Denis Preka Foundation

By Jack Springgate Updated on: November 11, 2024 / 6:41 PM EST / CBS Detroit (CBS DETROIT)  — The family of Denis Preka is calling on the attorney general's Office to move forward with criminal charges after their son died from drug intoxication after being given MDMA, also known as Molly, at a friends house. The family says the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office tried to cover up a major blunder while the case was being presented at the county level. Preka, 21, died in 2019.

Kara Berg The Detroit News Published: May 23, 2023 Oakland County prosecutors will ask a judge at a Wednesday hearing to vacate a Farmington Hills man's first-degree murder conviction in the shooting death of his nephew and resentence him with a second-degree murder conviction after two key witnesses recanted trial testimony. But the widow of the victim said she is troubled that Hayes Bacall's relatives and others with ties to his family have made political donations to Oakl

George Hunter The Detroit News Published: March 19, 2025 5:33 p.m ET More than four months after initiating an investigation, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office is still considering whether to file criminal charges against a man who allegedly gave drugs to a 21-year-old college student six years ago and posted the victim's groggy reaction — and death — to social media. As the case slogs through the criminal justice system, the victim's mother, Linda Thom, said s

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald - APA Marc Keast -Chief APA David Williams: Credit Detroit Free Press June 11, 2019: Swear to Judge Richardson Transcript Detective Balog : The autopsy revealed that Mr. Preka had died of drug intoxication and later found toxicology reports that the drugs that caused the death were MDMA and MDA. Through the investigation it was determined that he was provided those drugs MDMA and the MDA methylone, methylene by Nicholas Remington and w

By Jack Springgate Updated on: November 11, 2024 / 6:41 PM EST / CBS Detroit (CBS DETROIT)  The family says the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office tried to cover up a major blunder while the case was being presented at the county level. Preka, 21, died in 2019. He went to a friends house to study and asked for Adderall. Instead, his friend's gave him molly. Investigators say Preka suffered for hours, and during that time, his friends recorded his reaction to the drug and post

George Hunter The Detroit News Published 11:10 p.m ET Nov.12 2024 Novi — Snapchat messages are central to the rekindled investigation...

George Hunter The Detroit News Published 11:10 p.m ET Nov.10 2024 A couple's attempt to get justice for their son's death has devolved...

The family possesses evidence indicating that McDonald and Keast withheld critical information from Judge Valentine, resulting in Remington's release despite his status as a two-time convicted felon with a history dealing drugs. Remington, who confessed to 12 snapchat users for giving Denis "Methylone some moll" in a Snapchat message, had previously been held on a $1 million cash bond by three different judges who considered the evidence against him compelling. " The actions