Danton's
Agent Denies He Was "Acquaintance" NHL Player Wanted Killed -
Despite claims from law enforcement insiders that put him at Mike Danton's
apartment the night the "hit" was supposed to go down, Dave Frost
insists he was not the person Danton was afraid would "leave him" and
would tell St. Louis Blues management about his "drinking and promiscuity."
(Yeah, like the Blues would give a rats ass about that.) At right, a photo of
the only agent named
Dave Frost listed on the NHL Player's Association web page.
BadJocks Exclusive! Danton's Agent Has Checkered History in Hockey - Our
crack research team has uncovered a lengthy 1999 article by then Toronto Sun
sportswriter Steve Simmons that goes into great detail about the havoc Dave
Frost (then a coach/agent/manager) was creating in the Canadian minor league hockey system a decade ago. Is
he the real troublemaker in this whole "murder for hire" scam?
Ironically, mentioned in the article is a young player named Mike Jefferson--Danton's real last name before he changed it . . . while under Frost's alleged
control. Among other things, Frost is described as a cult figure, manipulative,
and controlling . . . even being accused of brainwashing the players under him.
Our favorite quote from the article comes from Rob Ciccarelli, owner of the Sarnia Sting,
who met Frost when Danton/Jefferson played for his team, "The guy is a lunatic. What worried me is he had a cult-like attraction for the player. I have never in my history seen anything like that. The kid (Danton) totally did everything that Frost said. It was shocking."
At one point, Danton was part of a four player "gang" that Frost
coached and managed and all lived with him in a hotel room when they played for St. Mike's Majors OHL team.
According to the article, after the 1993-94 season, the Ontario Hockey Association
wanted to suspend the ENTIRE Brampton junior franchise for what it described as "incredibly undisciplined and unruly play." The head coach
at the time--you guessed it--Frost.
In 1997, Frost pleaded guilty to assaulting one of his own players during a playoff
game while an assistant coach with the Quinte Hawks of the Metro Junior Hockey
League. The article goes on and on like this, which begs the question: What
the hell is going on here? Read
the entire article here. (See below for earlier stories.)
EARLIER:
Blockbuster: Gay Website Asks, "Did Ice Hockey Player Kill His
"Partner" to Stay in the Closet?" - Details
NHL "Murder for Hire" Update: Danton Cried, Didn't Want Male Acquaintance
to Leave Him After Quarrel - The
story of St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton--charged
last week for in a murder-for-hire scheme--gets stranger by the minute.
Fortunately, our friends at TheSmokingGun.com have the actual criminal
complaint filed against Danton, detailing the entire bizarre "Hit the
Hitman" plot. See if you can follow this: Danton calls a female friend and
tells her a Canadian hitman is in his way down from the Great White North to
settle some kind of debt and asks her if she knows anyone who can hit the hitman.
Her friend agrees to do it for $10,000, but here's the catch: Danton wants the
Canadian hitman murdered in his apartment and wants this guy to make it look
like a tag-team burglary gone bad! Turns out though that the "Canadian
hitman" is actually a live-in acquaintance of Danton's who quarreled with
him earlier in the week over his "drinking and promiscuity." When the
murder plot ultimately fizzled, the acquaintance/roommate called Denton (while
being taped by police) and asked why he wanted him killed. According to the
complaint, Danton broke down and cried, and said felt he was backed into the
corner and didn't want the acquaintance to "leave him." You
can read it all for yourself here. Trust me on this one folks, this one's
going to get a lot worse before it's over.
More Updates:
Woman
Charged in Plot Along With Danton Makes Court Appearance
- Katie Wolfmeyer, a 19-year-old nursing student, was freed on $100,000 US bail,
but ordered to wear an electronic monitor. Wolfmeyer is accused of conspiring with
Danton to hire a man to kill a male acquaintance of the hockey player's. (At
right, a photo of Katie Wolfmeyer as she left the
courthouse Monday.)
Click
here to view Wolfmeyer's official roster photo from the St. Louis Community
College Women's Volleyball Team.
Family of Woman Charged Along With Danton are "Stunned" - Uncle
sez "We can't imagine how anything like this could happen."
Danton's
Agent Says He Needs Counseling - According to his agent, Dave Frost, "Mike is
scared. He's still in a state where he doesn't actually understand what's happened. He's in desperate, desperate need of counseling, immediately. We're doing what we can to keep his mind-set as strong as we possibly can."
I
Fought the Ty Law: New England Patriots Star Flees Police, Doesn't Want to Be Touched
- New England Patriots cornerback Ty Law was arrested after he was stopped by
police, then allegedly ran away from them though a popular nightclub district.
At one point, the NFL star apparently told arresting officers "not to touch him because he is a professional
athlete.'' (At left, Ty Law's mug shot.)
