The chilling images of Hope Solo's arrest for drunk driving with her two children

The chilling images of the moment of the arrest of the historic United States goalkeeper, Hope Solo, who was found passed out at the wheel of her car with her two-year-old twins, come to light.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
03 November 2022 Thursday 11:36
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The chilling images of Hope Solo's arrest for drunk driving with her two children

The chilling images of the moment of the arrest of the historic United States goalkeeper, Hope Solo, who was found passed out at the wheel of her car with her two-year-old twins, come to light. The events took place on March 31, but now the images from the body cameras of the officers who arrested her have been revealed and allow the serious incidents of that night to be reconstructed in detail.

It all started when a passerby alerted the police that there was a woman who had been passed out for more than an hour behind the wheel of her vehicle in the parking lot of a North Carolina supermarket. The first officer to respond found Hope Solo asleep in the front seat and two two-year-olds in the back seat.

The former goalkeeper of the United States team until 2016 is woken up by the police, who ask her to turn off the engine of the vehicle and identify herself. She only repeatedly denies having consumed alcohol, although the agent assures that she gives off a clear smell of alcohol. She is erratic in her answers and she does not leave her phone, even making a call while the agent insists that he show her identification.

Hope Solo insists she was just "taking a nap" but still refuses to identify herself or give up her mobile. The tension grows and the two minors begin to sob in the back seat. The agents ask her to get out of the vehicle on her own feet and avoid being arrested in front of her young children, but they finally have to do it by force. The former player refuses to submit to a breathalyzer test, so she ends up handcuffed and taken to a police station to be arrested.

Tests at police stations confirm that Hope was only triple the allowed rate and also tested positive for marijuana. She is sentenced to one month in prison and charged with drunk driving, resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse.

The incident is one more in the long list of excesses and misconduct of the former goalkeeper of the best team in the world for more than a decade. Known for her hot temper, she had already been arrested in 2014 for assaulting her stepsister and her nephew while drunk.

Two years earlier, the police had to attend her own wedding with former American football player Jerramy Stevens, who got into a fight with several guests and with Solo herself, whom the police found bloodied when she arrived, opening a domestic violence complaint.

His complicated character also cost him his career. Despite winning two Olympic golds and a World Cup, being the starting goalkeeper for the United States, after several disciplinary sanctions, in 2016 her definitive episode would come. After the defeat of the American team against Sweden in the Rio Games, she Solo starred in some unfortunate statements in which she called the Swedish players “cowards”. The national team separated her from her and that same year she would end up leaving her club and retiring from football completely.