Hope Solo, a former star goalkeeper of the U.S. women’s soccer team, was guilty of impaired driving on Monday four months after he was found dead behind a car in a parking lot at Walmart in Winston Salem, North Carolina. I admitted. According to authorities, she has two children in her back seat.
In a news release, the Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office said her two-year imprisonment had been suspended except for 30 days. According to prosecutors, the terms of her ruling freed her from her prison time for 30 days in a direct rehab facility.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, during the two-year probation period, she must meet with a court-approved addiction expert and follow the additional treatment mandated by the court. She also had to give up her driver’s license, and she wouldn’t be able to drive her car until she regained her license, Release said.
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill said in an interview that as part of the plea bargain, two other charges of misdemeanor child abuse and resistance to civil servants were withdrawn.
“I underestimated what the destructive part of alcohol in my life was,” Solo wrote in a statement. Post On Instagram on Monday. “I made a big mistake. Easily the worst mistake in my life.”
Her legal team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday night.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Solo was discovered on March 31 by a police officer sleeping in a car with two children sleeping behind him while the car’s engine was running. .. Her police officer noticed a strong smell of alcohol and asked her to do her drinking test, but Solo refused, the prosecutor said.
She was arrested but refused to undergo a drinking test, the district attorney said. According to a news release, police officers obtained a blood sample investigation warrant and found that Solo had a blood alcohol level of 0.24. That’s three times the North Carolina statutory limit of .08. In addition, tests have shown that she has THC in her system, the prosecutor said.
Solo is considered one of the top goalkeepers in recent football history. Her two Olympic gold medals were awarded in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012. She won the 2015 World Cup in Canada. She won the Best Goalkeeper Award at the World Cup and the previous World Cup.
Still, she also became known for disturbing behavior that sometimes led to quarrels.
After the Swedish team defeated the US team in the Rio Olympics quarterfinals in August 2016, Solo criticized the Swedes for their defensive play tactics and called them “a bunch of cowards.” US Soccer responded by terminating the contract because of “acts that violate organizational principles.”
She also learned through news reports that Solo had discussed with police when her husband, former NFL tight-end Jeramie Stevens, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in 2015. Suspended for 30 days a year.
