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The head of a county elections board in North Carolina resigned after police said they found video of him hiding drugs in his grandchild’s ice cream. James Yokeley Jr., who led the Surry County Board of Elections in North Carolina, reportedly warned police officers that two teens found hard items in their Dairy Queen ice cream, according to a report from NC Newsline. The teenagers were his step-granddaughter and her friend. Video footage seen by Wilmington Police allegedly showed that Yokeley was the one who placed the small blue pills in the desserts. Field tests showed that the pills contained...

A Republican election official from North Carolina is accused of spiking his granddaughters’ ice cream with pills, according to officials. Sixty-six-year-old James Edwin Yokeley Jr. has been charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance and felony child abuse, according to a recent press release from the Wilmington Police Department. On August 8, Yokeley Jr. informed a police officer he flagged down at a Sheetz gas station that his two granddaughters found hard objects in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen, the release stated. Medical personnel checked the two girls and determined they had not ingested any...