Prosecutors Confirm That Agent Was Danton’s Target

Mike Danton of the St. Louis Blues plotted for at least six months to kill his agent and tried on at least three occasions to hire a hit man, prosecutors said Friday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Massey confirmed for the first time that agent David Frost was Danton’s intended victim. Frost had repeatedly denied reports he was the target, and did so again Friday.

“If the government wants to hang their hat there, that’s up to them,” Frost said in a telephone interview. “I am absolutely positive I was not the target.”

During a detention hearing Friday, Massey said the evidence in the case “is strong.”

“We have multiple taped conversations where the defendant is speaking to the confidential informant, in which it is clear” that Danton was arranging a murder for hire, Massey said.

U.S. Magistrate Clifford Proud ordered Danton, who was arrested April 16, to remain jailed and set trial for July 20.

Frost has said Danton was delusional and was using painkillers and sleeping pills in the hours before he allegedly tried to hire the hit man.

Danton’s attorney, Bob Haar, had asked Proud to assign Danton to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and treatment of an injured shoulder.

Danton’s alleged accomplice, 19-year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, of suburban St. Louis, is free on $100,000 bond. Her trial is scheduled to begin July 13.

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Detroit Red Wing captain Steve Yzerman says he wants to keep playing despite surgery for a scratched cornea and multiple fractures below his left eye.

“I don’t know what the final point is going to be when I say that’s it,” Yzerman said. “But I’m not there.”

It was the first public comment from Yzerman since the surgery last weekend.

Yzerman, who was hit by a puck during a Game 5 loss to Calgary in the Western Conference semifinals, still has bruising, swelling and stitches under his bloodshot left eye.

“The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘I don’t want to lose my eyesight,’ ” Yzerman said of his initial reaction to the injury. “I really believe guys should be wearing [visors]. I didn’t say that a week ago, but if I play again, or when I play again, I plan on wearing a visor.”