband Jeremy Stevens were pulled over in a truck belonging to American football and Stevens was charged with DUI. It was also stalled following a public outcry from coach Greg Ryan’s decision to launch Brianna Scari against Brazil during the 2007 World Cup, comments that many saw as slightly anti-Scari.
Solo also got involved in a family quarrel in 2014 that led to Solo’s arrest, although the charges in this case were eventually dropped.
Solo made 202 appearances for the national team, with 153 wins and an international record of 102 shutouts. He won a World Cup and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
During the 2015 World Cup, he conceded just three goals in seven games with five shutouts.
He was elected to the US Soccer Hall of Fame in January. The introductory ceremony is set for May 21st.
Solo married Stevens, a former troublemaker for the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2012. The couple has twins, Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, born March 4, 2020.
