LOS ANGELES | Arrested and prosecuted for drunk driving and child abuse, the former star of women’s soccer in the United States Hope Solo said Friday by his lawyer that the facts of which he is accused were more benign than the title of the charges. let him think.
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“At the urging of her counsel, Hope cannot speak on this matter, but she wants everyone to know that her children are her whole life, that she has been released immediately and is currently at home with her family. , that the case is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest and that she is eager to be able to defend herself, ”wrote her lawyer, Rich Nichols, in a press release broadcast by the Twitter account of the ex-goalkeeper of the American selection.
Celebrity news site TMZ was one of several news outlets reporting on Friday that the 2015 world champion and two-time Olympic champion was arrested the day before in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and that She was facing charges for drunk driving, rebellion against an officer and misdemeanor child abuse.
Winston-Salem police have confirmed that the soccer player, whose real name is Hope Amelia Stevens, was arrested in the parking lot of a business in the city, according to local television station WGHP.
According to court documents, a bystander said Solo was “passed out at the wheel” of her car for more than an hour with the engine running. Her two children, two-year-old twins, were in the vehicle, in the back seat.
Solo, who is 40, has already had a run-in with the law. In 2014, she was arrested for hitting her half-sister and a 17-year-old nephew during a family gathering. At the time, she explained that she acted in self-defense and the case was dismissed.
