Mike Danton This is Me

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1. 1. STLtoday - Sports - Blues

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   Published on: 5/6/2004   Last Visited: 5/6/2004

   Mike Danton Agent: Danton was delusional, using painkillers | [more] STLtoday - Sports - Blues
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   Agent: Danton was delusional, using painkillers
   
   Associated Press 05/06/2004
   
   Blues Danton Blues forward Mike Danton
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   Blues forward Mike Danton was delusional and using painkillers and sleeping pills in the hours before he allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill an acquaintance, Danton's agent said.
   
   Several media reports, citing anonymous police sources, have identified agent David Frost as Danton's intended target.
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   I know what he (Danton) was thinking at the time."
   
   Danton remains jailed in Clinton County, Ill., near St. Louis. A hearing on Friday will determine if he will be eligible for bail.
   
   Danton pleaded innocent to federal murder-for-hire charges Tuesday. His trial was scheduled for July 20.
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   Danton injured his shoulder in February. Frost said Danton had been taking painkillers with frequency -- he described Danton as "eating pills." He said the player also took sleeping pills and used "Ultimate Orange," a legal energy-boosting supplement.
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   Frost also described an incident in the middle of the night when Danton awoke, screaming, having a nightmare.
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   The FBI's criminal complaint alleged that on April 14, Danton, through Wolfmeyer, tried to hire a hit man to kill someone who allegedly was threatening to go to the Blues with information about Danton.
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   The FBI's criminal complaint alleged that on April 14, Danton, through Wolfmeyer, tried to hire a hit man to kill someone who allegedly was threatening to go to the Blues with information about Danton.
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   Danton was arrested on April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks eliminated the Blues from the NHL playoffs.
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   Danton moved in with Frost at age 15, and legally changed his name two years ago to further distance himself from his family.
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   Danton's father, Stephen Jefferson, has criticized Frost for what Jefferson calls his controlling influence over Danton.
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   Danton's mother, brother and aunt attended the Tuesday court hearing, but Danton did not acknowledge them.

2. 2. STLtoday - News - St. Louis City / County

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   Last Visited: 5/3/2004

   Mike Danton
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   Blues hockey player Mike Danton, charged in a murder-for-hire scheme, arrived by plane at MidAmerica Airport near Mascoutah Monday morning and was immediately transferred to the Clinton County Jail in Carlyle by U.S. Marshals.
   
   He is scheduled to be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Gerald B. Cohn at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis. It will be Danton's first appearance in court in Southern Illinois since he was charged in the murder plot on April 16, more than two weeks ago.
   
   Danton will likely plead not guilty at the hearing. Officials declined to say whether lawyers will take up the issue of letting Danton out on bond.
   
   Danton and Katie Wolfmeyer, 19, of Florissant, were indicted April 22 by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to arrange a murder for hire and using a telephone across state lines to arrange it.
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   Danton was arrested April 16 in California, hours after the San Jose Sharks beat the Blues to eliminate them from the NHL playoffs. His attorney, Bob Haar, has said Danton also will plead innocent.
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   Federal authorities said that Danton, with Wolfmeyer's help, tried to hire a hit man for $10,000 to murder an unidentified acquaintance at Danton's suburban St. Louis apartment. Federal authorities said the men argued April 13 over Danton's "promiscuity and use of alcohol." Danton allegedly feared the acquaintance would talk to Blues management, potentially damaging Danton's career.
   
   Wolfmeyer was accused of passing a phone call from Danton to the would-be hit man, who pretended to go along with the plan, but actually went to Columbia, Ill., police; they in turn alerted the FBI.
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   Danton came to the Blues in a June trade from the New Jersey Devils, where he had been twice suspended for disciplinary reasons. This past season he had seven goals, 12 points and 141 penalty minutes, which tied him for most on the team.

3. 3. STLtoday - Sports - Blues

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   Published on: 12/8/2003   Last Visited: 12/9/2003

   The team's third line of Petr Cajanek, Mark Rycroft and Mike Danton accounted for three of the team's four goals against Nashville.
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   Ferguson was instrumental in the acquisition of all three, orchestrating Cajanek coming over from Europe, working with Rycroft at Worcester and pushing for the acquisition of Danton in a trade.