A 19-year-old Missouri woman was acquitted Monday of charges she helped former NHL player Mike Danton hire a hit man in a failed plot to kill his agent.
The federal jury in East St. Louis deliberated more than three hours before clearing Katie Wolfmeyer in the scheme, which unraveled in April when the man recruited for the hit notified authorities.
Authorities said Danton and his agent, David Frost, had argued over Danton’s alleged promiscuity and alcohol use. Danton, fearing Frost would tell the St. Louis Blues’ front office about his behavior, decided to have Frost killed, authorities said.
Danton pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in July and will be sentenced Oct. 22. He did not testify during Wolfmeyer’s trial.
Prosecutors said that Wolfmeyer, of the St. Louis suburb of Florissant, put Danton in touch with acquaintance Justin Levi Jones, and Danton offered him $10,000 to kill Frost. Jones, a police dispatcher in Columbia, Ill., pretended to accept Danton’s offer but instead notified the FBI.
