Four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle with her two young children inside, former United States women's national team goalkeeper Hope Solo pleaded guilty to driving while impaired.
The child abuse and resisting a public officer charges were related to the March 31 incident. The two charges were voluntary dismissed, according to her attorney.
A judge gave a suspended sentence of 24 months and an active sentence of 30 days to a woman in Alleghany County. She received 30 days credit for her time at the facility. The fines and fee for the lab tests were imposed by the judge. She needs to get a substance abuse assessment and complete treatment.
It is 60 miles northwest ofWinston-Salem.
In a statement released after her guilty plea, she said that she made a huge mistake and that she took pride in how she and her husband dealt with their children during the Pandemic.
She said the worst mistake of her life would be fixed. I underestimated the damage alcohol had done to my life. Hard lessons are learned quickly when you make a mistake like this. Learning these lessons has been very challenging.
According to a police report, the woman was arrested in a parking lot. According to an arrest warrant, a passerby noticed a person passed out behind the steering wheel of a car with two children in the backseat.
According to the warrant, a responding officer could smell alcohol in the air.
Police obtained a search warrant for a blood sample after she refused to take a Breathalyzer test. The legal limit for blood- alcohol concentration is 0.08. According to the police report, tests showed that she had something in her system that was high in cannabinoids.
After calling the Swedish team "cowards" for taking a defensive stance against the gold medal winning team at the Olympics in Brazil, she was kicked out of the national team.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and her husband were pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving. She was benched after questioning the coach's decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil in the World Cup.
There was an altercation with family members in which Solo was involved, but charges in that case were eventually dropped.
The national team's all-time wins record was broken by the national team with 203 appearances. She was part of the team that won two gold medals at the Olympics.
She allowed just three goals in seven games during the World Cup.
She was voted into the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame. The ceremony was supposed to take place on May 21, but the newspaper reported that the ceremony would not take place that day.
Stevens was a former tight end for the Seattle Seahawks. The twins were born in 2020.
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