NFL Arrest Bonus: Former wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins Oronde
Gadsden arrested on a DUI charge and for driving on a suspended license,
(Thanks to RJ for BOTH links. Dude!)
Coach
Gets Slap On Wrist for "Assault" on Parent - Ernest A. Clark,
former girls basketball coach at Dover High School, in New Hampshire received a
small fine that was suspended pending good behavior for an alleged attack on the
father of one of his players after a game earlier this year. However, the case
could still be re-opened after a videotape was given to the court that clearly
shows that the man who pressed charges against Clark, Joseph P. Gagnon, had displayed "exactly the kind of rage that we don't want at sporting events" and offered "extreme provocation" during the Dover-Exeter game.
Colorado
Football Sex Scandal Update - The young woman who accused a University of Colorado football player of raping her
back in 2001 now claims she did not pursue charges because she was intimidated by coach Gary Barnett.
More
Trouble for Texas HS Baseball Team - Just this month the Waxahachie High School baseball
team was disqualified from the Texas HS playoffs this season AND NEXT YEAR after a brawl during an April 2 game against Alvarado.
Waxahachie was already on probation for an incident involving its fans at a game
LAST SEASON. Now, four Waxahachie High School baseball players have been arrested on charges of sexual assault,
in an incident involving a 15-year-old girl that occurred at a party earlier
this month. For it's part, the only thing the school could boast about was that
the assault "did not occur on school property." Yes, that makes it
all better. (Link requires free registration.)
NHL
Murder-for-Hire Update: St. Louis' Danton indicted for plot to kill
#100! Wow! Last year we
didn't reach the magical 100 mark until the week
of June 15 . . . so we're nearly two months ahead of 2003's record pace when
BadJocks reported a total of 167 HS Coach Sex Scandals. Can we hit 200 by the
end of the year? Stay tuned. And now, on to our 100th High School Coach Sex Scandal of 2004: Damon Mark Carpenter, the girls' basketball coach at
Southern California's Fontana Kaiser High School for the past five years, was arrested on suspicion of having unlawful sexual intercourse
with a 17-year-old female student
at the school. (Thanks to reader Joven Hut for the link!)
#99! HS girl has sex with coach when she was 14. He got 10 years in jail, she's
getting nearly $50,000 from the Greenville County School District in South
Carolina because a judge agreed with her contention that the school didn't do
enough to protect her from Berea High School substitute teacher--and assistant girls basketball
coach--Michael Andrew Lindsey.
#98! New Mexico girls softball coach pleads guilty to four counts of criminal sexual penetration of a
minor after being caught
with a 14-year-old middle school player. In exchange, 50-year-old Raymond Martinez
gets five years' supervised probation, but must register as a sex offender and have no contact with the girl or her family.
Kobe Bryant
Update - Judge rules against Lakers star's the defense team, barring access to the medical records of the 19-year-old woman accusing the
Kobe of rape.
NHL Murder-For-Hire Update:
Danton's Agent
- Columnist Steve Simmons updates his 1999 article about accused NHL player
Mike Danton's agent, who may or may not have the been the person he wanted
killed. To read the original article, see link below. It's an awesome read!
Danton's
Father Now Says "I Sold My Soul to the Devil" When I Introduced Son to Dave
Frost - Mike Danton's father, Stephen Jefferson, now thinks it was a
mistake to put his son under the influence of hockey coach/agent Dave Frost back
when the boy was only 11. They signed a deal with the devil when Danton was only
15 and two years ago, someone (Frost?) convinced him to several all ties with
his family, even dropping the family name and taking Danton instead. Jefferson
now blames himself for his son's current troubles, saying "I fell in love with the thought of my son becoming a hockey player and I looked the other way. I put the full blame for this on myself."
Hooker
Charged With Stamping - No, it's not what you think: a rugby player in
the UK, Tani Fuga, has been banned for the rest of the season for stomping on an
opposing player during a game last week . . . which is odd because I thought
that's how you got points in rugby. Or am I thinking of dodgeball? Speaking
of dodgeball, I saw a preview for the movie "Dodgeball" starring Ben
Stiller and Vince Vaughn last weekend and I predict it will be the sports movie
of the summer . . . unless this Bobby Jones thing take off this weekend.
Problems
for Mexico's Olympic Boxing Team - Jorge Alfonso Montoya, 17-year-old
Mexican boxer, has been banned from the sport for life after he was accused of
hitting a fellow athlete in the face with a metal pipe at the national Olympic training
center.
Corruption
in Portugal's National Soccer League? Say It Ain't So! I know, I'm sure
all of you are as stunned as I was when I heard that news that police in
Portugal had arrested 16 referees and soccer executives-- including the chairman of the country's
league-- in a major corruption probe amid allegations of match-fixing, including
forgery. I'm not sure about you, but I may never look at European soccer the
same again.
