Danton Information on The Smoking Gun

[ironman]

APRIL 19--Upset because his live-in male "acquaintance" was set to leave him, St. Louis Blues center Mike Danton hatched a murder-for-hire plot that failed when the supposed $10,000 hit man ran to the FBI. As a result, Danton, 23, was arrested last Friday (along with a 19-year-old female cohort) and charged with soliciting the murder of his roommate, who is not named in the below criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois. According to FBI agent John Jimenez, Danton and his roomie had fought over the hockey player's "promiscuity and use of alcohol," and the athlete feared his pal would go to "the General Manager of the St. Louis Blues hockey organization and ruin his career." To keep that from happening, investigators allege, Danton concocted a harebrained scheme that included a purported hit man coming down from Canada to kill him. (8 pages)

The full complaint is listed.

[ironman]

Wow.

The acquaintance threatened to leave Danton.

The acquaintance, to whom Danton had given custody of Danton’s residence …

On April 16, 2004, the acquaintance agreed to consensually record a telephone call with Danton. The acquaintance called Danton and asked Danton why he wanted to have him killed. Danton broke down and sobbed. Danton explained he felt backed into a corner and also felt the acquaintance was going to leave him. Danton did not want to allow the acquaintance to leave him, therefore decided to have him murdered.

[JK]

I saw this article posted over at BluesTalk:

Article

I thought this line:

"Dave Frost," said Steve Jefferson, Mike's father, "is the best thing to ever happen to my kid."

Was rather interesting given Mr. Jefferson's comments about David Frost in today's P-D.

[kjoe]

I listened to the first hour of Bernie's show at Monday evening. Frost has a long line of detractors and one thing he was criticized for was supplying alcohol for the teenage hockey players(including Jefferson-Danton) he had some sort of relationship with, business or otherwise. Four or five years ago.The targeted acquaintance was supposedly going to the Blues about alcohol and promiscuity. This makes me wonder if he was a target because of the danger he posed toward Frost. Not sure whether the volleyballer would feel strongly about protecting the agent who was the party supply manager, but these characters like Frost can be formidable in their ability to manipulate those they serve.

[Rdog3933]

First thing I thought of...Sheldon Kennedy.

the Dog

[Crackless McCracken]

This is all very confusing. When they say the acquaintence was going to leave him, do they mean leave him like stop being his agent, or leave him as in no more butt Yahtzee?