Ballbuster1
04-17-2004, 12:50 PM
Very Bizzare:
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/players/3219) was charged Friday in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme, the FBI said.
Danton was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Calif., after the Blues were knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a loss to the San Jose Sharks (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/teams/sharks) on Thursday.
According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Illinois, Danton and a woman tried to hire someone to kill an acquaintance of the hockey player.
Danton, 23, and the woman, Katie Wolfmeyer, 19, face federal charges of conspiring and using a telephone across state lines to set up a murder. It could not be determined where they were being held Friday night.
Blues spokesman Frank Buonomo declined to comment Friday, saying in a statement, "The matter is in the hands of law enforcement officials and the judicial system."
The Blues could not immediately put The Associated Press in touch with an agent or lawyer for Danton.
According to the criminal complaint, Danton told Wolfmeyer that a hitman from Canada was coming to kill him and asked her if she knew someone who would kill the person for $10,000.
Full story here:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/hockey/nhl/04/16/bc.hkn.lgns.bluesdantonarrest.r.ap/index.html
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/players/3219) was charged Friday in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme, the FBI said.
Danton was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Calif., after the Blues were knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a loss to the San Jose Sharks (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/teams/sharks) on Thursday.
According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Illinois, Danton and a woman tried to hire someone to kill an acquaintance of the hockey player.
Danton, 23, and the woman, Katie Wolfmeyer, 19, face federal charges of conspiring and using a telephone across state lines to set up a murder. It could not be determined where they were being held Friday night.
Blues spokesman Frank Buonomo declined to comment Friday, saying in a statement, "The matter is in the hands of law enforcement officials and the judicial system."
The Blues could not immediately put The Associated Press in touch with an agent or lawyer for Danton.
According to the criminal complaint, Danton told Wolfmeyer that a hitman from Canada was coming to kill him and asked her if she knew someone who would kill the person for $10,000.
Full story here:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/hockey/nhl/04/16/bc.hkn.lgns.bluesdantonarrest.r.ap/index.html