After
Almost Three Years, Still No Charges in the Infamous "Banana
Up the Butt" Hazing Incident in New Hampshire - Remember the story
about the HS football player who claims that upperclassman dragged their testicles over his face, then pulled his pants down and tried to jam a peeled banana in his
rectum? It's sounds strangely similar to the Mepham Hazing incident from last
fall, but it's been almost three years since Matthew Weymouth, came forward to
say that older football players at Pentucket Regional High School in New
Hampshire were hazing him and other teammates in August of 2001. The lead
detective from the state police who investigated the case thinks three of the young men should have been charged with attempted sexual assault as a felony for one of the alleged hazing
rituals and that four or five other team members should have been charged with misdemeanors.
And yet, no charges at the local or state level have ever been filed in the
case. Fed up with waiting, Weymouth's mother plans to file a lawsuit against the Pentucket Regional School District.
Original
lawsuit story from January 2002.
Man Arrested for DUI on Scooter - Plus, a woman
arrested after robbing a gas station and leading police on a high speed chase
turns out to have taken her 6-year-old daughter with her on the crime spree. Details and more stories of stupidity at the DumbassDaily.com.
BadJocks Hazing Update: HS lacrosse players from
Glenbrook South in Glenview, IL caught paddling younger team members as part of a hazing ritual won't be expelled but must
instead complete a community service project.
David
Beckham Affair Update - The UK tabloid the "News of the World"
reported in its Sunday edition that soccer star David Beckham has confessed his passionate affair with
personal assistant and former lesbian, Rebecca Loos, to his devastated wife,
Victoria Adams Beckham, also known as Posh Spice. Will she forgive him?
Friends say Posh has privately confided to them that she is considering a "trial separation".
More Bad News - Third
woman claims affair with Becks.- Celina Laurie, a 27-year-old vicar's daughter,
now claims she had sex with Beckham on August 7, 2002, in a hotel in the Danish city of
Aarhus, after a Manchester United game there.
More
Discipline Problems for Penn State Football Team - Two Penn State football players have been suspended through the summer for their involvement in an on-campus melee, but quarterback Michael Robinson -- who needed 24 stitches after the fight -- will remain on the team.
#97 - Coach gets three years for year long
affair with 14-year-old. (She still won't be of age when he gets out of
jail!)
#96 - Robert Shawler, a California gymnastics teacher charged with 13 counts of child molestation, has resigned as a coach and part-owner of the Cal West Gymnastics
school.
HS Football
Coach Charged With DUI With Drunk Former Student in Car - Okay, it's bad
enough when a coach gets stopped for DUI. But if you have an underage former
student in the car with you who's also blasted, that's a new one. Vaughn Butler,
a football and basketball coach at Union Local High School in Ohio was arrested
for DUI driving back from a regional basketball playoff game in Athens last month.
Michael Vick is Gay? A hoax website is fooling people into
thinking NFL star for the Atlanta Falcons has come out of the closet. It's
actually quite convincing looking and a lot of people have e-mailed BadJocks
asking us to confirm it. Yes, we can confirm you're an idiot. Read
it for yourself here.
Soccer
Spitter Suspended for Six, Seems Sensible to Some, Surely Shows Sport
Still Sucks
Jayson
Williams Manslaughter Trial Update - Judge refuses to throw out the case against the former NBA star
despite prosecutors' failure to turn over photographs and notes on the shotgun that killed a limousine driver.
On the plus side, he did call it a "negligent" error and will allow William's
defense to reopen their case.
Ultimate Soccer Mom? Woman Forges
Court Documents So Transferring Son Can Play for New High School - How
far will a parent go to get their kid a college athletic scholarship? All the
way to jail, it would appear. Let me see if I can explain this: soccer mom Gladys Kay Prescott,
of Oklahoma City, had asked for an injunction against the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association
that would have allowed her son, junior Joseph Prescott, to play for Putnam City High School.
Joseph had transferred to Putnam last fall, his mother says, because it was
"a better school" but OSSAA had declared him ineligible for this
season. The injunction was also denied, but Mrs. Prescott somehow convinced
school officials a court document that appeared to grant her request and looked
official enough, so they allowed him to play. But upon closer inspection they
noticed a few minor problems: the judge who allegedly signed it has retired from
the bench; the words "approved by" were printed on the paperwork, along with the name of attorney Todd
Markum (he knows nothing about the case) and the court clerk's stamp and case
number appear to have been copied and then pasted on the forged document! Mom
now faces a second-degree forgery charge for her efforts and the school may have
to forfeit a tournament game for using an ineligible player. (Link
requires minor registration.)
