US football star and former RTÉ pundit Hope Solo arrested after being found passed out in car

Hope Solo (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio, File)

Former US women’s national team football star Hope Solo has been arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle with her two-year-old twins inside, police said.

A police report said the ex-goalkeeper was arrested on Thursday in a shopping centre car park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and charged with driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanour child abuse.