EAST
ST.
LOUIS,
Ill.
—
A
center
for
the
National
Hockey
League’s
St.
Louis
Blues
during
last
season
pleaded
guilty
July
16
to
conspiring
to
have
his
agent
murdered,
authorities
said,
according
to
Reuters.
Mike
Danton,
23,
will
be
sentenced
Oct.
22
in
U.S.
District
Court,
Reuters
reported.
Court
records
show
that
Danton
made
calls
in
the
spring
to
his
girlfriend
and
asked
her
to
find
someone
to
kill
a
“hit
man”
who
he
said
was
pursuing
him
about
a
debt,
Reuters
reported.
Danton
allegedly
offered
to
pay
$10,000
and
planned
to
have
the
killing
look
like
a
burglary
gone
wrong,
according
to
Reuters.
The
intended
target
was
David
Frost,
Danton’s
agent,
roommate
and
mentor,
who
Danton
may
have
feared
would
tell
Blues
managers
about
his
drug
and
alcohol
use
and
break
off
their
relationship,
court
documents
show,
Reuters
reported.
Authorities
said
the
plot
originated
after
an
altercation
between
Danton
and
Frost,
according
to
media
reports.
Some
reports
indicate
the
two
were
lovers,
but
others
reported
the
strong
bond
between
the
two
is
limited
to
Frost’s
managing
and
advising
Danton.
SEATTLE
(AP)
—
A
third
young
man
who
was
being
sought
in
an
attack
on
a
man
outside
a
gay
bar
last
month
has
turned
himself
in
to
police
in
Bellingham,
authorities
said.
The
17-year-old
youth
was
arrested
late
July
14,
a
day
after
Seattle
police
working
with
the
U.S.
Marshals
Service
arrested
Vadim
Samusenko,
20,
and
David
Kravchenko,
19,
also
from
the
Bellingham
area.
The
victim,
Micah
Painter,
23,
a
personal
trainer
and
landscaper,
said
he
was
both
pleased
and
shaken
to
learn
of
the
first
two
arrests.
The
attack
shortly
after
1:30
a.m.
June
27
rattled
the
city’s
gay
residents,
many
of
whom
held
a
rally
last
weekend
and
heard
Police
Chief
Gil
Kerlikowske
pledge
to
bring
the
perpetrators
to
justice.
Painter
said
he
was
leaving
Timberline
Spirits
when
three
men
in
a
passing
truck
hurled
insults
and
one
asked
whether
he
was
gay.
When
Painter
replied
that
he
was,
one
of
the
men
allegedly
attacked
him
with
a
broken
liquor
bottle
and
the
other
two
joined
in.
PHILADELPHIA
(AP)
—
A
teenager
pleaded
no
contest
last
week
to
molesting
five
boys
—
but
pleaded
guilty
to
sexually
assaulting
five
girls
—
because
he
did
not
want
to
acknowledge
his
homosexual
acts,
a
prosecutor
said.
“Psychologically,
he
didn’t
want
to
admit
to
having
sex
with
boys,”
Assistant
District
Attorney
Gina
Smith
said.
A
judge
accepted
the
pleas
from
Lamar
Zamichieli,
19,
of
the
Frankford
section
of
Philadelphia
and
found
him
guilty
on
all
counts.
Zamichieli
grabbed
his
victims,
who
were
between
10
and
15
years
old,
as
they
walked
in
several
city
neighborhoods.
A
girl
attacked
after
school
on
her
12th
birthday
helped
police
break
the
case,
remembering
that
the
rapist
used
a
condom.
Police
found
the
condom
in
a
nearby
trash
can
and
gathered
DNA
evidence
that
linked
Zamichieli
to
the
crime.
The
first
attack
occurred
Feb.
23,
2003;
Zamichieli
was
arrested
the
following
month,
on
March
27.
SAUGATUCK,
Mich.
—
The
attorney
representing
two
gay
men
alleges
that
a
police
officer
would
have
ignored
the
sexually
suggestive
comments
and
whistles
from
the
pair
had
they
been
women,
the
Grand
Rapids
Press
reported.
Instead,
the
two
were
arrested
and
pleaded
no
contest
after
a
2002
confrontation
in
downtown
Saugatuck,
according
to
the
Press.
“Had
this
been
a
group
of
women
making
comments
...
I
would
imagine
the
officer
wouldn’t
have
come
up
to
them
and
talked
about
an
apology,”
Christine
Yared
told
the
Press
last
week.
The
attorney
for
the
Saugatuck-Douglas
Police
Department,
however,
said
the
two
men,
Mark
W.
Miller
and
Christian
Freeman,
directed
suggestive
comments
and
swore
at
the
officer
and
became
disorderly
during
the
incident,
the
Press
reported.
In
their
lawsuit,
the
two
allege
use
of
excessive
force,
false
arrest
and
constitutional
violations,
according
to
the
Press.
U.S.
District
Judge
Robert
Holmes
Bell
said
last
week
he
will
issue
a
written
opinion
on
the
defense
request
to
dismiss
the
suit,
the
Press
reported.
LONDON
—
Amnesty
International
reported
this
week
that
Buju
Banton,
a
Jamaican
dancehall
artist
whose
lyrics
incite
the
murder
of
gay
men
and
lesbians,
is
wanted
regarding
an
attack
on
four
Jamaican
gay
men,
Gay.com
UK
reported.
The
performer
was
identified
by
witnesses
as
one
in
a
gang
who
beat
four
gay
men
June
24,
media
reports
indicate.
Banton’s
real
name
is
Mark
Myrie;
he
has
had
a
series
of
hits
including
“Boom
bye-bye
(in
a
battyboy’s
head)”
that
include
homophobic
lyrics,
Gay.com
UK
reported.
The
group
Outrage!
has
campaigned
for
more
than
two
years
for
the
prosecution
of
anti-gay
Jamaican
singers
like
Banton.
“Critics
of
the
campaign
have
said
that
the
homophobic
content
of
his
lyrics
is
‘metaphorical’
or
just
‘fantasy,’”
Brett
Lock
of
Outrage!
told
the
media.
“Now
the
star
is
wanted
for
a
very
real
violent
incident.”
