US Soccer Legend Arrested!

 

US women's soccer star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested at a suburban Seattle home on suspicion of assaulting her sister and 17-year-old nephew, but her attorney insisted that Solo herself was a victim in the altercation.

On Saturday, police were called the to the Kirkland home the Seattle Reign FC goalkeeper shares with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevans, about 1:00am.

According to a police report obtained by The Seattle Times, a male caller told 911 the 32-year-old was 'hitting people' at a family gathering.

'Officer arrived and immediately heard the sounds of the disturbance inside the residence,' the report noted.

'They entered and contacted several persons; one being Hope A Stevens (Solo) who appeared intoxicated and upset.'

Authorities said Solo's 17-year-old nephew and her sister had visible injuries.

'After receiving statements of the persons involved, Officers determined that Solo was the primary aggressor and had instigated the assault,' the report said.

Kirkland police Lt. Mike Murray said there was 'a big party going on at her house'.

'It was an out-of-control situation' Lt. Murray told The Times.

A telephone number listed for her was not accepting incoming calls Saturday, and the voice mail for a listing at the sister's home was full.

 

The sister was not identified by police, but in her memoir, Solo writes that she has a half sister named Terry.

Solo, 32, has won two Olympic gold medals for the US women's national team. She also plays with the Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League.

In 2012, she married former Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens. 

He was arrested just before their wedding for investigation of assault after a disturbance involving her, but he was not charged. Maybrown represented Stevens in that case.

Solo said soon afterward that there never was an assault and that she and her new husband were happy.

'It's unfortunate what the media can do to judge before the facts are out there. It's hard to see, but it's a hard truth, and it's part of life,' she said then. 'I'm happy. I'm happily married. I would never stand for domestic violence. I've never been hit in my life.'

Solo's late father, Jeffrey Solo, had two children, Terry and David, before divorcing his wife.

He then remarried and had Hope and her brother, Marcus.

In her 2012 biography, Solo: A Memoir Of Hope, she wrote of her tumultuous family relationships.

'My family doesn't do happy endings,' Solo said in the book.

'We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all.

'We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.'

Solo's father was also arrested for kidnapping her and her brother when she was seven.

Her parents had divorced the year prior.

She has previously spoken about how her dad picked her and her brother from their home in Richland, Washington - where they lived with her mother, Judy - to go to a baseball game in a nearby town.

However Jeffrey Solo continued to drive to Seattle, where the three stayed in a hotel for several days.

Hope and her brother believed it was a vacation, until their father was arrested at a bank.