St. Louis Blues hockey player charged...murder-for-hire scheme

[AP]

(04-16) 22:21 PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) --

A professional hockey player was charged Friday in an alleged plot to kill an acquaintance he feared could ruin his career, the FBI said

St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Calif., where the Blues were knocked out of the National Hockey League playoffs 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.

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